Life, 1900-01-11 · page 2 of 20
Life — January 11, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Content Analysis This page is primarily **advertising rather than satire or political commentary**. The left side advertises LIFE magazine subscriptions ($5.00 for one year) and includes an illustration labeled "WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY" showing what appears to be early 1900s communication technology—likely depicting people using telegraph or early radio equipment. This reflects contemporary fascination with modern technology. The right side contains commercial advertisements for "The Linen Store" (James McCutcheon & Co.), Whitman's Chocolates and Confections, and Whiting's Papers stationery company. The image serves as a sample of Mr. Gibson's artistic proofs available in a catalogue, suggesting this is from Life's early commercial operations around 1900.
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LIFE'S LATEST... eE—oooooo————— AND BEST OFFER $8.50 Value for $5.00 net. This is a sample in miniature of one of Mr. Gibson's proofs. Under this offer you are entitled to select from our © Copyright, 1899, by Lye Pubtisding Co. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, NEW SUBSCRIBERS WHO SEND $5.00 WILL RECEIVE IFE for one Year . . . . ww ee « $5,00 LIFE’S Easter and Christmas numbers for 1900.50 An Artist’s Proof, size 15x20, on Japan paper, mounted ready for framing . . 2... . And in addition your choice of any one of the follow- ing publications, the retail price of which is . 2.00 1.00 $8.50 THE OUT-OF-DOOR CALENDAR FOR 1900, by Blashfield, or PREDICAMENTS, by Shipman, a Book of Short Stories, or MYTHOLOGY FOR MODERWS, by Metcalfe, or THE YANKEE NAVY, by Masson, or TAKEN FROM + LIFE,"' a Book of Verses. ALI. RICHLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF 160 EXAMPLES OF PROOFS, LIKE SAMPLE, ABOVE, HY GIBSON, HANNA, GILBERT AND OTHERS, FOR SELECTION, SENT ON RECEIPT OF 10 CENTS, LIFE PUBLISHING CO. 19 WEST 31st STREET NEW YORK || Chocolates.a d Ce mnfections | Registered Trade Mark. “THE LINEN STORE.” ‘Annual Sal catalogue of 150 subjects, a proof, 15x20, with mat, ready for | Table Cloths and Napkins, Hemstitched Table Linen, Hemmed & Hemstitched Towels, Linen Sheets and Pillow Cases, Blankets and Comfortables, Commenced Tuesday, January 2d, and continues throug! out the month, The goods are all thoroughly reliable, and at very low price Send for booklet, giving details and prices. James [icCutcheon & Co) 14 West 23d Street, N. Y. ELEGANT STATIONER at one time might have bees luxury— Now it is a Necessity. Name | on the Box § guarantees the con- &| ~>~—__tents to beg the most § ( delicious § One is not in good form usiq a cheap paper, and nothing criticised more than the pay used in correspondence. A Good or Bad Impression gained eck taal aera is formed by the stationery o product a |] uses. Always insist on havitf) of candy § Whiting's Papers. making skill. g Always ask for Whitman’s We know of no dealer does not carry these goods stock or cannot get them for ye Something is wrong if he oa not supply the papers made the largest manufacturers fine correspondence paper in ti) world. WHITING PAPER C Designers of Art Stationery . and Paper Makers NEW YORK Whitman's fomantea us Chocolate {8 perfect In flavor and qualtty, delicious Bealthful, ‘Made tostantly ‘with bolling mile COPYRIGHT FOR GRCAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENOEREON UNCER THE ACT OF 1801.