Life Magazine – June 21, 1917 (# 1808) – Joining the War

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Cover : Really cool perspective of two little kids on a balcony watching a patriotic parade pass by below, “Yankee Doodle,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Tires (art by Arthur N. Edrop), Ramses cigarettes, Pal Mall cigarettes (Inimitable).
– Not politically correct, but really well done tiny artwork by Paul Goold of cannibal following missionary ready to kill him, “Following a good example.”
– Full page black and white ads for Victor Talking Machine (Victor Supremacy), Republic Tires, Bull Durham tobacco (with photo of 8 officers at Camp Williams, San Antonio, Texas).
– Neat photo of group of girls at the kitchen door at Life’s Fresh Air Farm.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Rea Irvin (two pages, the honeymoon on ship), Charles Dana Gibson (The little bond holder), Angus MacDonall (landscape format, The fountain of youth, soda fountain).
– Small photos of French war orphans : Marcelle Mallet (baby 50) and her sisters, Emilienne and Eugene Hastey (798 and 799) with their mother, Yvonne de St. Denis (1006).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, “I can make it – I can break it,” artist in France creating beautiful works, German strong man smashing them.
– Some current events include : Lord Northcliffe from Great Britain; Foreign War News; “Commitment of our energies and resources to the rescue of mankind from the German Imperial government”; Call for a military Census Registrations for all persons between the ages of 16 and 50 (registration for the draft); Food Production bill.
– And much, much more.