Life, 1906-12-06 · page 12 of 64
Life — December 6, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily **an advertisement page**, not a political cartoon. Life Publishing Company is promoting a subscription offer to new readers. The central image, titled "An Old Love Song," depicts a romantic street scene with figures beneath a window—a sentimental, sentimental illustration typical of early 1900s popular art. The key message is the **promotional offer**: new subscribers paying $5.00 annually would receive a large framed print of this picture (10½ x 15 inches), hand-printed on steel-plate paper, with carriage paid—**if payment was received before February 1, 1907**. The headline "You Can Not Buy This Picture" is clickbait: the print was exclusively offered as a subscription bonus, not sold separately. This was a common marketing tactic to incentivize magazine subscriptions in the early 20th century.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
‘Copyright, 1908, Life Pubtoning Oompaay te Old Love Sing The size of the charming picture (of which this isa reproduction in miniature) is 104x135 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 prepaid, 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 20 prefer, scle@ prints from our catalogue to the value of $2.50. The handsome little catalogue of LIFE'S PRINTS, with miniature teprodudions of 127 drawings, will be sent to any address on application. LIFE PUBLISHING CO,, 17 WEST 318 STREET, NEW YORK CITY