Life, 1901-02-14 · page 2 of 20
Life — February 14, 1901 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains advertisements for three financial institutions and services: 1. **Guaranty Trust Co.** and **Bank of New Amsterdam** — Manhattan banks offering standard financial services 2. **Redmond, Kerr & Co.** — investment securities dealers 3. **Bailey's Pneumatic Whalebone Road Wagons** — a transportation product ad featuring a horse-drawn carriage 4. **The Prudential Insurance Company** — life insurance, using the Rock of Gibraltar as its symbolic "Strength of Gibraltar" The only image with potential narrative interest is Bailey's wagon advertisement, but it's simply a product endorsement showing the wagon in use, not political satire. There are no identifiable caricatures or social commentary visible. The page reflects early 20th-century American financial and commercial advertising.
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Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. NASSAU, CORNER CEDAR STREET. CAPITAL, - - - - - 2,000,000 SURPLUS, - - - 000,000 ‘OR CORPORATION: AL AS GUARDIA E BORLAND, Asst. Treas, and Sec WM. C. EDWARDS, 2d Asst. Treas, and Sec. JOHN GAULT, Manager Foreign Dept. DIRECTORS. Samuel D. Babcock, Adrian Iselin, Jr., Baker, Augustus D. Juilliard, Bowdoin, ie, August Belmont, 1 Charles R. Henderson, Harry Bares Ww FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 2322559" THE BANK OF NEW AMSTERDAM Broadway and 3oth St., N.Y. Branch: Third Ave. and 47th St. CAPITAL, $250,000, SURPLUS AND PROFITS, $475,000 Invites Business, Family, Personal, and Out-of-Town Accounts R. R. MOORE, President C. W. MORSE, Vice-President G. J. BAUMAN, Cashier Directors: ©. T. BARNEY C. W. MORSE FRANK CURTISS H. F. MORSE JOS. J. KITTEL THOS. F. RYAN R. V. LEWIS LOUIS STERN R. R. MOORE F, K. STURGIS FRANK TILFORD Transact a general ~ Redmond, 22" Kerr& Co. )ies"n3: 3 negollate apd BANKERS, issue loans of (rail~ 41 WALL § ‘ \rail> gas compa- nles, ete. Securities hougbt and sold oa comimlsston, DEAL IN High-Grade Investment Securities. Lista of cur offeriogs went on ppiigion PHILADE RRESPOND! BAILEY’S Pneumatic Whalebone Road Wagons Are extreme only in Refined E,xcellence Send for Free Steel Engraving and book. S.R.Bailey & CO. Amesbury, Mass.US.A —EE The River of Life | is rising —the longer you wait the harder it will be to cross. The longer you wait the harder to secure Life Insurance. The time to Insure is NOW The Prudential Address Dept. O. Write for particulars, THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA JOHN F. DRYDEN President HOME OFFICE: Newark, N. J. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JANES HENDERSON UNDER THE ACT OF 1801. comicbooks.com