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Life Magazine – May 21, 1908 (# 1334) – C. Coles Phillips – Woman at Desk
$22.00
Magazine Condition : Fair (All Good, but has a corner water mark)
1 in stock
Description
Cover : Woman sitting at table with a stack of books, Lovely fade-out art by C. Coles Phillips.
– Full page (pale) color Oldsmobile ad with art by Edward Penfield, sepia color ad for Kodak with lovely portrait of a girl.
– Full page ad for Prudential insurance.
– Full page artwork by Post (Possibly Charles Johnson Post)(My dog : itching fleas).
– Two page centerspread art by Wm. H. Walker, “Teddy Roosevelt leading a parade and protecting “Mother Tariff.”
– Two page centerspread art by Wm. H. Walker, “Teddy Roosevelt leading a parade and protecting “Mother Tariff.”
– Current events include : Governor Hughes’s fight against race track betting Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of California asks Secretary of the Navy not to serve intoxicating beverages where members of the fleet are present (I’ll bet that was a popular idea – ha!), Some folks want the legislature to put shackles on the Stock Exchange to curb speculation (This might have helped prevent the big crash in 1929), and more.
– More tongue-in-cheek humor about the LIFE car in the great New York to Paris race, they are now in Persia.
– Quarter page ad for the sale of a house on Strawberry Hill near Manchester, Vermont, on 400 acres, with photo.
– Many more smaller artworks, comics, and humorous bits.
– Many more smaller artworks, comics, and humorous bits.
