Life Magazine – January, 1893 (# 523)

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Cover : An angel (?) with wings holding aloft the Life cherub who is holding a painter’s palette and brush, art by Albert Beck Wenzell.  Unusual color cover in a very deep blue with a shiny gold orb behind the cherub.

– JUBILEE NUMBER : The tenth anniversary of Life magazine.
– This is a very interesting issue, fatter than usual and with content unlike the typical.
– Two page centerspread artwork by Charles Dana Gibson, “Life’s Birthday.”
– Multi-page poem by Edward S. Martin titled “Retrospectively Speaking” about the first ten years of Life magazine.
– A page with photo and sample artworks for each of these well-known Life artists : Charles Dana Gibson, Francis Gilbert Attwood, S. W. Van Schaick, Wilson de Meza (AskArt lists as William), M. A. Woolf, W. A. Rogers, Alfred Brennan, F. P. W. Bellew (who signs as Chip), Charles Howard Johnson, C. Gray Parker, A. B. Wenzell.
– Full page ad for Pennsylvania Railroad tours, with excellent artwork of people on back porch of train car with wrought iron railing..
– Full page ad for the New Stern Brothers’ Building on 23rd street with impressive artwork of it.
– “How Life Began” by J. A. Mitchell.
– Humor in the form of many (probably made up) letters of congratulations from readers.
– Excellent artworks by many of the famous illustrators of Life.
– A long poem by M.E.W. and an editor’s note about her.
– Nice full page Columbia Bicycles / Pope Manufacturing ad with bicycle theme art by Sears Gallagher.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1893 content – fun!