Life, 1888-05-10 · page 16 of 16
Life — May 10, 1888 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertisements** from an American magazine (Life), circa late 1880s. There are no political cartoons or satirical content to analyze. The ads reflect period consumer culture: typewriters (Remington), bicycles, portable cottages, champagnes, and toiletries like Pears Soap. Of historical note, **Pears Soap's advertisement uses language promoting "fair white hands" and "bright clear complexion"**—phrasing that reflects 19th-century beauty standards and racial attitudes of the era, though the ad itself doesn't contain explicit racist imagery on this page. Other notable ads include Baker's Breakfast Cocoa (claiming health benefits), Kinney cigarettes, and writing machines—all marketed as modern conveniences to affluent readers. **This is essentially a catalog page showing what affluent Americans purchased in the 1880s, not satirical content.**
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REMINGTON STANDARD TYPEWRITER WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT. 327 BROADWAY, - - NEW YORK. Norn.—Our unqualified challenge for a test of all Writ. ing Machines remains unaccepted. Send for copy it interested. CUMBIA BICYCLES - aul E RICYCLES ai (eT ANDEMS GUARANTEED = HIGHEST GRADE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE - FREE ——* Pope Mra.Co. 79 FRANKLIN ST- BOSTON Brancili2 WARREN st. NeW YoRK Houses||29! WABASH AVE.CHICAGO, BS PORTABLE COTTACES LL sizes. Especially designed for Hunt- ing, Fishing and Camping. Other styles and designs for Residences, Children’s Playhouses, etc. Send stamp for cataogue. NORMAN BARBOUR, 81 New St., N.Y. DELBECK+ EXTRA DRY and Procurable Everywhere. ‘aroqmsioag o1quano0rg We offer the DELBECK CHAMPAGNES with a full conviction that there are no better wines imported. WE EXCEPT NONE. E. La MONTAGNE & Sons, utter tectrmetrrtrt Phar ether die cetera oho es, 9 Pears Soap Fair white hands. Brightclear complexion Soft healthful skin. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878, BAKER’S Breakfast Cocoa. Warranted absolutely pure Jocoa, from which the excess of Oilhas been removed. It has ¢hree times the strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economi- cal, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthening, easily digested, and , admirably adapted for invalids az well as for persons in health. Sold by Grocers everywhere. W. BAKER & CO, Dorchester, Mass. Publieationsy to Wiscon: fan Fishing Resorts, and descriptive of summer tours via * The Ashland Route" to Lake Superior region, Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast. Address SEO. S. MARSH, G, P. T sy M.,L.S. ew. Ry., Mi KINNEY BROS., STRICTLY PURE HIGH-CLASS CIGARETTES. SPECIAL FAVOuRS Club Size and Opera Size, and Boudoir Size for Ladies. SPECIAL *"3yr2" Specially Selected and Specially Cured Finest Golée Virginia Leaf. Special Rice Paper. EGYPTIAN FLOWERS CIGARETTES. Cleopatra Size. KINNEY TOBACCO CO., Successor, New York, Baltimore, Richmond and Danville, The only manufacturer of special cigarettes. See that ty company’s certificate is on each package, unbroken. «CALIGRAPH WRITING NMIACHINE Price, $8 5.00 .00 It Stands at the Head! 20,000 in daily use. For printed matter, etc., address —:THE MOST: -— Practical, Durable and Rapid WRITING MACHINE FOR THE Office, Library, and Family. THE AMERICAN WRITING MACHINE CO., New York Branch, 237 Broadway. “BLACK TOP” RRO THE BEST CHAMPACNE. Francis 0. de Luze & Co., Sole Agents, N.Y. ALL ABOUT CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. I order to understand the vast region west of the Rockies, read The Overland Monthly, Four dollars a year. One sample copy, 25 cents. THE OVERLAND MONTHLY, San Francisco HARTFORD, CONN: THE WINE OF < EXTRA ORY, OR BRUT. Du Vivier x60. 49 Broan Sr, NewYork. Ne Wines, Branpies &C- comicbooks.com