Life Magazine – January 2, 1908 (# 1314) – 25th anniversary

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Cover : A montage of covers and other illustrations from the first 25 years of Life Magazine 1883-1908.

– 25th anniversary issue.
– This issue has a number of nice illustrated car ads including Cadillac (1/4 page),  Packard (1/4 page), Pope-Waverley Electric (1/2 page), Baker Electric (1/4 page), Brewster (1/4 page), Elmore (1/2 page), Rambler (1/4 page), Maya (1/2 page not illustrated), R. & L. Electric (1/4 page), Great Arrow (full page with color).
– Half page American Express travelers checks, cheques ad.
– Neat quarter page Boston Garter ad, sock garters.
– To Life 1883-1908, verse from a friend, Long Life Unto Life.
– Cartoons by Wm. H. Walker, R. M. Crosby, Albert D. Blashfield, Arthur T. Merrick, H. McVickar, Broughton, C. Clyde Squires, Rea C. Irvin, more.
– Full page artwork by Charles Dana Gibson (different style), To Those Who Have Gone.
– To Life on its Tenth birthday, by Julian Hawthorn.
– The Just-as-good-as man, by John Kendrick Bangs.
– How Life Began, Reprinted by Tenth Anniversary Number of Life 1983.
– Includes some reprints from January 4, 1883 (first issue).
– Some birthday gossip, by J. A. M.
– Life Loquitur, by E. S. Martin.
– Two page center spread cartoon by Wm H. Walker, “Our Birthday.”
– A number of cartoons feature the Life cherub.
– Life and the Spirit of Time, by Metcalfe.
– Full page cartoon by Harrison Cady.
– Sanctum Talks, by T. L. M.
– Full page Chickering pianos ad, illustrated.
– “We are such stuff as dreams are made of” – long piece, not signed.
– Quarter page ad for Iver Johnson safety automatic revolver (gun).
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1908 content – fun!