Life Magazine – December 2, 1915 (# 1727)

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Cover : Santa in his sleigh with his reindeer, art by Victor C. Anderson

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (An extra FAT issue with 95 pages)
– Half page artwork by Power O’Malley of Santa dropping a bomb down the conning tower of a German submarine, The better the day, the better the deed.
– Full page color ads for Victrola (art by Norman Price), Great Western Champagne (signed, but I don’t recognize, A. S. co), Great White Fleet (living the past in present day comfort), Aeolian Company (art by Clara Elsene Peck), Columbia Graphophone, Daniel Green felt slippers, Tuxedo tobacco, Cook’s Imperial champagne, Egyptian deities cigarettes (great art by CP), Heublein Club cocktails.
– Full page ads for Exide electric storage battery (with muscular man), White Rock mineral water, Old Hampshire Bond stationery, Johnnie Walker Whisky (art by Leo Cheney), New Edison phonograph, Oneida community silver, Havone cigarette cases), Western Electric Company, Velvet smoking tobacco.
– Full page color art by Calvert (Her surprise for Mother), Will Rannells (A tough proposition … boxer dog in plaid cap with cigarette).
– Full page art or cartoon art by R. M. Crosby (Preparedness), Charles Dana Gibson (You don’t mean to say, Estelle, that you are tired of settlement work?), Paul Stahr (It’s a wise boy that knows his own father … dressed as Santa), T. S. Sullivant (The first high power car), Unsigned (probably Irvin or Forbell : Just supposing), Angus MacDonall (Landscape format : Second-hand furniture), Charles Dana Gibson (And you went to the Panama Exposition on your wedding trip?), Angus MacDonall (landscape format : Pals), Bayard Jones (a combination in restraint of osculation), Charles Forbell (Willie’s nightmare after playing hookey for the first time), Charles A. Voight (The theorist).
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “Finishing touches,” little boy painting scribbles over his father’s landscape painting.
– Christmas 1915 by editor Edward S. Martin.
– Dogs and their heroes by E. V. Lucas.
– And much more 1915   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!