Life, 1907-12-05 · page 62 of 68
Life — December 5, 1907 — page 62: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertisement page**, not political satire. Life Publishing Company promotes its line of decorative art prints suitable as gifts. The page features various illustrated works by popular artists of the era (Coles Phillips, Gordon Craig, Henry Hutt, etc.), each with romantic or sentimental titles: "Her Choice," "For a Good Boy," "The Cup That Clears," "Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast," and "You're the Only Girl I Ever Loved." The opening Ruskin quote frames pictures as essential to domestic life. One cartoon shows a man asking someone to move so they can install a railroad—a satirical jab at industrial progress disrupting everyday life. The prints range from $0.30 to $2.00, marketed as affordable home décor for middle-class Americans. This reflects the era's commercialization of sentimental art and the magazine's dual role as both satirist and merchant.
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“A room without pictures is like a room without windows.”—RUSKIN What Better Gift Than One of Copytght LOU by Lt Fab Ce “Smile if ye will, But some heart strings Are closest linked With simplest things.” Alter C, Coles Philtips India Print in Brown, 22 by 18 in $2.00 CCoprrtgnt 1001 by Life Ped. On Copyright 10% by Life FN Co “EXCUSE ME, BUT WOULD YOU MIND MOVING A LITTLE TO WE'VE COT TO PUT A RAILROAD THROUGH HERE.” Ajter Gordon Grai Hand-colored India Print $2.00 copgrigna 92 THE CHOIR INVISIBLE Alter C. Clyde Squires Photogravure in Brown, 20 by 15 in. $1.00 “FOR A GOOD BO Alter A. D. Blashjeld Photogravure in Green, 11 by 14 in. 30 cents Copqright 100T by Lite Pua Om. THE WRECKER Alter Henry Hutt Facsimile in Color, 13 by 15 in. $1.00 Accopy of our illustrated catalogue for 1908 will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents Life's Prints ¢ opytledt 19:7 by Life DCO —THE CUP THAT CLEARS TO-DAY OF PAST REGRETS AND FUTURE PEARS. Alte: C. Coles Phillips —Omar Hand Mountea 'odia Print, 22 by 18 in $2.00 Copyrighs 1808 by Lite Pub. Co NAL IN THE HUMAN BRE. After Malcolm Stewart Hand Mounted India Print, 22 by 18 in. Copyright 10 by Life Ped Co. “YOU'RE THE ONLY GIRL I EVER LOVED” After C. Clyde Squires Hand Mounted India Print in Black, 22 by 18 in. $2.00 LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York comicbooks.com