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Life Magazine – July 15, 1920 (# 1967) – Kite Flying
$16.00
Magazine Condition : Fair (Generally Good, but lower margin is a bit stiff from water, but not really discolored).
1 in stock
Description
Cover : Two little boys flying a kite from a grassy meadow above a seaside village as Conquistadors ride in the clouds above, “A Message to Dreamland,” art by Angus MacDonall.
– Full page ads for Michelin tubes to fit oversize tires (some color, small Michelin man next to huge tire cross-section), Heinz vinegars (color, with lovely art of woman making salad dressing with olive oil and vinegar, not signed), Clicquot Club Ginger Ale (Color, with good art of large Eskimo child in furs handing out glasses of ginger ale to tiny children in summer scene, not signed), Eveready Daylo battery powered lights (with photos and text pertaining to fires and saving lives with safe lights), Life magazine subscription (with art by and text about T. S. Sullivant), Hotel Pennsylvania (You’re invited out to the Kitchen), Addressograph (neat illustrated ad), Studebaker cars (nice art or photo, not signed), Warren’s Printing papers, Simmons Beds, MacBeth Green visor Lens (headlights for cars), Cole Motor Car company (nice art of grey car on green), Woodbury’s Facial soap (Color, with art, Tonight – try this treatment).
– Really cool full page color ad for Huyler’s chocolates with beach art by Frank Godwin.
– Full page art or cartoon art by J. R. shaver (very fancy makeshift raft = pirate ship in pond with lots of raggedy kids, “The terror of the Spanish Main.”), Angus MacDonell (Finding their latitude and longitude, embracing couple on deck of ship), Albert D. Blashfield (poem by A. G, art by Blashfield, Before the Wind), J. Conacher (Ye can call me sentimental if you like, Ed. I named her after the wife … man has named his boat “Mrs. Henry P. Morton).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Boys will be boys, Uncle Sam and British Prime Minister playing with boats in the pond.
– Some current events include : Democratic convention, Senator Reed of Missouri, Charley Murphy, Interchurch World Movement, Salvation Army has found the public to be unresponsive to its last call, Professor Gilbert Murray, Princeton’s Dr. Hibben said girls’ mothers put them up to experiments with a minimum of raiment.
– And much, much more.
