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Life Magazine – December 26, 1918 (# 1887) – Peace rises in the East
$22.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Fair (Generally Good, but cover has mild scuffs and has a minor edge water mark)
Fair (All Good, but has mild cover soil)
Please tell me which you prefer.
2 in stock
Description
Cover : Wonderful night time scene of soldier standing guard in his own neighborhood, “Christmas Eve : where duty is pleasure,” art by Louis Fleming.
– Full page color ad for Postum (nice art of man looking in the mirror and thinking he looks old, not signed).
– Full page ads for Life’s prints, Locomobile (unusual ad with photograph of Premier Clemenceau and General Pershing at Versailles, photo by the Signal Corps), Life magazine subscription, Weed Tire chains (nice art of car bearing down on family holding unbrella on rainy day with wet roads), Timken bearings, Goodyear tires (with photo of tire with diamond tread), Franklin Automobile (art signed with a glyph in a circle, includes A and ch … do you know this artist?).
– Nice quarter page Arrow shirts ad, Donchester, with art that is probably by Leyendecker, man in evening dress sitting with elbows on knees and holding his gloves.
– Excellent half page art by Calvert of the Statue of Liberty dancing on her pedestal as Peace rises in the east, She’d do it if she could.
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H Walker (Dropping the pirate : with ackowledgments to PUNCH), F. T. Richards (December), Carl Anderson (Oyster Bay).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, The Stone Cutter, Father time engraving a headstone for Autocracy, style looks like charcoal over pen and ink).
– Small photos of fatherless French children: Baby 3064 Henriette Griel, Baby 2629 Renee Broussole and sister, Baby 2783 Gabrielle Sabater, Baby 1131 Madeleine Echenoz, Baby 2891 Charlotte Barreyre, Baby 2756 Simone Worre, Baby 3061 Renee Renoult.
– Some current events include : Many Americans did not want President Wilson to leave the country to participate in peace preparation talks in Europe, League of Nations, The Russians don’t want to be conquered, but they may not mind being assisted if they have confidence in the assistance, There is now $4 million in the Jewish Relief Fund, Polish pogrom stories, Red Cross fun drive called Roll Call.
– And much, much more.
