Life, 1896-03-19 · page 2 of 20
Life — March 19, 1896 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Content Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The left side features an advertisement for **Red Fern, a ladies' tailor and habit maker** at 210 Fifth Avenue, New York, showcasing fashionable women's clothing including bicycle suits, imported models, picture gowns, and historical creations. The central and right portions contain advertisements for: - **Raymond & Whitcomb travel agency** offering tours to Colorado, California, Alaska, Yellowstone, Europe, and Japan - **Hilton, Hoag & Co.** promoting new dress fabrics and textiles - **Stern Bros.** displaying trimmed millinery (hats, bonnets, and toques) for spring wear The illustration of an elegantly dressed woman in a large hat is a **fashion advertisement**, not political satire. This appears to be a standard magazine page from the early 1900s focused entirely on retail promotion.
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“LIFE ea Nedfan Ladies’ Tailor and habit Maker. | Bicycle Built Suits. Arrival of Imported Models. Picture Gowns. 210 FIFTH AVENUE, SNornol) Constable KALa, Rich Laces. Bridal Veils, Flounces, Lace Collars, Lace Handkerchiefs. Empbroideries. Embroidered All-Overs, Edgings, Insertions. Men’s Driving Gloves, Ladies’ Riding Gloves. UMBRELLAS, ‘PARASOLS. Broadway « A sgtb ot. “eo YORK. | FOURTH AVE. THE NEW DRESS STUFFS in the great Rotunda, and close by, were talked of Every beauty of the display, every novelty is there yet—and more and belier—save the flowers and the New pailerns, new elegancies in Silks, in Silks-and- | Wools, Historical Creations. | Revival of | By-gone Days. Mantelets. NEW YORK. 'e GROADWAY RE 1OSe all over lown. greenery. | coming in all the lime. | and price-lemplingness go. DRESS GOODs. Canvas Broche, raised figures of silk on two-toned etamine grounds, 5 choice color combines, 48 in., $4. Mozambique, silk-and-wool, mosaic figures, produced from printed warp, 5 combinations, 46 in., $4. Frisse Crepon, choicest crinkly tri- color effects, 48 in., $3.75. |Etamine, silk-and-wool, grounds with embossed flowers and vines of silk, 5 color blends, 46 in., $3. Mohair-and-silk Novelty, 48 in., shaded chameleon effects, very lustrous, $3.25. Changeable Vigoreux, saphire-and-tan, magenta-and-sage and havana-and- goblin, 46 in., $2. Sucerssons ToAT. Stewart & Co, in All-Wools, and in filmy, billowy, We mean to make this the Dress | | Stuff centre of the city, so far as variety, freshness, fiiness lace-like) SPECIAL VESTIBULE TRAINS, With Dining an will leave New York in April COLORADO, The Pacific ALA id Library Cars, for Comprehensive Tours to CALIFORNIA, Northwest, Sk A AND THE YELLOW The Wonderland STONE PARK, of America, etc. Tours to Europe, Japan, Etc., Etc. Railroad and Steamship Tickets to All Points. Send for special descriptive circular, mentioning information desi RAYMOND & 31 East Fourteenth St.. Lincoln Bi Cottons are | BLACK GOODS. 1,800 yds. Mohair Sicilians, bright lus- tre, perfect color, $4 in., 7§C., the $1.25 kind. French Crepons, silk-and-wool, mo- hair-and-wool, rich, deep crinkles, | newest weaves, $1.50, $2, $2.25, $2.50, $3. English Crepons, fine wool with mohair face, stripes, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2| 45 in. Storm Serge, double twisted. per- fect black, §0¢. yd.; 75c. grade. Granite-and-soliel, fine wool-and-mo- hair Brocades, of patterns, $1.25. English and French Armures and Jacquards, 30 styles, 75¢.; good great variety red. WHITCOMB, ullding, Union Square, New York. Stern Bro are now disp.aying In their Trimmed Millinery Departments | a choice collection of Ladies’ Hats, Bonnets and Toque Imported and Their own designs For Early Spring Wear. value at $1. so}in. mohair-and-wool Cheviots, 75¢- West 23d § comicbooks.com