Life, 1886-12-23 · page 14 of 18
Life — December 23, 1886 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire or editorial content. It's from *Life's* December 23, 1886 issue. The bulk of the page consists of luxury retail advertisements targeting wealthy women, particularly for: - **Red Fern** (ladies' tailor on Fifth Avenue) advertising designer gowns and fur coats - **James McCreery & Co.** selling seal-skin fashion items (sacques, wraps, jackets, newmarkets, dolmans) with prices ranging $75–$275 - **John Patterson & Co.** offering tailoring services - Various publishers advertising gift books for the 1887 holiday season The seal-skin fur products are particularly prominent—these represented expensive status symbols for affluent Gilded Age women. There are no visible political cartoons or satirical commentary on this page. It appears to be a typical *Life* magazine advertising section designed to appeal to the magazine's wealthy urban readership.
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ii ag Ned fern. LADIES’ TAILOR. Mr. Redfern will dispose of his remaining Model Gowns, Ulsters and et Require SPECIAL Wraps of latest designs at cost price, to make room for Spring Novelties. Biehite i ial Some superior quality Fur Jackets and Mantles will also be offered ANNOUNCEMENT. at greatly reduced prices. English Silk Mackintoshes, in entirely new designs, have just been received. These goods can be purchased only Srom the Redfern Establishments. 210 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. J McC & ( raiment ne sent eo | AMOuncement for 1887. ames MC reery 0. SONGS : roo pieces choice music écents. Catalogue | LIPPINCOTT’S MAGAZ free. P. O. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine. | wi] contain a comme novd (not novelette) in every nun} SEAL SKIN _SACQUES. ARTISTIC PRESENTS OF ber, besides usual miscelli ae PERMANENT VALUE. neous THAtLSE: Novels by wa : , 00. ' ; , nown authors, John Habbe se ane oo ne “sep vem eee se . HTigh-class proof Etchings, cost- ton, Julian Hawthorne, M deep, 99. | | tne, with suctable frame, from $70 | Frances H. Burnett, Mrs. L. 42 and 44 Ins. deep, from 115.00. upward. . Lillie, M. G. McClelland, an ‘ ay _ | others. January numbej Specialty of rarities unprocur- | % SINFIRE,” complete novd SEAL SKIN WRAPS. able elsewhere. Visitors invited to| yy Julian Hawthorne, and aii aa call and examine. A new zllus-| satirical poem by Rose Eli —— From $85.00. — | trated and descriptive catalogue by | abeth Cleveland. $3.00 pq —— - mal, price ro cents. annum: Sample copys 25 el : J. B. Lippincott Company, SEAL SKIN JACKETS, - Frederick Keppel & Co., Lon- PiMladelphia. don, and 23 East 16th Street | — Saran oaee OPEN TILL TEN P.M. UNTIL CHRISTMAS. secretary, Gen. A. L. Long, and embracing material of a private and personal nature never before as ae lished. Agents are reporting great sales—one toot ~ Seal Skin Newmarkets ONE should FAIL to examine the orders in one day. Large octavo volume, fully illus its of the with steel plates, etc., containing the maps used by Lal ; ment his campaigns, together with a large map of the enti of war, from Gettysburg to Appomattox. Over 700 p IMPERIAL BURNER, Bound'in eloth ; price, $3.75- vhicl ive ills - Agents wanted who can sell it, on application, to which gives the most brilliant and per- pine: Grate Grae Bok fect light produced by any Lamp J. M. STODDART & co., Publishey of Lamps specially imported this season 51 inches deep, $225.00. by 5S inches deep, 250.00. BENNETT B. SCHNEIDER, 56 inches deep, 275.00. 37 Park Place, New York. —— From $75.00, —— 65 inches deep, $275.00. The best satisfaction guaranteed, or you PRESERVES AND SOFTENS THE LRATHER, FORA CONTAINS NO SHELLAC OR ACID. JOHN PATTERSON & CO. | *!"GPin xtw onceens eeroatrion, MUFFS, BOAS, &. | oe Tailors & Tmporters, KIMBALL’S SATIN B People of refined tas Wo. 436 Sirth Avenue, pig desire exception Straight Cut, put up in si packets and boxes of 108. ies’ meee artment, os. and 100s. 14 Prise Me Haas Fite Bvenue, | Mew Work, by Besa S. KIMBALL & From $1.00 to $55.00 per yard. BROADWAY AND 11th STREET.