Life Magazine – March 25, 1920 (# 1951) – Toddler Cutting Her Hair

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Cover : Wonderful view of toddler cutting off her curls, self-done hair cut, “A rear view of what is going on at the front,” art by S. D. Runyon.

– Full page color ads for Chesterfield cigarettes (man looking out office window at city far below, art by Burton Rice), Rigaud Mary Garden beauty products, Mercer Motors Company (with yellow car with chauffeur and lovely art, signed but not a glyph I know, looks like a broken circle on two short legs),  Macbeth lens (car headlights, some color), Prudential Insurance (nice art of the Rock), Pierce-Arrow Motor Car company (nice art with red car probably by C. Cole), Victor Talking Machine (Homer).
– Full page black and white ads for Eveready Daylo flashlights and lanterns with tungsten batteries (that ominous sound, cat has broken milk bottle), Apperson Brothers Automobile company (landscape format, nice art with open car and cathedral), American Chain company (Weed anti-skid shains, The Gambler), Liberty Motor car company (Liberty Six, nice art, two women and car), Good Year Cord Tires (with photo of truck and statement from Paul F. Semonin, Peerless Manufacturing, of Louisville, Kentucky), Ruud Hot water heaters,
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (Sarah Sprigg’s just been arrested.  They found two jars of preserves fermenting in her cellar), Rodney Thomson (with poem by Richard Butler Glaenzer, The Old Beau), Emmett Watson (the house founded upon a rock, Washington capitol with the waves of anarchy pounding on it), J. Conacher (That man is worth twenty million dollars!).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, All ready for peace.
– Some current events include : People are going to Europe again, Book by Philip Gibbs “Now it can be told” about the war, Getting everything in order again after the war.
– Half page photo of Locomobile Touring Limousine.
– And much, much more.