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Life Magazine – February 17, 1898 (# 792)
$20.00
Magazine Condition : Good
Out of stock
Description
Cover : The Tammany Tiger with little babies Manhattan and Brooklyn, “How would this do for our new seal?, art by Albert D. Blashfield. Irish political control in New York.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry B. Neilson (2/3 page, Bound for Klondike, dressed bear family marching through snow), unsigned (Portrait of Emile Zola in pointillism), E. M. Ashe (So you’ve gone and got married), Hy Mayer (Worm’s eye views of us : a circus).
– Full page ads for Equitable Life Assurance Society and Prudential Insurance Company.
– Two page centerspread art by Albert D. Blashfield, February 14th, the real victim, man delivering firewood in blizzard.
– Some current events include : “Lots of people are at work all the time on the problem of getting money out of banks,” Loans versus Theft, Lawyer Mr. Joseph Choate says the American Bar has spotless honor, Collector Bidwell detected Signor Boldini (Italian portrait painter) in an illegal picture sale, Spain and Cuba.
– “As for the present style of ladies’ jackets, built loose over the digestion and restricted by a string at the waist, it must accord with general observation to point out that while these garments hang not ungracefully from ladies whose lines are mostly perpendicular, to more substantial ladies they are the unbecomingest garments that were ever sold at great price to undiscriminating buyers.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1898 content – fun!
