Life, 1883-01-18 · page 16 of 16
Life — January 18, 1883 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains no cartoon or satirical content—it is purely **advertising**. It showcases period product and business advertisements from late 19th-century New York, including: - **W. & J. Sloane**: High-end carpet and rug merchant - **Fairbanks Scales**: Industrial weighing equipment - **James Pyle's Pearline**: A laundry cleaning product marketed as superior to soap - **Hope's Chocolate**: Affordable breakfast chocolate sold in grocery stores - **Renner & Company**: Picture frame manufacturers - **Fine arts dealers and retailers** The ads reflect consumer goods targeting both wealthy households (luxury carpets, fine art frames) and middle-class consumers (cheap chocolate, cleaning products). The Pearline advertisement notably warns against "vile imitations," suggesting competitive market concerns. This is a straightforward commercial page typical of *Life* magazine's revenue model—advertising funded the publication's satirical content published elsewhere.
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- LIFE: W. & J. SLOANE, - ARTISTIC Carpetings. goventies IN Axminster, Brussels, Tapestry. ANCIENT AND MODERN Oriental Rugs and Embroideries, BROADWAY AND NINETEENTH ST., New York. FAIRBANKS STANDARD —SCALES.— PRINCIPAL WAREHOUSE, FAIRBANKS & CO,, NEW YORK. Wilton, | | hard or soft water, without harm to fabric or hands. JAMES FYLES The best thing ever invented to make washing easy, in Requires no soap, and does the work much better. No family should be without it, but see that vile imitations are not pushed upon you. PEARLINE always bear the name of JAMES PYLE, NEW YORK. _. GRADY & McKEEVER, RENNER & COMPANY, DEALERS IN FINE ARTS. Designers and Manufacturers of EVERY DESCRIPTION or PICTURE FRAMES, No. 719 SIXTH AVE., : New York. Hope’s Chocolate, Hope's Chocolate, In fancy boxes (one-sixth of a pound in each box), retails for tencents. Sold by Grocers and Druggists everywhere. Main Store 44 Fulton Street, N. Y. Brancu: B'WAY, Cor. 220 STREET. To make an excellent Breakfast Chocolate take | one quart of Milk and one Box of Hope's Chocolate, | costing ten cents, and boil twenty minutes. QWLISe BROTHERS, 75 & 17 FULTON STREET. mY.