Life, 1897-09-02 · page 2 of 20
Life — September 2, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The left side contains a Waltham Watch Company advertisement promoting their timepieces, emphasizing they're "the first American company" organized for watch production and recommending their "Riverside" model as combining quality with affordability. The right side features an illustration of a figure in ornate military dress with a plumed hat and sword, labeled "Framed Proofs of Originals from Life." This appears to be promotional material offering readers the ability to purchase framed reproductions of drawings published in Life magazine, available through the Life Publishing Company in New York. The page represents typical early 20th-century magazine content: commercial advertisements interspersed with house promotion of the publication's merchandise.
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*>LIFE-: *YOU CAN HAVE The Foening sent to you while away, and the address changed as often as desired. month, 75 cents. Orders may be sent to 1242 Pasl Two weeks, 36 cents; one Broadway, or to Main Office, 206-210 Broadway. WALTHAM WATCHES Ask your jeweler for a WaLTHAM watch and he will supply it, no matter if he happens to have personal prejudices in favor of some other. Insist upon having a WaLTHAM and no other. There are other American watches and other American watch companies, but none of them can make a WaLTHAM watch. The American Waltham Watch Company is the first American company; the first to be organ- ized (nearly half a century ago), and the first at the present time in the quality and WALTHAM watches are all good time-keepers—some of them better suited for one class of service, some for another. We particularly recommend the move- ment engraved with our trade-mark “Riverside,” as combining high quality and medium price. volume of its product. AMERICAN WaLTHAM WaAtTCH Co., Waltham, Mass. For sale by all jewelers. COPYRIONT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES KENDERDON ramed Proofs OF... ORIGINALS FROM LIFE. ROOES of any of the original drawings {rom LIFE will be furnished on application, svit- ably and daintily framed in either a gilt or a Jap- anese oak frame. Large double-page proofs, in- cluding frame and transportation within 100 miles of New York, $4.00. Single page, or smaller proofs, $2.00. Proofs without frames at half the above rates. Make selections from files of LIFE, and state, when ordering, the particular style of frame de- sired, and orders will be promptly filled. Proofs are the same gine as they appear in LIFE. Send for or LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 19 & 21 W. 31st Street, New York.