Life Magazine – January 5, 1911 (# 1471) – CARS!!

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Cover : Grim Reaper waving goodbye as young Mr. 1911 drives up, art by Lejaren A. Hiller.

– GASOLINE NUMBER (lots on cars and related topics) FAT ISSUE!

– THE BEST Life CAR ISSUE!

– Full page color ads for Locomobile (“30” Locomobile at Lismore Castle in Ireland), Peerless Motor Car Company (art at Pennsylvania Terminal in New York), White Company passenger cars, Olds Motor Works (lovely art of Oldsmobile car inside show room with crowds looking in, open green car with brass trim), Hupp-Yeats Electric cars (two pages, landscape format, nice winter scene art on one of the pages), United States Motor Company (no art), Carhartt Automobile sales Company (Hotel Plaza, New York), Baker Motor-Vehicle Company (same signature Camp ???, who knows this artist?), Hartford Rubber Works (The tire that lasts, Hartford Dunlop detachable tire, excellent art), Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company (with nice beach side art by P, Perfectly simple, simply perfect, G A Roadster), Hartford Suspension company (white, red and blue, Life in a motor car made doubly enjoyable), Hupmobile (two pages, very nice art with sunset sky, You’ve seen all the 1911 cars), Goodrich tires, Republic Rubber Company (STAGGARD tread, great art of car that skidded off muddy road while another is solid on road, artist initials CG), F. B. Stearns (15-30 H. P. Limousine, nice night time art), Diamond Rubber Company (manufactures and sells tire mileage, not merely tires, very nice unsigned art), Pierce-Arrow (at Nuernberg, great art by Ludwig Hohlwein).

– Full page black and white ads for Firestone tire and Rubber company (quick-detachable demountable rims), Electric storage Battery Company (Ironclad Exide battery, Columbia Motor Car company, Pompeian Massage Cream (those who motor should massage), Reo cars (R. M. Owen and Company), Stevens-Duryea automobiles (nice art), Hudson Motor Car Company (Hudson 33 Pony Tonneau), Packard Motor Trucks, Thomas B. Jeffery Company (Rambler closed cars), Haynes Automobile Company, Morgan & Wright Tires (Nobby tread tires), Corbin Motor Vehicle corporation (Corbin never wears out), Detroit Electric chainless cars (invitingly roomy), Peter’s chocolates (lovely art, man clapping for child carrying boxes of candy, signed but illegible), Baldwin Piano, Speedwell Motor Car Company (Speedwell Torpedo, with a photo!), James Cunningham cars, Abbott Motor Company, Goodyear tires, Life’s great auto race,

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Broughton (landscape format, The cycle of the months), F. T. Richards (two pages, 1910, a retrospect), Arthur T. Merrick (on the right road, 2IN1 1911), Otho Cushing (four pages, Memoirs of Columbia 5 and 6 and 7 and 8), Bayard Jones (two pages, The reality, the memory), Harry Grant Dart (Coals of fire).

– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady (The trophy room in Mr. McScorcher’s new five million dollar garage).

– Some current events include : Heavy expense of keeping up international peace, Secretary Dickinson tells us that we are absurdly unprepared for war and vulnerable to attack, Peace Maker of Oyster Bay (Teddy Roosevelt), Life after death, Fruitfulness of Yale marriages is declining, Bad drinking places near military posts in the Philippines.

– Half page ad for The California Limited railroad, Santa Fe, with art by Neysa McMein.

– “Mr. Carnegie has turned over ten million dollars to trustees, with a request to use the income to hasten the abolition of international war.”

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1911 content – fun!