Life — January 10, 1907 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Content Analysis This page consists primarily of **advertisements and a contest announcement**, not political cartoons. The left side features ads for Andrew Usher scotch whisky and "Indoors and Out" homebuilders magazine. The right side announces a major illustration contest sponsored by *Life* magazine offering $3,500 total in prizes ($250 per quotation illustrated). The contest invites artists to submit illustrations of twelve famous quotations from historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Lord Bacon, and Tennyson. Winners will be selected by *Life*'s editors, with submissions due by July 1, 1907. This reflects the magazine's dual function: satirical journalism combined with commercial publishing ventures and patronage of visual arts—common for early-twentieth-century periodicals.