Life, 1896-08-20 · page 2 of 20
Life — August 20, 1896 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine Advertisement Section This page is primarily **advertising rather than editorial content**. It contains four advertisements: 1. **Life's Comedy** — promoting the third installment of a serialized comic collection titled "The American Family," featuring drawings by Gibson, Wenzel, Van Schaick, and others. Priced at 25 cents. 2. **Framed Proofs** — offering original artwork from Life magazine, available framed or unframed at various prices ($2-$4). 3. **Racycles** — advertising narrow-tread, two-speed bicycles manufactured by Miami Cycle Company. 4. **"Chip's" Dogs** — a $1 collection of humorous dog drawings by the cartoonist "Chip," popular in Life's columns. The page reflects early 1900s advertising targeting middle-class consumers interested in humor, home décor, and leisure activities.
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-LI FE: LIFE’S COMEDY. HE third number of Lire's Comepy, de- voted to The American Family NOW READY Contains thirty-two pages of beautifully printed illustra- tions on heavy calendered paper, with a specially deco- * rated cover printed in colors. PRICE, 25 CENTS Subscriptions, One Dollar a Year, Postage Paid. Drawings by Gibson, Wenzell, Van Schaick, Johnson, Sullivant, and others. MITCHELL .& MILLER, Publishers, 19 & 21 West 31st Street, New York City. Framed Eats Original from LIFE ROOFS of any of the original drawings from LIFE will be furnished, suitably and daintily framed, on application. Large doubk. page drawings, including frame and transportatice within 100 miles from New York City, $40 Smaller drawings, $2.90. Proofs without frames at half the abor prices. Make selections from files of LIFE avi orders will be promptly filled. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 19 and 21 West sist Street, New York City. RACYCL ES] NARROW TREAD. .% TWO SPEED. MANUFACTURED BY THE MIAMI CYCLE COMPANY, Middletown, 0. NEW YORK ) NEW JERSEY | General Agency. PHILADELPHIA J) GERARD M. BARRETTO, aaent. STEVENSON, Manager. - ad od CHARLES A, TREAD 43% INCHES. “LUVdV S3HONI & SONIYNVIE OCTAIL VIEW CRANK HANGER, Balls directly under the cranks. | Sprocket suspended between tae bearing. FOR SALE AT 1773 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. E, W. Fellowes, 69 West sasth Street. Listy Wallack, ow fe Branch, N. J, M. E. Flaherty, 685 Bedford Avenue, 1A: it for New Jerse: eeere Brooklyn. aoe nH. Riddick, 1773 Broadway. ° “Chip’s” Dogs. A collection of humorous drawings by the famow “CHIP,” so well known in the columns of Lire and | sisemtecrs. Large Quarto 9% x 12, on plate paper, | handsomely bound, Price, $1.00. For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent postpaid to ay address on receipt of price by the publishers. R. H. Russell & Son, 33 Rose St, NEW YORK. COPTAVONT FOR GREAT ORITAIN BY JAWES MERDERSON UNOER THE Aor OF 1091,