Life, 1907-02-07 · page 52 of 52
Life — February 7, 1907 — page 52: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **steamship advertisement**, not political satire. The illustration depicts passengers—two women and a child—boarding or disembarking from a Southern Pacific steamship, with maritime infrastructure visible in the background. The ad promotes "A Hundred Golden Hours at Sea," a book describing luxury travel on new 10,000-ton steamships running between New York and New Orleans. The quoted passage romanticizes ocean voyages as leisurely adventures to exotic, "beckoned" coasts. This reflects early 20th-century leisure marketing: steamship travel was a luxury experience for affluent Americans. The illustration's sentimental tone and the book's "interesting and delightful" framing suggest travel as an escape and status symbol. The extensive list of ticket agents across major U.S. cities indicates Southern Pacific's broad commercial reach during the era before commercial air travel dominated long-distance passenger transport.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
FRANK PRESOREY €O “Some day the shore finds us again, and we land, the fair voyage over, on coasts that have not been sought, only beckoned, and that have come at the signal” This illustration and quotation are from a most interesting and delightful book “A Hundred Golden Hours at Sea” an absorbing Mory, handsomely illustrated, of the pleasures afforded by a trip ‘on one of the magnificent new 10,000-ton, sixteen-knot steamships of the Southern Pacific #:.. New York and New Orleans For sailing dates, folders end all information, inquire of any Railroad or Steamship ticket agent, or to the following Agencies of the Southern Pacific: NEW YORK, N. Y., | and 349 Broadway © CHICAGO, ILL., 120 Jackson Boulevard NEW ORLEANS, LA., Magazine and = ST. LOUIS, MO., 903 Olive St., Century | ATLANTA, GA., 124 Peachtree Steet CINCINNATI, OHIO, 53 E. Fourth Street Natchez Streets ing. * BALTIMORE, MD. Bakiaore aad isons DETROIT, MICH., 1] Fort Street PHILADELPHIA, PA.. 632 Cheftnut Street SYRACUSE, N. Y., 212 W. Washinstco Streets . HOUSTON, TEX., Maia and Franklia Streets, PITTSBURG, PA., 708.709 Park Bung 258 upg GERMANY, “Amcile- BOSTON, MASS., 170 Washington Suet. LOS ANGELES,CAL.,600 So. Spring Sueet_ | SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Ferry Building haus,” Ferdinand Strase * ‘Send 10 Cents in pottage to Advertising Department, Southem PaciSc, No. | Broadway, New York City, for copy of ““A Hundred Golden Hours at Sea.” jars, ee comicbooks.com