Life Magazine – December 3, 1914 (# 1675) – Stahr – Christmas, Santa and Poor

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Cover : Santa Claus holding empty gift bag behind his back and being beseeched by poor children, “The Empty Bag,” art by Paul Stahr, he may have just come from doing a house party at the rich house behind him.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (extra FAT issue with lots of color, 87 pages).
– Full page color ads for Fatima Turkish cigarettes (art by John H. Henrici), Victrola (art by Norman Price), Columbia graphophone (nice silhouette art, not signed), San Diego Exposition (two pages : art by Charles Daniel Frey), Great Western Champagne (art by E. W. Pirson), McCallum Silk Hosiery (not signed, man with bulldog), Reed & Barton Heppelwhite silverware, G. F. Heublein Club Cocktails, Cook’s Imperial champagne, Hamilton Watch Compapny, Daniel Green Felt Shoe company, Tuxedo tobacco, Great White Fleet, Pierce-arrow, Kodak.
– Gorgeous full page color Egyptian deities cigarettes ad with Santa smoking in front of fire, not signed.
– Full page ads for Johnnie Walker Whiskey (art by Leo Cheney), Detroit springs, Good Year tires, Westinghouse Electric appliances, Old Hampshire Bond stationery,
– Full page art or cartoon art by unsigned (Almost forgotten, Santa pulling up for a final child), Charles Dana Gibson (A girl in Tipperary), not signed (Treasure Island, boy reading hair-raising story in bed), W. O. Wilson (Police Officer Dugan : Here’s where Oi make a sneak, it’s me own landlord … boys throwing snow balls at a man), James Montgomery Flagg (two pages PLUS several more partial pages : Life’s pictorial history of the United States), Hermann Carl Wall (two pages : Looking forward, looking backward), F. T. Richards (November), Harrison Cady (Where are the makers of the toy soliders), Gordon Grant (You’re an awful old fake, Santa, but we like you just the same), R. W. Manning (Light)
– Full page color art by Calvert, “The price of a joke,” pilgrim carrying a lighted Jack-o-lantern is shot by an Indian.
– Full page color art by Bert Sharkey, “Who’s afraid?”, puppy and two kittens meeting at bowl of milk.
– A plea to Santa Claus by John Kendrick Bangs.
– Christmas Music, by G. K. Chesterton.
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson (I believe), “A modern generation,”  Santa standing with gift bag in undecorated room and two uninterested children reading.
– And much more 1914   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!