Life Magazine – October 3, 1907 (# 1301) – Jack-O-Lantern
$49.00
Magazine Condition : Good (minor cover edge chips)
Out of stock
Description
Cover : Woman holding a Jack-o-Lantern, art by Orson Lowell.
– Full page color ad for Williams’ Shaving stick (mild color).
– Full page black and white ad for Chickering and Sons pianos.
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (September), Nesbitt Benson (Their rich uncle unexpectedly introduces his bride).
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart (In the near future : congested traffic in upper Broadway … airships).
– A fresh start by Chesterton Todd.
– Some current events include : Governor Hughes makes very sensible discourses at the agricultural fairs which he has been visiting, The country is already heavily involved in the upcoming presidential election even though it is a year away, “Of all the Democrats that have been talked about, Johnson and Chanler seem the least repellant of possible votes.”
– “It was encouraging to read of the recent arrest of about a dozen of our fellow-citizens in Pennsylvania charged with criminal complicity in the stealings that made the furnishing of the new State Capitol so noisome a scandal. Of all the great states Pennsylvania is the rottenest.”
– Half page ad for the Melodant-Angelus piano-player (player piano) with super nice art.
– Cute half page artwork by George Watson Barratt showing a single man surrounded by women, “One of the dangers of a Naval career”
– And much more 1907 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!