Life Magazine – June 15, 1911 (# 1494) – C. Coles Phillips – Summer Girl

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Cover : Woman playing a mandolin by herself, “Without accompaniment,” fade-out art by the amazing C. Coles Phillips.

– SUMMER GIRL NUMBER.

– Full page color ad for Eastman Kodak (Woman taking a photo from the door of an electric car).

– Full page black and white ads for Wyckoff Church & Partridge truck (with Government of Uganda truck and Washington Quarry in Singapore truck), Life magazine (next issue : Coronation Number), Hupp-Yeats Electric Coach (The Patrician), Speedwell Motor Car company (with photo), Willys-Overland cars, Ainslee’s magazine.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Honeymooners : guess which one has honeymooned before), William L. Jacobs (The city boarder : playing the piano as everyone else in the boarding house watches. Landscape format.), William H. Walker (Saint Thomas the fortunate, vignettes in a stained glass window), Bayard Jones (Two beggars : one asking for love, one for money).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, About this time of the year the woods are full of them, young ladies in the countryside.

– Some current events include : No Democrat who has to get along with Mr. Bryan will ever be President, Commissioner of Immigration Williams needs to be removed by public office, Ellis Island is a place abounding in sorrow, William S. Gilbert is dead but not very dead.

– And much, much more.