Life, 1901-01-31 · page 17 of 20
Life — January 31, 1901 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The ads showcase turn-of-the-century consumer goods and services: **Key advertisements:** 1. **Redfern Corsets** - emphasizes achieving an idealized female silhouette through whalebone construction, reflecting rigid Victorian beauty standards 2. **Alois P. Swoboda** - promotes a physical exercise system claiming to cure constipation, indigestion, and nervous exhaustion; represents the era's pseudoscientific health trends 3. **Kodak** - advertises the new "Pocket Kodak," marketing amateur home photography as an accessible hobby 4. **Arnold Constable & Co.** - luxury lace and embroidery goods for the wealthy 5. **Collier's Weekly** - promotes their magazine by emphasizing superior illustration quality and announcing Hall Caine's serial novel "The Eternal City," with comparative illustrations of "the girl of 1801" versus "1901," subtly suggesting modern women's evolving fashions The page reflects early-1900s consumer culture, emerging photography technology, and idealized femininity through both fashion and advertising rhetoric.
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“Pocket Kodak Portraiture” is the title of a daintily printed and instructive booklet about home picture taking, which has just been issued by the Kodak Press. The illustrations are all from the Kodak of Mr. Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., and include a number of his most : ‘ | charming studies of child life. Free it eso tie Tirst CLass DEALERS at the Kodak dealers’ or by mail, oS 30 29 ; ne 7 Monk SOLID WHALEBONE~ FRENCH GORE -BIAS CUT~ EASTMAN KODAK CO. ed mA Con ST ANGI OF SHAPES TO FIT ALL FIGURES — Rochester, N. Y. LDRODUCE A PERFECT FIGURE’ WITH: AX ‘ASK Your Mencnant “2 AND ELEGANCE THAT WO OINER CORSET Glveee FOR BOOKLET— = REDFERN rconaere COST SOMEWHAT HORE,BUT AREA NECESSITY © DESCRIBING THE DIFFERENT TO A WELL GOWNED WOMAN— THE WARNER BROS. CO. NADE IM THE FINEST QUALITIES OF COUTILS. AND ITALIAM CLOTHS, obs Se 2 NOVELTIES TPA LY EMBROIDERED eattne boeeeeyy “ter Sts hich bodnad tat se ‘ DATISTESLDROCADES AND BROGHES nd elanbe. Le chon tp eoall with perfect an Alois P. Swoboda iagramaeteners 2 | Real Laces. bata few miautex time in your own room Yost before Moe Romie eicrioness byes Metal Work and Lace Robes, Renaissance ore exercisacan be oblaitedin ten iuiuutesthan by aay otset 1a two houry aod it 18 and Chantilly Robes, yone which does notovortax the heart i chi ielethinoniy natural, eany uni spcedy niethod for obtaining pertect health, physical Lace and Gold Allovers, Bands, Chiffons, development and elasticity of mind wad Lous Gauzes, Veilings. Absolutely Cures Constipation, Embroideries. Embroidered had ot re ad ists, Robes, Flouncings, Indigestion, Sleeplessness, ‘and Bands, Nervous Exhaustion Hamburg ‘dgings and Trimmings. . and revitalizes the whole body... Hanalerehiels: ) dal recommend the ae i ALOIS P. SWOBODA, 105 Venetian Bide. CHICAGO. new YORK. vi llier’s W kl vi | Collier’s Weekly although primarily a‘ journal of current events, gives more master- n pieces of current art than any other publication. It not only gives more, but on account of the generous size of its pages, it affords the artist ample field in which to work out his conceptions—a result impossible to obtain in the small pages of the magazines. 4 As a proof of this, look at the work of Howard Pyle, Frederic ed Remington, W. T. Smedley, A. B. Wenzell, H. T. Christy ali- | and Albert Sterner—all of whom have had drawings in recent is" numbers. ur Or better still, send us twenty-five cents and you will receive the nt four February numbers containing the opening chapters of HALL re- / CAINE’S latest and greatest novel, ‘The Eternal City,’ and a proof ha: of the girls of 1801 and 1901. (The proof is 16 x 22 inches.) Ke eli- As the proof alone is worth fifty cents and the price of Collier's ils, : 1 RT Weekly is ten cents a copy, you will see that this is the chance in atten ofa * * time. x in The girl of LIFE The girl of i 3 3 Address COLLIER’S WEEKLY, b | 3 ad 1801 539 West 13th St., New York City, N N.Y.