Life, 1906-10-18 · page 21 of 28
Life — October 18, 1906 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial satire. The upper half promotes Gorham silverware with marketing copy emphasizing quality and low prices. The lower half advertises "Life's Prints"—photogravure reproductions available for purchase from Life Publishing Company. These are narrative genre scenes (likely illustrations or photographs) by artists including Bayard Jones, F.W. Read, and Nesbitt Benson. The titles—"Kidnapped," "Thrown Over," "A Candidate," "The Long Engagement," and "Gee Whiz! I Wish He'd Go Home"—suggest sentimental or melodramatic domestic scenarios popular in early 1900s commercial art. There is **no political satire** on this page. It's a straightforward sales venue for silverware and reproducible artwork, typical of Life magazine's business model at the time.
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wa eal al Superior Quality and Advantageous Prices in Gorham Silverware With every known Resource for Economy in the Making at their command, and with a market broad enough to enable them to sell their products in an Unexampled Quantity, The Gorham Company are able to offer Silverware of the Highest Quality at Prices that have not heretofore been possible in this or any other market of the World. The GORHAM Company Silversmiths and Goldsmiths, Fifth Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street Corrmont, 1908, av Lue Pus Co KIDNAPPED Alter Bayard Jones ( , ° THROWN OVER Photogravure in Green, 20 by 15 in. , ; Alter Bayard Jones A Photogravure, 20 by 15 in. A CANDIDATE Ajter F.W. Read A Photogravure, 15 by 20 in so exnts A complete catalogue with reduced prints of 137 subjects will be sent to any address upon application. THE LONG ENGAGEMENT “GEE WHIZ! I WISH HE'D GO HOME” After Bayard Jones After Nesbitt Benson A Photogravure, 9 by 15 i LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Fe oan Tae ao $1.00 17 West Thinty-firet Street New York City go cents comicbooks.com