– FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY NUMBER (contains a reprint of cover and editorial page of the first issue of Life, January 4, 1883).
– Full page color ads for Power Reproduction Corporation (scene is color photo of two cars and twelve people having a picnic in the shade at the edge of a meadow), Cadillac (paired with a black and white ad), Camel cigarettes.
– Full page ads for Listerine shaving cream, Gasparilla Inn and Cottages in Boca Grande, Florida (2 photos), Chevrolet, Buick (2 pages, 29 years of history), Miami Biltmore, Cadillac.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Russell Patterson (It’s just a tumble-down hut), P. L. Crosby (two facing pages : Skippy spends the night with a friend), Webster (The timid soul has read that gangsters occasionally carry machine guns in violin cases … man holding out money and watch to a passing violinist), Wallace Morgan (His wife must be down from Boston, he keeps calling me George), Tony Balcom (Franklin D. Roosevelt as a tintype), John Held Jr. (full page, but centered across spine : Impressions of Magazine Offices … LIFE (in the mauve decade), Fred G. Cooper (Barnacles – text and art), Edwina (Sinbad’s birthday party), C. H. Sykes (The fads of fifty years), Robert L. Dickey (Every dog has his day), Johnny Gruelle (The first gas buggy comes to Yahoo Center),
– Cute little cartoon by Dr. Seuss, “Pshaw – they’ll all say I took it from a tree!”
– The editor’s column is a brief summation of a history of Life magazine.
– Two page centerspread art by Jefferson Machamer, Polly.
– Some events since Life was first published in 1883 : France presented the USA with Statue of Liberty (1884, she stands with her back to the USA, looking wistfully toward her native country), Mr. Elwood Haynes of Kokomo Indiana drove his first horseless carriage twice around the fair grounds (1894), Carrie Nation’s activities related to prohibition (1901), The first New York subway opened (1904), Sinking of the Lusitania (1917), Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic (1927).
– Small cartoon by Bill Holman with a style that looks exactly like Dr. Seuss, page 37.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1933 content – fun!

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– Full page color ads for Powers Direct Color Photography (with two ladies in swimming suits on a beach), Grace Line steamer ships and cruises (nice art), Camel cigarettes.

– Full page ads for Listerine, Useppa Island off Florida, Chevrolet, Florida hotels, Advertising on 5^th avenue buses in New York.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Viale (month of March), Robert Day (Stork : Mrs. Greenley is expecting me), P. L. Crosby (Skippy : I want youse all to take that fort), Haenigsen (board of directors and line charts), Edwina (Sinbad … spring is here – almost!), Jefferson MacHamer (two pages, Polly introducing her Pappy), Tony Balcom (tintype, worst vice-president, John Nance Garner), Haenigsen (the new Frankenstein),

– Income tax song, poem by Arthur L. Lippmann.

– The great New Jersey rehabilitation plan by Dr. Seuss.

– Some current events include : Death of Calvin Coolidge, Professor Jennings of Johns Hopkins University said that biological science finds no support for the idea of the survival of personality after death.

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1933 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – March 1933 (# 2576) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires, Powers Color Photography, Lucky Strike Cigarettes (landscape format : LOVELY art by Howard Chandler Christy).

– Full page ads for Miami Biltmore in Coral Gables, Listerine toothpaste, Hotel Charlotte Harbor in Punta Gorda Florida, Phillips’ milk of magnesia, Florida hotels, Advertising on Fifth avenue buses in New York.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Viale (month of February), Anton Bruehl-Balch (Buy American Beer), Russell Patterson (The usherette who made good), Haenigsen (Roosevelt promises to make White House receptions strictly informal), Edwina (Sinbad … winter sports), Dr. Seuss (The changing fauna of the arctic), Kemp Starrett (grounded!), Jefferson MacHamer (Polly : who is beeps about going places).

– Photo of Edwina and the original Sinbad (on page 48) but not her real name.

– Some current events include : French Chamber of Deputies decline to make a payment due to the United States on December 15^th, Squabbles about debts, Hearst and Brisbane wailing over the costs of the War.

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1933 content – fun!

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– Full page color GoodYear Tires ad with lots of tiny vintage cars driving on a tire.
– Full page ad for Monogram novelties by the Jewelry Craftsmen, Boyden-Minuth.
– Full page ad for the White Star Line, International Mercantile Marine company.
– Full page color April 1933 calendar with art by Albert Viale and humor by Jose Schorr.
– LOVELY full page color artwork of woman picking up Sunday paper by R. John Holmgren.
– Full page art or cartoon art by P. L. Crosby (Oh Mama! The new boarder’s dunkin’ already!), Albert Viale (a painter and his artistic interpretation of reality), Edwina (Sinbad¦ All aboard!  Points East – and West), Jefferson Machamer (Two pages :  Polly), Tony Balcom (color tintype : I asked the florist for a nosegay but he eyed me askrance), Perry Barlow (The Childrena’s Hour).
– Jimmy Durante by S. J. Perelman.
– Two page centerspread color ad for De Soto Six car, ski theme photo in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
– Some current events include : High unemployment, New York has many conspicuous monuments to past expectations such as the Empire State Building, Repeal of Eighteenth amendment, Prohibition, Congress must reduce gratuities given to servicemen, Franklin Roosevelt as President.
– Nice and unusual full page silver grey Chevrolet Cabriolet ad.
– Full page color photo of Ming vase as advertising for an ad in Life.
– Full page color Ethyl gasoline ad with art by Frederic Stanley.
– Full page color French Line ships, Ile de France ad with dinner art by (possibly) Leslie Salberg.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1933 content – fun!

The post Life Magazine – April 1933 (# 2577) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color Canada’s Dry’s Sparkling water ad.
– Full page ads for Goodyear tires (color art), Ethyl gasoline (art by Frederic Stanley), White Star Line (art), Listerine (photo), Florida-Collier Coast and Associated hotels (art).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Viale and Jose Schorr (May), Tony Balcom (tintype of William H. Coodin), Haenigsen (Man sneaking about at night to play miniature golf), P. L. Crosby (If that’s a sewer …), Edwina (Sinbad : queen of May), Russell Patterson (two pages, pair of ladies drinking beer at Beer Garden), Dr. Seuss (We’re lost if we steer by the Great North Bear; steer by the Small South Whoosis!), I. Klein (The last review of the Grand Army of Prohibition).
– Full page color General Dual Ballon tires ad with art including lady in bright pink dress.
– Full page color art “Impossible magazine mergers # 1 : The New Yorker and the American Boy”, not signed.
– Some current events include : Please pass the butter!, Farm Bill, Anti-Saloon League, The Veterans bloc, Tammany.
– Full page color photo of Miss Marquita Nicholi (ad for advertising in Life magazine).
– Full page color U.S. Lines, Roosevelt Steamship Company ad for the S. S. Washington with art by Wood.
– Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with magic act, Burning oven.
– And much more 1933   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – May, 1933 (# 2578) – Jigsaw Puzzle appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (with art of two women driving), Canada Dry’s Sparkling water, Buick (with lovely art of relay runner behind red car), General Dual Balloon tires (with nice art of couple walking dog by white car), Life magazine ad for advertisers showing tableware by Altman, White Star line (with art by Prins), Ethyl gasoline (with art by Frederic Stanley of two young men in green convertible), Lucky Strike cigarettes (with excellent landscape format art by Hayden Hayden).
– Full page black and white ads for Pontiac (with art of car by entry awning), Chevrolet (with sepia), Listerine.
– Special section : IMPOSSIBLE MAGAZINE MERGERS 2 : TIME & Popular Mechanics with sample color cover and two sample interior pages.
– Predictions for the joyful month of June by Jose Schorr, art by Albert Viale.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Tony Balcom (tintype of General Charles G. Dawes), Harry Haenigsen (Airplane dropping a huge number of flyers for “Clean-up week”), Dr. Seuss (My three best tricks and how I do them : Brick Wall Diving, Sawing a size 47 bust in half, Kangaroos out of hat), Edwina (Sinbad : right this way for the big show.  Edwina, who is famous for her dog cartoons, is Frances Edwina Dumm.), Boris Artzybasheff (The OTHER rope, you ass! … two men sailing), Harry Haenigsen (Our X-ray photographer discloses a few things we’ve always wanted to know).
– Two page COLOR art by Russell Patterson, couple looking at bride and bridesmaids, “If you can’t show us something better than that …”
– Some current events include : President Roosevelt in office three months now.
– Nice photo of the girls at the swimming pool at the Fresh Air camp in Branchville, Connecticut.
– And much more 1933   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

The post Life Magazine – June 1933 (# 2579) – Impossible magazine mergers appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Good Year Double Eagle tires (with art of couple in fancy evening dress), Canada Dry’s Sparkling Water (Purse easy), Chevrolet (The gas tank proves it), Budweiser beer (with excellent art of people dancing outside at night with cityscape beyond them), Life magazine color advertising (photo of buffet line in Hotel New Yorker), Ethyl gasoline (with nice art of filling radiator on car, by Frederic Stanley), General Dual Balloon tires with group at white car (orange background, art probably by Walter Klett).
– Full page black and white ads for University magazine, Florida – Collier Coast hotels, Boyden-Minuth Jewelry Craftsmen.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Jose Schorr and Albert Viale (Predictions for August), S. Berman (clay model of Adolf Hitler), Russell Patterson (Uncle Tom’s Cabana), Ludwig Bemelmans (Color : School girls mailing out letters and getting signed photo of movie star in return), Edwina (Sinbad : merrily we roll along … rollerskating), Mud (?) (The unholy three : Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito), Harry Haenigsen (Our own newsreel).
– Some current events include : Douglas and Mary want to divorce, President’s cruise in the ship Amberjack.
– And much more 1933   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

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– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (with art of mother and daughter in car), Graham cars (Safer for every member of your family), Chevrolet, Color advertising in Life magazine, Camel cigarettes (with pilot A. M. Wilkins for Trans-continental and Western Air, W. Niedernhofer).
– Eight pages of Life’s Fresh Air Fund Summer Supplement, listing donors and their home town, plus many nice photos of kids at the camps.
– Full page black and white ads for Ethyl gasoline (art by Frederic Stanley), Pontiac, Listerine, Kings Beer, Ridgways Teas.
– Special section : IMPOSSIBLE MAGAZINE MERGERS 4 : Photoplay and Woman’s Home Companion with sample color cover (Mitzi Mordecai) and two sample interior pages.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Jose Schorr and Albert Viale (Predictions for September), S. Berman (clay model of a boxer, mightiest Roman), Russell Patterson (I vouldn’t give you a nickel for twenty yards, Morris … crowded beach scene), Dorothy McKay (Color : Smash him, Honey; the lights are with us), Edwina (Sinbad : the last laugh), Harry Haenigsen (Our own newsreel), illegible (Speaking of a century of progress : kidnaper special), H. M. Bateman (The unknown vintage … from PUNCH).
– Some current events include : Pilot Wiley Post flies around the world, Nose shaping device called the Sculptron invented by Paul Bieles of Sheboygan Wisconsin, Prohibition repealNational Industrial Recovery Act.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1933 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine – September 1933 (# 2582) – Playing Card Royalty Romance appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– STAGE AND SCREEN NUMBER.
– Full page color ads for Good Year Double Eagle tires (with art of grandma and grandchild in back seat of car), Canada Dry’s Sparkling Water (Let it pour!), Chevrolet, Graham cars (handsome ad, The finest car at the price), Prophylactic toothbrushes, Life magazine, Budweiser beer, Lucky Strike cigarettes ad (with excellent sailing art by Andrew Loomis.
– Full page black and white ads for Body by Fisher (Why Aunt Elizbeth changed her will), Cunard Line (Around the world in the Franconia), Kings beer, University magazine, Vogue magazine
– Full page art or cartoon art by Jose Schorr and Albert Viale (Predictions for October), Russell Patterson (Believe me, I’m going to move into an apartment with an elevator until this show closes), Dorothy McKay (Color : Edgar does the darndest things since he switched to Camels (little boy smoking and doing magic tricks)), Edwina (Sinbad : the coward … barking at himself in a film), illegible Wnd (The hunter’s falcon),
– Interesting full page PHOTO-montage of Eleanor Roosevelt, First lady of the land, sea and air.
– Two pages of artwork in four panels by Don Freeman, “The theatre movement from angel to storehouse, in lithograph, One for the money …
– One third page artwork cartoon by SCHUS, probably Adolph Schus, Here you are, folks, the song hits of the show.
– Some current events include : Prohibition, kidnapping common.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1933 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine – October 1933 (# 2583) – Stage and Screen Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Good Year Double Eagle tires (with art of cowboy giving directions to driver), Canada Dry’s Sparkling Water, Chevrolet (My pocketbook says), General Dual Balloon tires ad with very pretty art of women and white car (with orange background, art probably by Walter Klett), Life magazine ad for advertisers, Camel cigarettes (disappearing elephant trick).
– Full page black and white ads for Spur Bow ties, Pontiac (with art), Newsweek magazine, American Golfer magazine.
– Special section : IMPOSSIBLE MAGAZINE MERGERS 3 : Good Housekeeping and The Literary Digest with sample color cover and two sample interior pages.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Jose Schorr and Albert Viale (Predictions for July), Tony Balcom (tintype of Senator Hiram Johnson), Boris Artzybasheff (And over there – behind the fruit cart – is the Empire State Building), Edwina (Sinbad : three cheers for the fourth!), Russell Patteron (COLOR : Mary Lou, will you all entertain Mr. Banks till Ah come down?), Dr. Seuss (The Farm Relief situation at a glance), Harry Haenigsen (Our own newsreel).
– Some current events include : People who got loans from Morgan’s bank got unwelcome publicity (favoring friends, speculation and such), Altercation in the Presbyterian Church about Mrs. Buck (missionary to China), Too much kidnapping where the criminals get away with the ransom.
– And much more 1933   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

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