Life, 1890-02-20 · page 2 of 18
Life — February 20, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is primarily **advertisements** rather than political satire or editorial cartooning. The main content includes ads for: - Brewster & Co. carriages (with a Victorian-era illustration of two women in a carriage) - Lily d'Or perfume - Soden Mineral Springs for throat ailments - Remington Standard Typewriter (claiming a Paris Exposition gold medal) - New York Security and Trust Co. The single illustration—two fashionable women in a horse-drawn carriage—is **commercial artwork** promoting luxury vehicles, not satire. The women's dialogue appears to joke about perfume preferences rather than make social commentary. This appears to be a typical Life magazine page from the late 19th or early 20th century, when such publications mixed editorial content with substantial advertising revenue.
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New York Security and Trust Co. Tow AND COUNTRY 46 WALL STREET. Capital, $1,000,000. Surplus, $500,000, — CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD, President. — 2 WM, H, APPLETON, WM. L. STRONG, rst Vice-President. ad Vice-President. JOHN L. LAMSON, Secretary, THIS Conpiey wasagind orci Recor, tewee| Every variety popular and useful for seaside legal depostory lor Court tod ‘rast Fonds, Takes the tire Charge of real and-perooal caacen catectne ve(ANG inland resorts and for Park driving. rents and profits, and attending to all such details as an individual in like capacity could do. mare Rennes eect grass Unequaled for beauty of form and perfection — lof finish. . USE All parts entering into details of construction Lily d'Or manufactured on the premises. aie Exquisite BREWSTER & CO. (OF BROOME STREET), BROADWAY, 47th TO 48th ST., NEW YORK. : Walid! FLORAL Am Ne DELICATE, LASTING. Sold by Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers. W. H. SCHIEFFELIN & CO., NEW YORK DISTRIBUTING AGENTS. COUGHS, SORE THROAT. The highest medical authorities of the world prescribe and recommend the SODEN MINERAL PAS- TILLES for Diseases of the Throat, Chest and Luogs, and also for Consumption. Mistress;—Take away all those perfumes, I want nothing In future but this delicious Crah-Apple Blossoms. Maid :—Yea, Madam. * Your Soden Mineral Pastilles in gastro-duodenal indi- gestion serve an admirable purpose.” H. N. HEINEMANN, M. D., HL, Wiahant Reaand OF AGOLD MEDAL D..t. Tonnnteinn, wgensanicisare tetera! The Highest Awar ‘arrae Paris Exposition | fbr Eauenen Hrs, Asa's Med, Examiver in New York - | toca san te REMINGTO SODEN MINERAL SPRINGS CO., Limited, PHD ES 7 ST AND ARD TYPEWRITER 1s CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK. ——— = x > | Which has been for fifteen years the standard and embraces the latest and TO THE YOUNC FACE highest achievements of inventive skill. Pozzoni's Complexion Powder gives freshe1 WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, charms, to the old renewed youth. Try it, 327 Broadway, New York. 's . At all druggists at as cts, and so cts, a box. comicbooks.com