Life Magazine – May 9, 1912 (# 1541) – International Number, Harem

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Cover : Gorgeous (if not exactly true-to-reality) art of two women in a harem greeting a western man at the window, art by Power O’Malley.

– INTERNATIONAL NUMBER.
– Artists and cartoonists include G. Watson Barratt, Paul Goold, A. B. Walker, Rea Irvin (two – full page), Bayard Jones, Art Young, Lutz, F. G. Cooper, C. Barnes, Otho Cushing, Mark Fenderson, Arthur Nowell, Wm. H. Walker, James Montgomery Flagg, and others.
– Two page center spread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Among the Foreign News.
– Full page photo ad for Locomobile, “48” locomobile six touring car at Pennsylvania Terminal, New York : GREAT ad.
– Full page Henry Likely luggage ad for big travel chests and more.
– Quarter page ad for the coolest Riding lawn mower, Coldwell motor lawn mower.
– The travel cartoon that translates perfectly today, shows naked people approaching the custom’s officer : nothing to conceal.
– Current topics include political speeches, Coroner Smith of Michigan, this is two weeks after the Titanic sank (the shadow of the disaster is still dark upon the land), Suffragist Pankhurst, Senator Bourne, and more.
– President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt, ambulating about the country exposing one another’s political deformities and misdeeds.
– Notes on the birth rate.
– New religion on a paying basis.
– When we were poor in Paris, poem by Charles Hanson Towne.
– Willie, where did you learn to swear like that? Pa’s shaving, uncle’s golf, grandpa’s auto and your parrot.
– Full page Maxwell Mascotte auto, United States Motor Car ad.
– SUPER full page Coeur de Jeannette perfume ad.
– Full page Speedwell speed car ad, Speedwell Motor Car company.
– Half page Folding pocket Kodak camera ad – neat!
– Half page White Company car ad, White Six, Cleveland.
– LOVELY full page color Oldsmobile ad, car with license plate 1523, overlooking sea with several large ships.
– Anyone who loves foreign travel will be delighted with this one!
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1912 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

Want to read more?  Click —>  LIFE magazine coverage of the sinking of the Titanic.