Life, 1893-05-04 · page 2 of 16
Life — May 4, 1893 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains commercial advertisements for late 19th-century businesses: - **Whiting M'fg Co.**: A silversmith advertising solid silver goods, featuring a commemorative medallion from the 1892 Columbian Exposition (Chicago's World's Fair) - **R.H. Macy & Co.**: Department store listing decorative home goods - **Brewster & Co.**: Carriage manufacturer - **Flandrau & Co.**: Also a carriage/pleasure vehicle company with illustrations of their vehicles - **Stern Bros**: Millinery shop - **Penn Mutual Life**: Insurance company with a philosophical advertisement about life insurance The only visual content is product illustrations (coins, carriages) and company logos. There are no political cartoons or satirical commentary visible on this page. It represents typical *Life* magazine advertising from the 1890s.
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corrmect ron OREAT emTAIN BY iAMES meNCERSO® Uncen THe ACT OF 10 Solid Silver Exclusively. STERLING WHITING M'F’G CO. Silversmiths, Broadway & 18th Street, NEW YORK, “™ MACY «oo. 6th AVENUE, 13th to 14th STREET, N. Y. (4th FLOOR NEW BUILDING.) Mexican Onyx Clocks and Mantel Sets, Library Lamps and Cabinets, Dresden and Vienna Cabinet Specimens, Cararra & Castellina Marble, Busts, Groups, Statuettes. Embracing over two-hundred subjects, including some of the best examples of ITALIAN ART ention of customers is invited to our LADIES’ PARLOR on fourth building. Furnished to insure rest from the fatigue incident to » to the exhibition of paintings by the celebrated Genre artist, J. ESQ., N. A., composing cighteen of his most important studies. FLANDRAU & Co., 372, 374, 376 BROOME ST. Pleasure Vehicles for Town and Country. All Standard Designs and Novelties, LARGEST STOCK FINISHED VEHICLES IN THE WORLD. LIFE HAVE HEMONe To 4) Broadway & (8th 2 Designed Elihu Vedder. E: aeeuted Whiting’ MC g Co. Stern Bros invite special attention to their Millinery Departments are exhibiting Brewster & Co. (Of Broome St.) Broadway, 47th to 48th St. Only Place of Business. Manutacturers of sn which they choice and exclusive styles Pleasure Vehicle] ¢ Every Variety of Trimmed Hats ana Bonnets embodying the 1's cf the best foreign their own design West 23d For Town and Country Use. Four-in-Hands and Tandems A SPECIALTY. All you have guessed about life insurance may be wrong. If you PAY wish to know the truth, send for ‘How and Why," issued by the POST rss storoas Live, 921-35 AGE chestnut street, Philadelphia. WE comicbooks.com