Life, 1897-11-18 · page 2 of 26
Life — November 18, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This page contains **no political cartoons or satirical content**. It is a standard advertising page from *Life* magazine featuring three distinct advertisements: 1. **Gorham Manufacturing Company** - advertising a silverware exhibition at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel during Horse Show Week, showcasing wrought sterling silverware for collectors 2. **Raymond & Whitcomb** - promoting special train tours to California with sleeping, dining, and library cars 3. **Brewster & Co.** - advertising carriages and road wagons from their New York location, noting they've operated at the same address for over twenty-five years The page is purely commercial in nature, reflecting early 20th-century luxury goods and travel services targeting affluent readers.
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SILVERWARE EXHIBITION WALDORF-ASTORIA HE GORHAM COMPANY, SILVERSMITHS, will have on view during the Horse Show Week, in the East Room, WALDORF-ASTORIA, Thirty-fourth Street entrance, from ten A. M. until nine P. M., a collection of WROUGHT STERLING SILVERWARE, representing examples of the handwork of the most skilled artisans of the present day. This exhibition will appeal to collectors of rare silverware and connoisseurs of art metal work. GORHAM MFG. CO. SILVERSMITHS Broadway and 19th Street CALIFORNIA Special vestibuled trains, consisting of sleeping, | BREWSTER & CO., dining, library and obser- (of Broome! Strest's vation cars will leave the | Broadway, 47th to 48th St. eastern cities frequently for California. Informa- dase NEW YORK. tion and circulars about erclagesiend Rosumaccne * The acknowledged standard. them or other trips can be had on application. having been brought:to our notice that we are being con- founded with a defunct concern formerly advertising a similar ‘ Raymond & Whitcomb name, we would inform the pub- lic we are still at the above Tours and Tickets location, where we have been 31 East Fourteenth St., Union Square, West, for over twenty-five years, New York 206 Washington St, Boston, Mass. 1003 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pa. 250 Arcade Dullding, Cleveland, Olle. 95 Adams St., Chicago, IL