Life Magazine – May 1, 1919 (# 1905) – Soldier getting back to Regular Life
$28.00 – $48.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Very Good
Fair (All Good, nice!, but has minor and faint edge water mark)
Description
Cover : Soldier sitting in a tub reading Life magazine with the same cover as this issue, “Back to Life,” This is one of 2Neat’s favorite covers, art by J. F. Kernan. (Roll down for a really special story pertaining to this issue!!)
– Full page color ads for Murad Turkish cigarettes (with colorful art of three bejeweled ladies), Coca-Cola (no real art, but nice anyway), Velvet tobacco (with art by M. Leone Bracker of men playing dominoes).
– Full page ads for United States Railroad Travel (All wartime restrictions removed for vacation travel), Waltham Watches, Beeman’s gun, Mimeograph (with art by RFH of oriental woman), Fisk Cord Tires (super nice art of woman getting out of car as driver holds the door), Goodyear tires (with photo, gaining 4,000 miles), Studebaker Light-Six five-passenger car (with photo).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Oliver Herford (landscape format, crows chasing Bolshevik man and group of pigs), Charles H. Towne (I never saw anyone get so many wedding presents … she usually does), Charles Dana Gibson (Another bond between them, a liberty bond), F. T. Richards (April).
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, A Plague on both of your houses, Business unhappy with both branches of government.
– Some current events include : People want Mr. Burleson to leave office, Independent telephone companies are a nuisance, Peace Congress grinds along, Italy feels that she must have Fiume, Japan is worried that Japanese are not treated equally.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1919 content – fun!
READ THIS!!! Clive Coy, a treasured 2Neat customer, studies and collects the American Naturalist-Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, 1884-1960. Andrews spent his career at the American Museum of Natural History, NYC. Among his assorted exploits was a series of expeditions into Northern China and Mongolia 1916-1930. The best known results were the discovery of the fantastic fossil beds of the Gobi Desert.