– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Beck Wenzell (Did your daughter have any trouble with her French …?).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (an unusual one for him, UNrealistic people in boats on the ocean), “Cheer up Girls!, they are coming.”
– Some current events include : The wedding of Miss Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough, Pianist Paderewski, Withdrawal of Mr. Rose’s challenge to race for the America’s Cup yacht race.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1895   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

– Full page art or cartoon art by T. K. Hanna, Jr. (landscape format : How did he enter college He isn’t sixteen yet. … football player).
– Extremely humorous “examples” of things in the Duke’s wedding trousseau (as if he were the bride, since he is coming penniless to the wedding).
– Two page centerspread art by Gray Parker (The next horse show : horses in the audience, bicycles being sold).
– Some current events include : Mr. John Rockefeller intends to build a country house of prodigious size, Great houses and ostentation, The country needs a lot of palaces, Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire intends to form an alliance with Russia, Uncle Amos Cummings.
– And more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

– THANKSGIVING NUMBER (more pages than typical 1895 issue).
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. G. Attwood (November), Albert Beck Wenzell (landscape format : Her Father won over $2,000 from the Baron last month at cards … people in boxes at the theater), Hy Mayer (landscape format : A half holiday in the suburbs of Memphis, Egypt).
– Two page centerspread art by F. T. Richards, “Ye merrie New Englande Thanksgiving of earlier dayes,” witches hung from all the trees around grim pilgrims leaving a church service.
– Some current events include : American Thanksgiving Day, Pilgrims, Falling off in the volume of our formal expressions of gratefulness.
– Curious full page green ad for Redfern Fibre Chamois, with art of woman in riding costumes and lovely horse in English saddle.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!

– Two page centerspread art by  Charles Dana Gibson, “The power of love,” circle of wild African animals watching cupid play the flute, a very unusual piece for Gibson both in style and in content.

– Some current events include : Edward W. Bok says literary prizes have too high a monetary value, Mr. Caspar W. Whitney says that college athletics in the West are honeycombed with professionalism (men hired to play on football teams, Negative (but humorous) sentiment about Yale.- And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!

– And much more 1895   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

– Two page centerspread art by Albert D. Blashfield (Turn about is fair play … animals experimenting with electrical current on a former vivisectionist).

– Some current events include : Efforts to convert Colonel Robert Ingersoll, Court of Appeals has reversed the decisions of the lower courts in the Schuyler monument case, Statue in Mrs. Mary Hamilton Schuyler’s memory, Sultan of Turkey is in low spirits.

– And more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!

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

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (with color and more pages, dated “December 1895).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Beck Wenzel (Christmas Eve, a salutation from the past), F. G. Attwood (King Christmas Comes).
– Very cool half page artwork by T. S. Sullivant, “Life’s patent unicycle observation tower dog-cart (very high cart on a single big wheel).
– Novelette (unusual in Life) : Two Portraits, an international mystery, written by editor J. A. Mitchell, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.
– A Christmas Memory, poem by James Whitcomb Riley.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Previous tenants : some midnight visitors in an old house in Washington Square.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!

– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemble (The cake walk interrupted … African Americans at a church social event), Otto Toaspern (A bachelor’s acknowledgment).
– Two page centerspread art by T. S. Sullivant (Is this to be the result The trotting horse is becoming popular with the aristocracies of Europe.)
– Some current events include : Ambassador Bayard said some indiscreet things in his Edinburgh address, Anthony Comstock arrested and arraigned a man named Benson for soliciting subscriptions for a fake magazine, Colonel Ingersoll, Josiah Quincy has been elected Mayor of Boston, Dr. Ahlwardt, Difference between Barnard College and Girton (doesn’t give degrees).
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!

– Full page art or cartoon art by Hy Mayer (landscape format : an excursion on the Nile).
– Two page centerspread art by F. T. Richards (A hearty welcome, and fair play … America’s Cup yacht race theme).
– Some current events include : The building owned by John B. Ireland on West Broadway fell while under construction killing 20 some workmen (poorly designed and built because Ireland was a skinflint), Young woman arrested in Central Park for riding astride, Library of Congress librarian Spofford is bad at keeping accounts.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1895   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Broughton (almost full page : The Best of Reasons), unsigned (two reporters standing at the doorway to hell), Hy Mayer (almost full page : Doings in the Deep … things happened unseen below a fisherman’s pier).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Fooled again,” Cupid looking at manikins in a store window.
– Some current events include : September is the true beginning of the year, Missionaries being killed in China, Turks and Armenians fighting, America’s cup yacht race.
– And more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

– Two page centerspread art by Albert Beck Wenzell (When she marries a German).

– Some current events include : In 50 or so years Chicago will have 7 million people living in it (2Neat notes : In 1945, Chicago had a population of about 3.5 million), Drainage canal being built from Chicago to Gulf of Mexico, Manufacturers of plug tobacco competing with American Tobacco Company in the manufacture of cigarettes, Peace in Spain first and then autonomy for Cuba.- And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!