Life, 1906-05-17 · page 25 of 28
Life — May 17, 1906 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than political satire. The dominant feature is a Bausch & Lomb Tessar camera lens advertisement emphasizing superior optical quality for difficult photography. Below that, "Life's Prints" showcases **C.D. Gibson illustrations**—Gibson was Life's celebrated cartoonist known for the "Gibson Girl" ideal. These are advertisement samples for printable artwork available from Life Publishing Company, depicting genteel social situations: solitaire, romantic encounters, dancing, and card games. The titles ("Unlucky at Cards, Lucky at Love," "His Dance") suggest gentle domestic humor about courtship and leisure. The bottom advertisement is for **Old Crow Rye whiskey**. The small cartoon at top-left appears unrelated—a caricatured figure with the caption "Something has been running through my head all morning, but somehow just at this moment it escapes me," likely a standalone joke about forgetfulness rather than political commentary. The page reflects early 1900s Life magazine's focus on advertising, consumer goods, and sentimental social humor rather than political satire.
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. When Buying a Camera you must remember that photographs like those shown in this ad- vertisement are almost impossible with the lenses usually furnished and that the most interesting views you would like to photograph are often the most difficult to get. The /ens is the all important part of a camera. The new Tessar Lens, now furnished with all Kodaks, Premos, Century and Hawkeye Cameras, will make pic- tures such as those shown here as easily as any other kind. It will make any kind of a picture from a racing automobile to a portrait Tessar is only one of many fine photographic lenses made by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company and described in a beautifully illustrated booklet, ‘Aids to Artistic Aims," just issued, sent free on request. Ask your dealer to show you cameras with the new “SOMETHING HAS BEEN RUNNING THROUGH MY ‘ Tessar Lenses. AD ALL THE MORNING, BUT SOMEHOW JUST AT THIS MOMENT IT ESCAPES ux.” . : : Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N.Y. Naw York Boston WASHINGTON cutcaco SAN FRANCISCO PRINTS "3°" UNLUCKY AT CARDS, LUCKY AT LOVE Alter C.D. Gibson AN INTERRUPTED GAME OF SOLITAIRE > By Plate Proof, 20 by 35 tas After C. D. Gibson “ $1.00 Plate Proof, 20 by 15 in. B00 Corvascnt, 1909, BY rE PUB. CO. C.D. Gibson Plate Proof, 11 by 14 ia. 50 cents A complete rue with reduced prints of 137 subjects will be sent to any address on receipt of Ten Cents by ANOTHER MONOPOLY HIS DANCE LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Aiter C. D. Gibson After CD: Gihvon 17 West 31st Street Plate Proof, 20 by 15 in. % Plate Print, 20 by 1 ia $1.00 New York $1.00 CROW RYE sretor WHISK EY soresorrtees son vor comicbooks.com