Judge, 1917-08-11 · page 21 of 28
Judge — August 11, 1917 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertisement**, not political satire. Judge's Art Print Department is selling five color paintings by prominent illustrators—James Montgomery Flagg, Mary Lane McMillan, and Paul Stahr—for one dollar total (25 cents each). The reproduced artworks shown include titles like "Wall-Nuts," "Good-Night Nurse," "Captain Kidd's Treasure," "Reddy Maid Suits," and "All the Comforts of Home." These appear to be humorous genre scenes typical of early 20th-century American illustration. The page functions as a mail-order solicitation: readers clip the coupon, enclose payment (bill, check, or money order), and send it to Judge's New York office to receive framed prints. This represents how magazines of this era generated revenue by selling reproductions of artwork to readers seeking affordable home decoration.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
August 11, 1917 Five brilliant paintings by James Montgomery Flagg Mary Lane McMillan Paul Stahr in full colors, 9x12 inches, mounted ona < coe SS heavy mat, ready for edeniraic 1 the frame, for One Dollar (25 cents apiece) Just pina bill, check, money-order or : y stampsto the coupon eae below, fill in your name, and send it in to-day to the Art Print Department. JUDGE ART PRINT DEPARTMENT 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City 1 ! I 1 l I I enclose $1.00. I I ' ' t