Life, 1892-06-23 · page 15 of 16
Life — June 23, 1892 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with no political cartoons or satirical content. It features commercial advertisements typical of 1890s America: **Key Advertisements:** - **Kodaks** (Eastman Company): Cameras ranging $6-$65, promoting the new consumer photography market - **Fashion/Clothing**: Krakauer tailoring, Leoty's corsets, riding habits - **Personal Care**: Pozzoni's complexion powder, Woodbury's facial soap - **Spirits**: Overholt whiskey, Eau de Cologne - **Furniture/Recreation**: White Mountain hammock chairs, whist player guides - **Publications**: "Two Tales" weekly magazine featuring short stories by contemporary writers **Historical Context for Modern Readers:** This page reflects 1890s consumer culture: the rise of branded products, mail-order commerce, photography as an emerging hobby, and women's fashion/beauty industries. The advertisements target middle and upper-class consumers with disposable income. Names like Dromgoole, Hawthorne, and Scott indicate the literary prestige associated with the magazine. No satire or political commentary is present—this is straightforward commercial content.
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Krakauer, LADIES’ TAILOR, 391 Fifth Avenue, Cor, 36th Rtreet, NEW YORK. £ IDING HABITS in all the latest styles and improvements. MODERATE PRICES Strictly Tailor-Made GOWNS, from $75.00 JACKETS, “ 45.00 HABITS, ‘0.00 Perfect Fit Guaranteed. ELEGANCE PARISIENNE. MADAME LEOTY’S CORSETS Hygienic. PERFECTLY MODELLED. These Celebrated Corsets are of the latest fashion, and are procurable in New York and the principal cities of U.S.A. from all the best Ladies’ Outfitters, who are being supplied DIRECT FROM PARIS. Lapies are requested to ask for Mdme. Leoty’s Paris Corsets. Esrastisnco 1610, ) OVERHOLT PENNSYLVANIA PURE RYE WHISKEY. THE FIRST DISTILLERY AKING THE ORIGINAL OLD MONONGAHELA. HE FINEST WHISKEY IN THE WORLD. toa | BR. ana oven &e., &e., - LIFE: Regular Junior Folding Daylight Ordinary KODAKS Styles and sizes for the season of 1892. $6.00 to $65.00. Latest improvements, Registers for Exposures, Glass Plate Attachments, Daylight Loading, Send for catalogue, THE EASTMAN COMPANY, Rocuaster, N. Y. Complexion Powder 1s a delicate and refined preparation that the most fastidious ladics do not hesitate to use. It is fragrant and refreshing and is never unpleasantly noticeable, The test of time is perhaps most assuring, and Pozzoni’s Complexion Powder has steadily gained im popularity for thirty years, Try it. For Sale Everywhere. DRESS SHIELDS, BEST IN THE WORLD. At Macy's, Bloom- Fedo fa ingdale's Ridley’s, Hearn's, and at all Grst-class stor: WHIST PLAYERS: fe8lenat Whist! iIwaukee, Wis. White:Mountain Ham- mock Chair. For the House, Lawn, Porch and Camp. Is Ohook Full of Oomfort and that there is a bicycle lead- ing all bicycles, out-wear- ing all bicycles, satisfying everybody. Let every lov- er of healthful happiness send to any Columbia agent and obtain free a copy of Book about Colum- bias, or send two two-cent stamps to Pope Mfg. Co., 221 Columbus Ave., Bos- ton, that he may know WOODBURY'S FACIAL SOAP ) For the Skin, Sealp and Complexion. / ‘Tho result of LO years’ expertenci treating skin diseases, Yor tale by jets, or sent by mail for SOc." A Sample Cake and 145 JOHN H, WOODBURY, Dermatological Institute, 125 W. 42d St., New York City. - TWO TALES is the name of anew weekly which contains two new, original, complete short stories, and nothing else, in each Bhat, issuc. The first ten numbers contain stories by’ the fol- », lowing writers: 7 | . Ie. 4 Flizabeth Cavazza EAU DE _ | (gem RW ACMmacaiamae «|i: Peters " 1 Angeline Teal * 1 Charles McIlvaine COLOGNE (| - 3, {Maurice Thompson | g § Barrett Wendell 34 ) Frances A. Dought: Isabelle Williams Undoubtedly the finest and i | Mrs Burton Harrison | | Maud Howe most refreshing perfume. a - Will Allen Dromgoole | _”* Maria Louise Poo! Imported into the United States } Ellen Olney Kiri 4a, {fons Heara, Je. heen ats D.C. Scott julia Schayer 0. 8. AGENTS, Any of these numbers will be sent FREE upon appli MULHENS & KROPFF, cation. Mention Live when you write. Ten Cents a copy. Four Dollars a year. NEW YORK. TWO TALES PUBLISHING COMPANY, 8 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass, comicbooks.com