Life Magazine – May 20, 1909 (# 1386) – College Number

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Cover : Man and Woman embracing, this lovely artwork shows them as the trunk of a fruiting tree, art by the excellent John Cecil Clay.

– COLLEGE NUMBER (much humor related to education).
– Full page color ads for Coca-Cola (with art of a really cool early soda dispenser), Eastman Kodak Company (with large color photo of five people working with a camera … they all remembered the Kodak).
– Full page black and white ads for Packard Motor Car Company (1910 Packard “Thirty” Touring Car), Martin & Martin boots (all text).
– THE BEST half page artwork by John A. Williams, “Initiation into a college fraternity, I’ll be a sister 2 U,” Frat boy beseeching girl to join the frat while a whole row of dejected and rejected MALE candidates sit in the background.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (Courage boys, dinner will soon be ready … insects waiting for farmers to finish planting seeds),
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “Some of the women’s colleges are said to pay their professors very meager salaries, but the view is worth something” … man teaching all female class.
– Some current events include : Woman suffrage; Taxation; Dreadnoughts; The new thought in Turkey; Armenian massacres; The aeroplane industry.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1909 content – fun!