Life, 1894-09-06 · page 7 of 16
Life — September 6, 1894 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# "Living Pictures at Hagenbeck's" This page features a satirical illustration mocking the live animal displays at Hagenbeck's (a famous European zoo/menagerie). The central panel labeled "THE GREAT CONCERN" shows animals arranged like humans in a theatrical scene—apes and other creatures appear to mimic human social situations, drama, and behavior. The surrounding smaller sketches emphasize this anthropomorphization, depicting animals engaging in distinctly human activities. The satire suggests that visitors to such exhibitions project human characteristics onto animals, or that the spectacle itself presents animals as crude parodies of human society. Below are unrelated content items: book reviews, a brief comic dialogue about a carpet stain, and period advertising illustrations. The page overall demonstrates *Life* magazine's characteristic blend of social satire with miscellaneous content.
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ne Tree Geacee LIVING PICTURES AT HAGENBECK’S. bells. Ina few hours the train will be starting back to town, and that over-scrupulous young murderer will go back with me, conscious that he took the heart out of what might have been a pleasant holiday. ) Droch. “NEW BOOKS. y OOR FOLK. By F. Dostoievsky. Translation by Lena Milman, Boston: Roberts Brothers. The EbbTide. By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Chicago and Cambridge: Stone and Kimball. The Sorrows of Werther. By Johann Wolfgang Goethe. New York: The Mascot Publishing Company. A Superflucus Woman. New Vork: The Cassell Publishing Company. The Queen of Ecuador. By R.M. Manley, New York: The H. W. Hagemann Publishing Company. oc Vashti and Esther, New York: D. Appleton and Company. 7 A MATTER OF OBSERVATION. aa oe 3 Thar’ 5 “Soy, CHIMMY, WHO'S DE QUEER LOOKIN’ BLOKE IKE (eating the carpet): What's that spot there that’s SO wits’, Goin’ UP DE STREET?” worn? . . he a . “WuHy, bAT’s DE LIVIN’ WISHBONE FROM DF Mary: Oh, that must have been just in front of the missis’ mirror. Graxp CentTRAL Mooseum,” comicbooks.com