Life, 1898-08-11 · page 12 of 20
Life — August 11, 1898 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# "The Price of Pets" This satirical illustration depicts wealthy individuals riding atop large, anthropomorphized animals—appearing to be pigs or similar creatures—suggesting a critique of the wealthy indulging in luxury pets or extravagant animal ownership. The accompanying text, titled "Crying Authorities" and credited to "Under Parker Kelsey Victor's Patronage," appears to discuss the cost and impracticality of maintaining expensive pets. The satire seems to mock the upper classes for prioritizing animal luxuries while (based on the visible text fragments mentioning "poor" and "animals") presumably ordinary people struggled economically. This reflects Life magazine's characteristic style of mocking wealthy excess and social inequality through exaggerated visual humor.
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