Life, 1903-11-19 · page 20 of 22
Life — November 19, 1903 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It consists of commercial advertisements for travel, photography, clothing, and accessories typical of an early 1900s American magazine. The ads include: - **Oceanic Steamship Company**: Pacific cruises to Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, and Australia - **Kodak**: Holiday gift cameras - **North-Western Line**: $62.50 California train tickets from Chicago - **Gibson Pyrography**: Wood-burning art kits featuring Charles Dana Gibson's designs - **Krementz Collar Buttons**: Mass-produced fashion accessories advertised as durable gifts - **Wabash Line**: Railroad routes emphasizing access to the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis The only imagery with potential social commentary is the **Gibson Pyrography section**, which reproduces Gibson's famous "Gibson Girl" illustrated designs—reflecting early 1900s ideals of fashionable femininity—for hobbyist wood-burning reproduction. Otherwise, this reflects consumer culture and leisure travel interests of wealthy early-20th-century Americans.
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OcEANIC Steamship Company (Amorican and Australian Line) To HAWAII, SAMOA, NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, AND TAHITI New Tour to New Zealand via Hawaii a Australia, Fiji; $500.00 from prin- cipal points in S Sy United States. Round the World Cruises and Pacific Tours Steamers every 10 days from San Francisco. Send for Mustrated Folder. BP, BURNETT, 6. Ba. A Holiday Hint KODAK Booklet at the deaters or by mail. EASTMAN KODAK CO., Rochester, N. Y. y rates from all ne s via the Chicago, Union Pacificand North-Western Line with magnificent equipment through to the Coast, including the famous electric-lighted, daily Overland Limite less than three days en Foute, over the only double-track railway between Chicago and the Missouri River, she Beat of Eeerytbleg: selttickets la thisline, inh t Gibson Pyrography By contraot with Life, we hav. the exc jusive right to reproduce Gi 0 living pen-and-ink artist, and his draw- ings aro admirably adapted to Pyro- graphic reproduction, Outfit No. 95 yaluo $2.50, is t porarily offered “for is 19 a high-grade instrament, sie rials, and includes fine Platinum Point, Cork Handle, Rabber Tuning, Double- Action Bulb, Metal Union Cork, Bottle, Alcohol Lamp, Two Pieces Stamped Practice Wood ‘and fall instructions, all contained in neat Leatherette Box. ‘For sale by your dealer, or reut by us for examination. Write for our big 6+ Re Snes with colored fnserts, 0. J 82, FREE. Iiloetrates hundreds Of Ulowon end oxher arse ¢ designs on wood, ready for burning, together with all kinds of Pyrography outdis at lowest jiricee, This trademark on oa Saphtc ‘Goode THAYER & CHANDLER 162-164 W.tackson Bled. CHICAGO Largest Makers of Beat Maters of, Prrvegrepay Harderfold Hygienic Underwear ISTER-AIR-SPACE SYSTEM ‘ur variable climate to invalids Athletes Professional Men Merchants Accountants Andall occupations in life, Indoor or oat. Over eleven hundred physicians Rave united in testifying to the sanitary excellence ofthe Hanorkroupsyevem of undereiothing, MsRorRvOLD yaBnte co. 16S Kiver Street, Trey, Ne ¥ Send for Musteated Catalogue (couiaR BUTTONS FOR CHRISTMAS. MILLIONS OF _KREMENTZ Collar Buttons | SOLD EVERY YEAR. Krementz Quality Has Made This Possible SET (4) MAKES BEAUTIFUL GIFT. Every Krementz Collar Button Insured. You geta new one free of cort if brok damaged from any canse. Ask for the Krementz. Write for book! Story of a Collar Button,” KREMENTZ & CO., 60 Chestnut St., Newark, N. J. WEPERD ‘The Taletide Seasoo adds to the ever-increasing fow of travel over THE WABASH LINE acrween ST. LOUIS, AND CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY, OMAHA, DES MOINES, TOLEDO, DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, MINNEAPOLIS ANO ST. PAUL. CHICAGO AND PEORIA, GALVESTON, LOS ANGELES, TOLEDO, DETROIT, The W Vabash Line has fo St Louis AU Wahash thro Forest Parte and stop at World's Fair Station in ord NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON ANO MONTREAL. KANSAS CITY AND DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS AND BUFFALO. ST. PAUL AND LOS ANGELES. hhasits own ralis direct to the Worla’s Fulr Grounds b tralas past throagh toe beautiful er to give pamencers an opportunity to view from the trains the World's Pair Bulldiog Cc. S. CRANE, GENERAL PASSENGER AND TICKET AGENT, ST. LOUIS, MO. comicbooks.com