Life, 1900-11-08 · page 2 of 20
Life — November 8, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page is **primarily advertising** rather than editorial content or political satire. The advertisements include: - Hemmway furs (relocation notice) - Life's Gibson Calendar for 1901 - Life's Book for Golfers - Chickering Pianos (the dominant ad, featuring an ornate piano) - Attwood's Pictures (art history book) - Half Portions (short stories collection) - Jaeger pure wool clothing The only potentially satirical element is the **Gibson Girl portrait** on the left side—the iconic idealized woman character created by Charles Dana Gibson that became emblematic of early 1900s American femininity and beauty standards. However, here it serves primarily as promotional material for Life's 1901 calendar rather than social commentary.
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Importer and Maker of Rich Furs Formerly No. 24 East 23d Street Recently No. 275 Fifth Avenue Has removed permanently to No. 8 West 33d Street Opposite Waldorf-Astoria A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR REMODELLING FUR GARMENTS Copyright 1900, by Lye Pubiieding On LIFE’S GIBSON CALENDAR FOR 1903. Price $2.00. 3 i) CHICKERING PIANOS Always unsurpassed and always progres- sive they were never so good as they are now. Professional and popular opinion is witness to the truth of the statement. Other pianos have sold largely because of the abrupt positiveness with which they have been presented. Chickerings shall not suffer for want of publicity and facility. When the Wanamaker Store took over the sell- ing of Chickering Pianos for the vicinage of New York and Philadelphia— The Best Piano that the World ..Has Yet Produced... was offered for sale by The Easiest Buying Method that an Honest Purchaser Could Wish Ask or write us for full information about it. But perhaps you are more interested in the fact that absolutely right. fairand fixed prices have been made on pianos of high character This is an in- novation in piano selling that will be welcomed by all purchasers. The best piano in the world. atthe lowest price for which it can be sold, with the Wanamaker guarantee and service. And not alone the Chickering; for here are the Vose. the Krell. the Haines, the Royal, the Crown— each with highest merit in its class. The most comprehensive assemblage of pianos gathered in any store anywhere. JOHN WANAMAKER New York. FORE! Life's Book for Golfers. A richly illustrated book, carefully printed on heavy paper, dealing ex- clusively with the game of Golf in its amusing and sentimental aspects. Drawings by Gibson, Hanna, Gilbert, Richards, Blashfield, Hutt, and many others. Cover Design by Gibson. Price $2.00, —— ron ot ENT Vostro pr LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, New York. HALF PORTIONS. Fifteen short stories by the cleverest of Live's writers, profusely illustrated and handsomely printed. ATTWOOD’S Aa. Artist’s History of the Last Ten Years of the Nineteenth: Century. E A collection of the clever and satirical pur Price $1.25. PICTURES. vignettes by FRANCIyGILBERT ATTWOOD, New York: illustrating the history of our own time. Brooklyat nt Price $2.00. Philadelphia: Chicago: “GRAND PRIX”