Life, 1906-11-08 · page 25 of 30
Life — November 8, 1906 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertisement** for Life magazine's subscription offer, not a political cartoon. The page promotes a promotional print titled "An Old Love Song"—a sepia photogravure depicting a romantic scene of figures by a window at night. The image itself appears to be sentimental rather than satirical. The advertisement's key offer: new subscribers paying $5.00 annually (with payment received by February 1, 1907) would receive a large hand-printed art print (19x24 inches) free, delivered with postage prepaid. Alternatively, subscribers could select other prints from Life's catalog worth $2.50. This reflects early-1900s magazine marketing strategy—using attractive art prints as subscription incentives. The phrase "You Cannot Buy This Picture" creates urgency by emphasizing the offer's exclusivity to new subscribers only.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Cart Wk Li eine Cmreny The size of the charming picture (of which this isa reproduction in miniature) is 104x15 inches. The large print is a sepia photogravure, plate marked. It is hand-printed on Exora steel-plate paper, 19x24, ready for framing. The Picture Will Not Be Sold But the large print will be delivered, carriage prepatd, to every new sub- scriber to LIFE at $5.00 a year, if we receive the remittance before February I, 1907. In place of “An Old Love Song,” new subscribers may, if they 10 prefer, seleet prints from our catalogue to the value of $2.50. The handsome little catalogue of LIFES PRINTS, with miniature reproductions of 127 drawings, will be sent to any address on application. LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 WEST 31a STREET, NEW YORK CITY comicbooks.com