– Much pertaining to Christmas.
– Full page color ads for Michelin tires, A. B. Chase Piano Company  (with art of a naked lady playing a Jubilee Harp outdoors), Fatima cigarettes (with art of couple at gala, art by Oberhardt.
– Full page black and white ads for Chandler Six motor cars, Mimeograph (with nice art of woman checking a negative), Warren’s standard printing papers
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harold Tucker Webster (There ain’t no Santy Claus ner nothin’!), Charles Dana Gibson (Between seasons : woman standing between old man and young man), Charles Forbell (A Roman triumph : the conquering hero), Gluyas Williams (From the diary of Comrade Blabb, labor agitator), W. J. Enright (Give a thought to Cuba, exercising the alligators in the zoo at Santiago), Ellison Hoover (An American Home : if we are to believe the newspaper comic artist)
– Nice half page artwork by C. F. Peters with ski theme, “Where did you hear such an awful story about her She was at a tea I attended yesterday, and she left before the others.”
– Letters from a Japanese schoolboy, will Hon. Republican party reduce the high cost of wealth?
– Interesting half page ad for American Telephone and Telegraph Company pertaining to February 1881 blizzard that ripped 2,400 phone wires from the roof of the Boston Bell telephone building, with art to illustrate.
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, A real Santa Claus, donating baskets of food to the poor.
– Some current events include : Christmas is imminent this week, Strife in Ireland, Infusion of politics by the Union Club into the Cathedral church, Dr. Butler of Columbia College says that it costs too much and teachers are not well qualified.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – December 16, 1920 (# 1989) – Norman Rockwell appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Rigaud perfumes and toiletries, Cole Aero-eight (Tourosine, navy blue car on fushia on dark green, art by TBM), Postum (Health First).

– Full page black and white ads for Weed Tire Chains, Northern paper towels (with a rose), LaFayette Motors company.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Henry Raleigh (tribute to acting with flowers), Oliver Herford (To starving Russian novelist : at least you have the satisfaction of knowing that you have abolished private property), Charles Dana Gibson (Two pages, a gentleman to see you, Miss … cupid), W. J. Enright (Give a thought to Cuba), H. T. Webster (Profiteer trying to buy Santa’s reindeer at 6 cents a pound).

– Two page centerspread art by Rea Irvin (Christmas in many lands).

– Some current events include : Forefathers’ day (the day the Pilgrims landed), Relation of Sunday to the Christian religion, Senator Harding returns from the West Indies, Mr. Wilson begs for adequate care of disabled service men, Treat of Peace.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – December 23, 1920 (# 1990) – Christmas – Mistletoe appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (much fatter than the typical issue).

– Full page color ads for Pep-o-mint Life savers, Victrola Victor Talking machine (art by Norman Price), Pall Mall cigarettes (unusual ad with lots of blank space and Christmas gift card attached to box), Mary Garden Perfume (art shows many products), Michelin universal cord tires (Christmas cheer for the motorist), Mercer Motors company (nice night time winter driving art, art by HLG, glyph), Empire Silk Company (great art of men playing cards by a fireplace, art by Harry Morse Meyers), Whitman’s chocolates (with an almost dancing Santa, art by Norman Price), McCallum silk hosiery (not signed, partly sepia tone, young delivery boy delivering a package that is falling apart at the doorstep showing purple stockings), Prudential insurance (richly colored art of Roman warriors in ship looking at rock of Gibraltar, art by Sweeney), Columbia Grafonola (art by Emil Schnellock), Washington’s coffee (signed with a glyph K), Egyptian Deities cigarettes, Shuyler’s chocolates (neat Christmas art with elves), Piso’s cough syrup, Pierce-Arrow (Two gentlemen in club at window, car outside), Nunnally’s candies, Curtice Brothers blue label foods (art by William T. Van Dresser), Christerfield cigarettes (Every man in class knew the answer), Lyon & Healy apartment grand piano (bright yellow page), Camel cigarettes, Sheaffer’s pen and pencil set (great art by C. Coles Phillips), Eastman Kodak (great photo of woman on skis and man with camera).

– Full page black and white ads for Community Plate flatware (Adam design, lovely ad), Waltham watches and clocks (nice artwork is of Westminster Abbey, signed by Lincoln and F. L. Kios?), Rubberset shaving brushes (with odd art of santa and a dog, what did you get for Christmas in 1909?), Manning Bowman quality ware (thermoses and such, Hotakold), White Rock Ginger Ale, Sarsaparilla and Root Beer, Greeting Card Association (A Christmas morning movie for men only), 1847 Rogers Brothers Silverware (Queen Anne pattern), Stutz Motor Car company, Irish Linen Society (art by Nell Ham?), Hansen Gloves, Chase Drednaut motor topping, Hotel Pennsylvania, Munson Steamship Line (to the fair lands below the equator).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Happy Christmas), unsigned (stork brings Santa one more tiny stocking), Oliver Herford (Tille red riding-hood, Lifeoscope), Ernest Hamlin Baker (A League of Nations with no reservations, kids with Santa), C. F. Peters (Is this a rendezvous or merely a coincidence?, crowd of men entering room full of women), Rodney Thomson (A Christmas romance), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : ye merrie, merrie Yuletyde), Rea Irvin (Christmas cards we’d like to send), F. G. Cooper (Merry Christmas, Adam!), Angus MacDonall (Father thinks he can persuade the family to have a small tree this year), Robert L. Dickey (Under the mistletoe, two puppies), Rea Irvin (The Cook’s Christmas, sleeping in), Popini (Don’t forget to order the mistletoe … ordering mistletoe for this house is like carrying coals to Newcastle), Charles Dana Gibson (NO, suitor rejected), Gluyas Williams (Twas the night before Christmas), Charles Forbell (Willie’s idea of enough plum pudding).

– A Christmas glimpse by Booth Tarkington, with art by Harold Sichel.

– Two page centerspread art by Oliver Herford (I believe, signature is VERY faint), The dance of the snowflakes.

– Some current events include : Christmas in politics, “One man’s freedom cannot rest on another man’s slavery, One man’s wealth cannot rest on another man’s poverty, On man’s happiness cannot rest on another man’s woe … and it is the same with nations as with men.”

– And much more 1920   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – December 2, 1920 (# 1987) – Christmas – Maxfield Parrish appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– SPORTING NUMBER.

– Full page color ads for Michelin universal cord tires (with huge Michelin man standing on pedestal like a statue), Rigaud Mary Garden perfume (art by A. D. Rahn), Columbia Grafonola (art of country dance with jack-o-lanterns, She dances such-a-way).

– Full page black and white ads for Chandler Motor Car Company (Chandler Six, with photos of Sedan inside and out), Ruud Automatic gas water heater (nice art that makes hot tap water look wonderful), Mimeograph (Forty thousand birds, Homing pigeons), Northern tissue, Warren’s standard printing papers (What the hand of the printer holds for you), Hansen gloves (tremendous stride in transportation),

– Full page art or cartoon art by J. R. Shaver (The guilty ones : father and son both playing hookey and fishing), Charles Dana Gibson (Just before she said yes, both parties look worried), Gluyas Williams (The nineteenth amendment in the home), Charles Forbell (If the employees of the weather bureau were to go on strike), H. T. Webster (Mother’s Pet Lamb : Mother is Cox, child is Slush Fund issue, Father is voter), Alfred Frueh (Man’s inhumanity to pigs, letting pig eat the picnic while he uses pig’s tail as a corkscrew),

– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, Labor and Capital come to a pleasant agreement, rich older Unsuccessful fisherman buying fish off a successful little boy while his guide is around the corner unaware).

– Some current events include : League of Nations, Presidential campaign, Final baseball series of the year have been queered by the dishonesty of some players, Cost of sugar has dropped to thirteen cents, Price of Henry Ford cars is going back to what they were before the war.

– “Do you want your country’s honor vindicated and the Treaty of Versailles ratified?”

– Cute smaller cartoon series where man moves stones to make artist’s signature visible, art by Nate Collier.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – October 21, 1920 (# 1981) – Sporting Life – Fishing appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Murad Turkish cigarettes, Rigaud Mary Garden perfume (art by A. D. Rahn), Instant Postum (nice art of owl against the moon).

– Full page black and white ads for Kelly-Springfield tires (art by Laurence Fellows), Goldrich Silvertown Cord tires, White Trucks (First in construction hauling), Hansen Gloves (Essential), Liberty Lens (head lights for car), Leland-built Lincoln cars (Two pages, Henry M. Leland’s own story, with photos of 7 passenger touring car and 5 passenger sedan), Cleveland automobile company (Cleveland Six).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Gluyas Williams (Sightseeing in Switzerland … 2Neat notes that this is especially humorous), Louis Raenaekers (By persuasion or force, we will spread real Russian happiness in Poland and all over the world), Alexander Popini (Your father wishes to see you in the library), Charles Forbell (Love’s Labor Lost, unusual art style for Forbell), Charles Dana Gibson (The high cost of profiteering (Uncle Sam cutting up a roast pig).

– Two page centerspread art by H. T. Webster, A distinguished senator explaining to a mother, who has lost her only son in the great war, why the League of Nations is utter nonsense.

– Some current events include : Mr. Harding is hedging about the League, Is Union labor going to govern the British Empire?, Hunger-striking mayor of Cork Ireland, All of the world is in trouble about coal (necessary to contemporary life).

– “Governor Cox is traveling about somewhere in the West, making a lot of noise and apparently repeating the Republican-slush-fund stories where he thinks they will be acceptable.”

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – September 23, 1920 (# 1977) – Narcissism appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Michelin universal cord tires (Friends for life), Cole Aero-eight (cream car on red on green, Sportsedan), Pierce-Arrow cars (GORGEOUS yellow car in autumn scene, new pleasure to touring, art by C. L. Cole or C. I. Cole).

– Full page black and white ads for Lincoln Motor Company (with photo of plant in Detroit … it is huge!), Mimeograph (Hinges, art by RFH), Addressograph (Saves $230,000 for Hearst publications), Chandler Six (Famous for its marvelous motor, signed but faint, probably Herbert B, Herbert Becker??), Warren’s standard printing papers (A craftsman’s opportunity), Simmons beds, U.S. Pneumatic truck tires.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Gluyas Williams (Campaign photography), Louis Raemaekers (What central Europe has got from its Kaiserism), Angus MacDonall (Building : great care in building some property, but great lack of care in building others, poor kids pulling a cart of scraps for their house while passing a monumental building under construction), H. T. Webster (boy cleaning fish in a cloud of insects, Life’s Darkest Moments), Charles Dana Gibson (playing bridge versus making love), Charles Forbell (Getting even with the brute who cornered the food supply).

– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, Broken down car blocking the road for a horse-drawn hay cart, Don’t you know it’s against the law to block the way?

– Some current events include : Republican campaign funds, Presidential campaign, League of Nations, Japanese have approved of hara-kiri (ritual suicide), Hunger strikes, Mayor of Cork, Ireland is a hornets’ nest.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – September 16, 1920 (# 1976) – Smoke ring appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Estey Organ company (The dance of death, signed but illegible Lea…??), Williams Shaving stick (art by Farmer, face in cloud, first name illegible).

– Full page black and white ads for Templar Motors Company (The superfine small car), Goodrich silvertown cord tires, Weed Tire chains (art with an interesting angle), Packard Motor Car Company (art by Brubaker, How many buyers can judge value?), Franklin Automobile Company, Hotel Pennsylvania (opposite Pennsylvania terminal in New York), Studebaker cars (Special-six, photo with all women), Palmolive shaving cream, Camel cigarettes.

– Full page art or cartoon art by H. T. Webster (Land of equal opportunities … might have been President if born across the Ohio state line), Gluyas Williams (Senator Sounder averts the paper shortage), Popini (Man trying to describe a woman’s outfit), Louis Raemaekers (Feudalism and Bolshevism both want to set Russia free), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : evicting ye tenants).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Satisfactory result of a correspondence course in personality and charm development, older lady with all the men around her).

– Some current events include : Presidential campaign, Victory of the Poles, Wlodawa on the Bug, Suffrage Amendment, Lady Nancy Astor supports having women in Embassies.

– And so much more!  1920 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – September 9, 1920 (# 1975) – Davy Jones and Mermaid appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– AMERICAN LEGION NUMBER.

– Full page color ads for Pantasote car top material (GREAT art of Columbia Crest at Mount Rainier National Park … note that Rainier is misspelled as RANIER), Michelin Tire company (25 years ago and today), Clicquot Club Ginger Ale (nice art of Eskimo child handing ginger ale to a couple in a red canoe, signed with a B in a curvy triangle), Estey Residence Pipe Organ (nice evening scene in grand home, signed but illegible, last name ends in Y), Ward’s Orange Crush soda (Two glorious pages, art by G. H. Mitchell), Mercer Motors company (Gorgeous scene of car driving through autumn wheat fields, signed but I do not recognize it, possibly Al G. P or A.H.G. P, the “P” is some kind of stylized glyph – do you know this artist?), Columbia Grafonola (nice beach side art by Barclay), Coca-Cola (neat night time carnival scene, not signed), Rigaud Parfum (harem and peacock, art by A. Rahn), Hinds Cream (for sunburn, lovely art of young woman), Curtice Brothers (Blue label foods, sailing art with sailboat Alice), La Creole Hair color (art by Church), Hires root beer (note, ad does not say “root beer”), Colgate’s shaving stick.

– Full page black and white ads for Waltham watches (Proof), Equinox Mountain Spring beverages (Equinox spa and pavilion, Manchester, Vermont), Mimeograph (Developed for speed, with a race horse, art by RFH), Packard Motor Car Company (Who pays for all the discarded cars), W. & J. Sloane furniture, U.S. Pneumatic Truck tires, Columbia Motors (Columbia six, art with prickly pear cactus), Metropolitan (Margot Asquith’s diary).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Raymond Moreau Crosby (golfing scene, discussion of allowances between soon-to-be-married couple), H. T. Webster (The conservative, hard-headed banker who refuses to cash a two-dollar check for us without proper identification, banker is handing off a huge pile of liberty bonds for an unknown young boy to deliver), Charles Dana Gibson (Flanders fields, sad Uncle Sam in huge cemetery), Robert L. Dickey (Findin’s ‘s keepin’s, two dogs and one bone), Ellison Hoover (To make the world safe, giant soldier looking down at the behind-doors machinations of politicians and businessmen), Louis Raemaekers (Among the quiet woods of Amerongen …, rich old man surrounded by reaching skeletons),

– The American Legion and the Service Men.

– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, The Same Spirit, a parade of military men of various branches and politicians.

– Some current events include : Mr. Harding’s wife prefers that he continues as a senator, Presidential candidates, Colonel House has gone abroad.

– And much more 1920   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – July 1, 1920 (# 1965) – Norman Rockwell – American Legion appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Universal Cord tries (cool art of the huge Michelin man standing behind a billboard as motorists drive by), Cole Aero-Eight (Tourster, blue car on red on blue), Pall Mall cigarettes (Rounds).

– Full page black and white ads for Eveready Daylo batteries ($10,000 cash prize contest, art of treasure hunter), Miller Tires, Victor Talking Machine Company, Northern tissue, Chandler Six (Chandler adds much to out-door life, art by Glenn Shaw), Studebaker (attractive ad, all women in the car), Warren’s standard printing papers (your customer wants to like your work), Prudential insurance (art by F. M.), Hotakold vacuum vessels (Manning, Bowman and company, thermoses and such).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Harold Tucker Webster (The Angelus, poor old farmer watching as all of his workers leave to work in the factory at higher wages), Robert L. Dickey (The trail of a lonesome pup, muddy paw prints show how the puppy spent the day of mischief), Rea Irvin (The lawn party : our marionettes attend the opening day at Flivverdale), Angus MacDonall (The dream of a popular man, police officer keeping away all the admirers),

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, That pleasant moment when it turns out that his father is an old flame of your mother’s, young couple are forgotten.

– Some current events include : Republican convention, Great industrial unrest and dissatisfaction is the worst trouble of the world, The Armenian people, League of Nations is said to be a going concern.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – June 17, 1920 (# 1963) – Soda Fountain – GREAT art appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Universal Cord tires, Mercer Motors company (Hare’s Motors, gorgeous art with trees in pink and lilac bloom … from the beauties of springs to beauty of spring suspension), Heinz vinegars Maid carrying a salad tray, artist is Both, possibly Armend Both – who knows this artist?), MacBeth green visor lens (headlights), Prudential Insurance (art by Adolph Treidler), Chesterfield cigarettes (That says it, night time city scene where all the buildings have lighted Chesterfield signs), Colgate shaving cream (evolution of the comfort smile).

– Full page black and white ads for Miller Tires (Why 22,000 miles), Ruud automatic gas water heater, White Trucks (no art), Simmons Beds, Good Year cord tires (with photos and quote from J. W. Helwick of the San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation), Studebaker cars (Series 20 Big-Six, with all women), Chandler Six (Everybody likes the Chandler dispatch, with art by Glenn Shaw), Warren’s standard printing papers (Thumbprint of Goliath), United States Tires (Forty million tires for 1920).

– Cute half page art by Walter DeMaris of kids drilling holes in the fence around the baseball field, “Bud Smith’s Pa wonders what happened to his best bit.”

– Full page art or cartoon art by Gluyas Williams (The striker’s dream), Victor C. Anderson (Out of luck, young boy stuck in barber’s chair getting his hair cut as all his friends chase after the fire truck).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Aren’t you ruining your eyesight?,” man reading by the light of “Mechanical Politics” and “Personal ambitions” while his wife reads by the better light of “National interests.”

– Some current events include : California primaries between Johnson and Hoover, Republican party is now two parties, England is reaching out all over the world after oil wells, Russia’s political museum is oversupplied with freaks, Legislation to abolish strikes that affect the necessaries of life or the great public utilites.

– Two thirds page ad for the Society of American Florists, “Say it with flowers,” art by Edward C. Caswell.

– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – May 20, 1920 (# 1959) – Dog guarding sheep appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.