Life Magazine – September 21, 1916 (# 1769) – Red Cross Nurse as Art

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Cover : Red Cross nurse done as stained glass art with injured soldiers sitting below window, “The patron saint,” art by Victor C. Anderson ?? (Printing is just too dark to read the signature … who has a lighter copy?)

– Full page color ads for Willys Knight limousine (great art by Myron Perley), Gordon Dry Gin (art of sailboats and ferry in motion, not signed), Cole Motor Cars (lovely art of dark blue open car with two greyhound dogs (probably) and crème colored building behind, not signed), Richmond cigarettes, Pall Mall cigarettes (with art of Leo Theimer of Hotel St. Regis).
– Full page ads for Westinghouse starting, lighting and ignition equipment (with photo of foot on starter), Life magazine subscription, Locomobile closed cars, Goodyear Tires, Pathfinder cars.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (mothers discussing accomplishments that girls need before they can get married), Harry Grant Dart (an inducement, pertaining to prohibition and politics), Charles Dana Gibson (page and a half : Her dance.  Older lady interrupting young man as he talking with young woman), Rea Irvin (Where they spent the summer).
– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker, The Supreme General Staff, the Devil, Death and a Joker looking down on a battlefield.
– Some current events include : Mr. Hughes now describes himself as a friend of labor, Gifford Pinchot has come out against Wilson, Progressiveness is a very different thing from progress.
– “The rich, as representatives of the vested interests, are always and instinctively obstacles to political progress. They are beneficiaries of the existing order and don’t want it all mussed up.”  Still true 100 years later!!!
– And much, much more.