Life Magazine – May 4, 1911 (# 1488) – Commuters’ Number

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Cover : Life’s cherub as a late commuter, running for the train while gulping his coffee and putting on his overcoat, collar, hat, umbrella and newspaper flying, art by the great James Montgomery Flagg.

– COMMUTER’S NUMBER.

– Full page color ads for Armour Toilet Soaps (nice lilac colored ad), Goorich tires (tough white tread, with man collecting rubber sap from tree), Baker Electrics (Baker Motor Vehicle company, with nice art of ducks landing on sunset lake by signature might be S. V. Camp with a flourish … who knows this artist?).

– Full page black and white ads for E. R. Thomas Motor Car Company (with art of a model M-Six car), Wyckoff Church & Partridge for Commer trucks (includes full cost of things like driver, gasoline, oil, grease, tires, insurance, etc. for a specific trip), Vogue (with ladies posing in the letters of VOGUE), Packard Motor Car Company (with art of Lyon & Healy, Wabash and Adams Pianos Organs truck), American Locomotive Company (ALCO cars), Matheson Automobile Company (Matheson Silent six with neat art), Goodyear Tire and Rubber company (No-rim-cut tires), Hampton’s magazine.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Commuter leaving a play early because the last train is in 8 minutes), Marcus (VERY COOL : showing the different composition of train passengers at different times of day), Orson Lowell (Are you fond of travel? World traveler vs. commuter), William H. Walker (Life’s gallery of saints : Saint Andrew of Skibo)

– Two page centerspread art by Walter Tittle, Some Pittsburg ancestors of the future : the young steel magnate shows the family portrait gallery.

– Some current events include : Are inheritance taxes too high in New York State? (much on this), New York mayor was shot last summer 1910.

– “The methods by which many big fortunes have been heaped up in late years have made inheritance taxation popular as being the natural means of recovering for the people property that has been more or less scandalously acquired.”

– Life’s family album : Walter Tittle, small photo and short piece.

– Two thirds page ad for Union Pacific railroad to Yellowstone National Park, boys taking a close-up photo of bear.

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1911 content – fun!