Life Magazine – May 16, 1918 (# 1855) – Maxfield Parrish – Liberty & Armed Forces

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Cover : Lady Liberty holding playing cards representing the Armed Forces, “The Winning Hand,” art by Paul Stahr.

– Full page color ads for Fisk Tires (excellent red, black and green art by Maxfield Parrish, Fit for a King), Rameses cigarettes (week end tins), Eastman Kodak (The Kodak Letter, the star in the window tells the story).

– Full page black and white ads for Miller Rubber Company (Tiredom’s Great Feat – the uniform cord), Nujol for constipation, Victrola Victor Records, Republic Tires, McClure’s magazine (Down with the Kaiser!, art by W. T. Benda), Red Cross War Fund (Greatest mother in the world, art by Alonzo Earl Foringer).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days, Ye Lord of ye Manor … wife berating the Lord), Charles Dana Gibson (Portrait of an old gentleman who evidently has a nephew “over there” … handing money to a Red Cross nurse), Rodney Thomson (Ye have done it unto me, German soldiers being berated by God (?) over the corpse of a nurse they killed),

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Mardochee Halimi (Baby 2114), Suzanne Bissonier (Baby 857), Juliette Hauret (Baby 864, Odette Arnol (Baby 2150), Henriette Sparfel (Baby 215).

– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady (Forward! That the spirit of liberty shall not pass forever from this earth, Abraham Lincoln watching troops march on).

– Some current events include : Democracy has not yet reached its goal for airplanes, Liberty motors, Rumors of swindling and profiteering, French trainer Captain Heurtaux, Browning machine guns, Ships really seem to be coming along hopefully, Anti-British and anti-war activity of the Roman Catholic priests and bishops in Ireland and Quebec.

– And much, much more.