Life, 1892-05-12 · page 14 of 18
Life — May 12, 1892 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **commercial advertisement page** with no political cartoons or satirical content. The page showcases luxury goods and services typical of 1890s America. **Key advertisers include:** - **Redfern**: High-end dress and baby clothing maker featuring French design ($85 for summer gowns—expensive for the era) - **Hotel Fauchere & Howland Hotel**: Upscale summer resorts in Pennsylvania and Long Branch - **Overholt Rye Whiskey**: Premium liquor brand - **James McCreery & Co.**: Upscale department store advertising summer dress goods - Various patent medicines and luxury items (Liebig's Beef Extract, Baume Hygienique) **Context for modern readers:** This reflects the Gilded Age's consumer culture—wealthy Americans purchasing imported European fashions, vacationing at resort hotels, and consuming luxury products. The French branding and "expert French artists" signify prestige. The page reveals what affluent Americans valued: European sophistication, leisure travel, and refined fashion.
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- LIFE - ~ REDFERN Dress and Babit Maker. Cool Foulard Gowns, in Daintiest Summer Shades, 685, Indian Cloths of the finest texture for early Sum- % mer wear, in appropriate designs and newest shades, fitted by expert French artists, spel engaged for this New Department, THE SUCCESS OF THE SEASON is the “COWES” YACHTING SUIT, N80 WITH “SLEEVELESS” COAT 210 FIFTH AVENUE and 1132 BROADWAY, NOW YORE CITY. SEASON OF ’92. HOTEL FAUCHERE Elegant and first-class in all its appointments. CUISINE FRANCAISE Summer resort among the mountains, above the Delaware River. Magnificent scenery, healthful, no malaria, no mos- quitoes, delightful drives, good roads, boating, fishing. Ls. FAUCHERE, Pror., Milford, Pike Co., Pa. LONG BRANCH. HOWLAND HOTEL Will Open June 25. 7 PAUL. MinneSota. ESTABLISHED 1810, Overholt PENNSYLVANIA PURE RYE WHISKEY. The Finest Rye Whiskey in the World. Uaukinhese The New Shape in Hosiery. Save Discomfort and Darning. Women's, soc. Give size shoe. Rates $4.50 per day and upward, Rooms may be en- gaged at real estate office of Dobbins & Loeb, 45 Broad- way, and at the St. James Hotel, New York. Huon F. Gxirrix, Proprietor. Liebig COMPANY'S Extract of Beef. Do you want a cup of Beer Tea? See that it is made from the GENUINE. Incomparably the _ best. Pure, palatable, refreshing. Dissolves clearly. See Baron Liebig's Z. , 2 Men's, 2565 35€05 $C. WAUKENHOSE COMPANY, 76 Chauncy St , Boston, Mass. signature in blue on each label, thus: ‘THE TOURIST. the new monthly magazine for,trav- clers. One dollara year. Utica, N.Y. Exact Size, Perfecto. Hotet Brunswick EQUAL TO ANY IMPORTED CIGAR. We preter you should buy ot our dealer ; if he does not keep them, send wa for sample box of 10, by mail, to JACOB SFAHL, JR., & CO. 168th St. and 3rd Ave., N. ¥. Ulty: DRESS GOODS. What to buy for Summer. All who are preparing for warm weather will be interested in our Opening of Summer Dress Goods—arranged for this week. Thirty cases of European Novelties, Stylish Tweeds, Scotch, French and Irish makes, in tailoring styles, designed to stand hard wear, English Serges, in appropriate shades for travel and sea-side, A line of Navy Striped Serges—pure indigo dyes is specially noted. Summer Cashmere Robes, containing full embroidered skirt, with rich “ Intaglio” borders of Bengaline and needle-work. Serges and Orepes, covered with silk embroi- dery in dots and small sprays, The various sections of our Dress Goods De- partment will contain many other attractions during this exhibit, James McCreery & C0., BROADWAY AND 11th STREET, BAUME HYGIENIQUE. A distinguished Prench savant hae Alscovered !a Nature an ‘siemestt ‘that {s bland and barmbyse in tte action, and particularly benetctal effect, ralaging ‘btammatica, asd by bi tenes. 49 Libe: comicbooks.com