Life, 1899-12-07 · page 19 of 20
Life — December 7, 1899 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content shows a subscription offer to *Life* magazine for 1900. The central image—credited to Gibson (likely Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the "Gibson Girl")—depicts Victorian-era figures at a dinner table and is labeled "Wireless Telegraphy." This appears to be visual humor about silent dinner companions—a social observation joke about people dining together without conversation, presented as "wireless telegraphy" (a new technology of 1899-1900). The surrounding ads showcase period products: Kodak cameras (emphasizing convenience), Beecham's Pills, malt extract, whiskey, underwear, and golf equipment. The subscription offer itself—$8.50 value for $5.00—is the page's primary message, bundling a year of *Life* with art prints and books. This is essentially a turn-of-the-century magazine promotion page with vintage advertising.
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PEEP EE EEE ttt tet t te ttes Don't fall to try BEECHAM’S PILLS when suffert: wonghion ¢ 0.7 Sorts and Conditions of Rien Johann Hotts uf Malt Extract Ap » (fives Fealth and Streng 3 LIFE'S LATEST AND BEST OFFER 20 cents and $s. eects at drugstores, Kodaks do away with cumbersome plate-holders, heavy, fragile glass plates, and bothersome dark-slides, Just turn a Key— All Koda‘zs use our light-proof film cartridges (which weigh but ounces, where plates weigh pounds) and can be loaded in daylight. Seven styles use either plates or films, Kodaks, $5.00 to $35.00. EASTMAN KODAK CO. boris ad Rochester, N. Y. $8.50 Value for $5.00 net. This isa sample in miniature of one of Mr. Gibson's proofs. Under this ! offer you are en-| titled to select from our catalogue of 150 subjects, a proof, 15x20, with mat, ready for framing. | Copyright, 1899, by Lise Pubtisning Co WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. NEW SUBSCRIBERS WHO SEND $5.00 WILL RECEIVE LYFE for the Year 1900 . ... « $5.00 LIFE’S Easter and Christmas siurabens fox 1900. 50 An Artist’s Proof, size 15x 20, on Japan paper, mounted ready for framing. . . . . And in addition your choice of any one of the following publications, the retail price of which is. . . 1.00 oe THE OUT-OF-D00R CALENDAR FOR 1900, by Blashfield, or PREDICAMENTS, by Shipman, a Book of Short Stories, or MYTHOLOGY FOR MODERNS, by Metcalfe, or THE YANKEE NAVY, by Masson, or TAKEN FROM *° LIFE,’ a Book of Verses. $8.50) ALL RICHLY, ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF 150 EXAMPLES OF PROOFS, LIKE SAMPLE» ABOVE, BY GIBSON, HANNA, GILBERT AND OTHERS, FOR SELECTION, SENT ON RECEIPT OF 10 CENTS. LI FE PU BLISH I NG COo., 19 W. 31st Street, NEW YORK, OVERHOLT High Standard Pennsyl- vania Pure Rye Whiskey. “ Bottled in Bond” direct from the barrel at the Distillery. SEND FOR BOOKLET TO HAY & TODD MEG.CO. YPSILANTI MICH ives FFs HELD the Improved Washburne toma ne novelties, free on requet. American Ring Co, Box 63. Waterbury, Conn, PHOTOS PROM LIFE. Model-stadies for painters and sculptors; | beaaties. stereo: Price List, with 100 . © REALQLD Ylouns “flu ist mutate Recitationa, dialogues, and other entertatn- ment book’, New 123-page catalogue sent free on request. DRAMATIC PUB. CO., p Chicago,