– Full page color ads for Willys Knight Coupe with Noiseless Motor (nice art of dark blue car with two ladies driving in it, with horse, woman, and boy standing by outside it), Milo Egyptian cigarettes (with statues of Venus di Milo, perfect from every point of view), Baker Electrics Rauch & Lang Electric cars (lovely art signed with a glyph that looks like a man driving a carriage, who knows the name of this artist??).

– Full page black and white ads for Victrola (Caruso listening to himself), Aeolian-Vocalion phonograph (two pages, in the firelight glow), Alois P. Swoboda, Johnnie Walker Red Label Whiskey (art by Leo Cheney, non-refillable bottles), Velvet smoking tobacco, Gorham silversmiths and goldsmiths.

– Half page ad for Santa Fe railroad with very nice photo of white lady holding Native American child in a papoose carrier.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (As it seems when Wifie takes the wheel, female drivers), F. T. Richards (September), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : discovering you are in love with the man you have just rejected), Unsigned (COLOR portrait of a bulldog, One of Us, looks like work of Will Rannells or Carlton Smith), B. Cory Kilvert (COLOR, Slavery and Freedom, poor white child working while rich black child walks by), C. W. Kahles (landscape format, If our mental and physical growth were proportionate).

– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall (Peace, dead soldiers laying in a field).

– Life’s short story contest : Faithful to the end by Clair W. Perry, The Woman in the Case by Mary Sams Cooke

– Two small but wide PHOTOS, one of the Wayburn Chorus girls and one “In the subway at the Century.”

– Some current events include : German war machine, News from Russia is better, Bulgaria has mobilized, We would least rather be in the Balkans, New Yorkers voting on the new constitution.

– “There is a theory that when once the Germans begin to cave in they will go like a subway section, whole blocks at a time.”

– And much more 1915   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – October 7, 1915 (# 1719) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Vanity Fair magazine (with October 1915 cover), Bull Durham tobacco (with nice art of two couples playing billiards).

– Full page black and white ads for Willard storage battery, Fisk non-skid tires (with nice art by Denman Fink), Locomobile (The locomobile and its owner), Denby Trucks (with nice art of J. J. Quill Fuel & Transfer truck), Johnnie Walker Red Label whiskey (art of men horseback riding by Leo Cheney), United States Tires.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (What did she say that tickled the Parson so immensely?), Harry Grant Dart (once upon a time Spain had one of these, too), William H. Walker (two pages, He who friends would have, himself must friendly be), Elsie Rand (A movie story), Orson Lowell (Popular conceptions : happy days in the home of a minister of the gospel),

– Life’s short story contest : Just a pal by Elsie D. Knisely, The answer by Harry Stillwell Edwards, The Black Door by Gordon Seagrove.

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : the one night a week that he dines at home, he is asleep in his chair as his pretty young wife looks sadly at him).

– Some current events include : Henry Ford’s ten-million-dollar peace offer, Charles Steinmetz, Detaching the Austrian ambassador from his duties in the US, If we get into the war it will be because the Teutonic allies drag us in.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – September 23, 1915 (# 1717) – First Girlfriend appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color Aeolian company (two pages, sepia tone, Pianolas), Richmond Straight Cut cigarettes, Bull Durham smoking tobacco (car race scene).
– Full page ads for Vanity Fair (with mini color cover of November 1915 issue), Locomobile, United States Tires nobby tread, Willard Storage Battery (with photo of actual brick Willard service station), Ohio Electric cars.
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (Faithful servants, German-Americans helping the Kaiser sneak up on Uncle Sam), Angus MacDonall (Midnight, Wall Street.  Rich person getting in car surrounded by ghosts of poor workers), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : meeting the fiancé of the Heiress with whom you crossed the ocean), illegible signature (The beginner, car hits lone tree in middle of huge plain).
– Short Story: A Mexican Viandiere, by H. C. Washburn.
– Short Story: Mother’s Birthday present, by Carrie Seever.
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “Strategy,” The Trojan Dachshund dog on the White House lawn with German-Americans climbing out.
– Some current events include : The fire is hot now under all the Balkans, Lord Northcliffe and his proclamations.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – October 28, 1915 (# 1722) – Paul Stahr – The Jester appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for The Great White Fleet (There the pirates hid their gold), Phoenix Silk Hose (LOVELY: Traffic cop stopping cars for a lady in green to cross the road, art by Mortimer W. Loew, probably), Columbia Records.
– Full page ad for Reed & Barton sterling silver, Packard Motor cars (no art), Goodyear tires (most phenomenal year ever), Johnnie Walker Red (art by Leo Cheney), Franklin Sedan, Multigraph printer (like a mimeograph).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Reginald Bathhurst Birch (Mother, I wish you and father would make up …), William H. Walker (All Hope abandon ye who enter here), Harry Grant Dart (Rich commissioner facing impoverished army), F. G. Cooper (Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall … pork barrel balancing above national disaster), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : Slimpkins’s fiancée returns to town about sixty pounds heavier), Rodney Thomson (The greatest wonder in the world, love).
– Short Story: When “Kultur” was beaten, by Lieutenant X.
– Short Story: Presumption of innocence, by Lyman Bryson.
– CUTE : half page art by A. B. Walker, “Her Fish Story,” doting parents look on while daughter (with man on a leash) says “I caught it at Newport and it’s that long (arms apart with $10,476,592.98 written in the space).
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by C. W. Kahles, “An Indian Summer,” Native Americans doing all the traditional “white people” summer activities (vertical format).
– Some current events include : Constitutional convention, We are to vote on women’s suffrage in New York, “Votes-for-women, whenever it comes, is probably a step in the direction of government by experts,” President Wilson is soon to be married, Many Americans are afraid their country has not done enough about the war in Europe, Frank Crance boasts that “Uncle Sam is hopelessly bourgeois, fond of minding his own business, anxious to make money.”
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – October 21, 1915 (# 1721) – Indian Summer appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Omar Turkish Blend cigarettes, Rameses cigarettes, Columbia Records (tennis scene).
– Full page ads for Johnnie Walker Red whiskey (art by Leo Cheney), Life magazine subscription (cute art of Scotsman by Albert Levering), Fisk Tires, Chandler Motor Cars, Perrier sparkling table water, Aeolian-Vocalion (two pages, phonographs).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (If he must remain in the cabinet … Josephus Daniels, Department of Agriculture), Charles Dana Gibson (Do you think you will be able to keep within your allowance this month?), F. T. Richards (July), Walter Tittle (A reactionary : … perfectly contented with the same man ever since).
– Short story: The ego of the metropolis by Thomas T. Hoyne.
– Short story: Approximating the ultimate with Aunt Sarah, by Charles Earl Gaymon.
– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker, “Crucified,” young couple looking at an apartment with sign “To Let, no children,” a huge child is “crucified” on the side of the building (vertical format).
– Some current events include : Must stop the killing in Europe, Mr. Wanamaker suggests buying back Belgium from Germany, Norman Angell and his loud views on war and peace.
– And much more 1915   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – August 5, 1915 (# 1710) – John LaGatta – Tennis appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (An extra FAT issue with 95 pages)
– Half page artwork by Power O’Malley of Santa dropping a bomb down the conning tower of a German submarine, The better the day, the better the deed.
– Full page color ads for Victrola (art by Norman Price), Great Western Champagne (signed, but I don’t recognize, A. S. co), Great White Fleet (living the past in present day comfort), Aeolian Company (art by Clara Elsene Peck), Columbia Graphophone, Daniel Green felt slippers, Tuxedo tobacco, Cook’s Imperial champagne, Egyptian deities cigarettes (great art by CP), Heublein Club cocktails.
– Full page ads for Exide electric storage battery (with muscular man), White Rock mineral water, Old Hampshire Bond stationery, Johnnie Walker Whisky (art by Leo Cheney), New Edison phonograph, Oneida community silver, Havone cigarette cases), Western Electric Company, Velvet smoking tobacco.
– Full page color art by Calvert (Her surprise for Mother), Will Rannells (A tough proposition … boxer dog in plaid cap with cigarette).
– Full page art or cartoon art by R. M. Crosby (Preparedness), Charles Dana Gibson (You don’t mean to say, Estelle, that you are tired of settlement work?), Paul Stahr (It’s a wise boy that knows his own father … dressed as Santa), T. S. Sullivant (The first high power car), Unsigned (probably Irvin or Forbell : Just supposing), Angus MacDonall (Landscape format : Second-hand furniture), Charles Dana Gibson (And you went to the Panama Exposition on your wedding trip?), Angus MacDonall (landscape format : Pals), Bayard Jones (a combination in restraint of osculation), Charles Forbell (Willie’s nightmare after playing hookey for the first time), Charles A. Voight (The theorist).
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “Finishing touches,” little boy painting scribbles over his father’s landscape painting.
– Christmas 1915 by editor Edward S. Martin.
– Dogs and their heroes by E. V. Lucas.
– And much more 1915   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – December 2, 1915 (# 1727) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 9, 1915 (# 1728) – Monster under the bed appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 16, 1915 (# 1729) – Will Rannells – Collie and Mail appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 23, 1915 (# 1730) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 30, 1915 (# 1731) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.