Example image only. Magazine condition may be different.
Life Magazine – June 29, 1911 (# 1496) – 4th of July Number
$10.00 – $38.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Good
POOR (Generally Good, with a framable front cover, but back cover is missing a large corner chunk, inside pages have a thin and faint edge water mark).
Description
Cover : Life’s cherub dressed in military garb with head bowed over the grave of Wille who died at age 7 on July 4th, 1909, art by B. Cory Kilvert. I think this art is meant to pertain to kids killed playing with fireworks.
– FOURTH OF JULY NUMBER.
– Full page color ad for Williams’ Talc Powder.
– Full page black and white ads for Mercer Automobile Company (with great art of racing cars, two Mercer raceabouts), Packard Service (no art), Warner Instrument Company (Warner auto-meter, speedometer),
– Life’s family album about artist Otho Cushing with small photo of him.
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (June), Otho Cushing (two pages, No. 9 and 10 – Memoirs of Columbia, Lady Liberty), Bayard Jones (landscape format, ladies promoting a talk by Pinkhurst who has been in jail, a drunk lady approaches them, “Qualified to join : this lady has been in jail twenty times”), Herbert Johnson (Now the polo girl).
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, There are other coronations, zany busy artwork.
– Very cute 2/3 page artwork and poem by Orson Lowell of three young ladies watching the man they thought was wooing THEM propose to their attractive mother.
– Small photo of kids at Life’s fresh air camp in a parade with a big American flag.
– Some current events include : King George V is formally crowned King of Great Britain, Is British royalty worth the cost?, Mrs. Stowe of Litchfield Connecticut is 100.
– And much, much more.
