Life, 1915-08-12 · page 39 of 40
Life — August 12, 1915 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an **advertising page** for Life Publishing Company promoting five **art prints** available for home decoration ("For the Bungalow"), priced at 25 cents each. The prints appear to be sentimental and genre scenes typical of early 20th-century popular art: - **"Not Guilty"** and **"His Grandmother's Funeral"** depict domestic melodrama - **"Ring Around the Moon"** is a romantic nighttime scene - **"Twelve O'Clock and All's Well"** and **"After the Battle"** suggest narrative illustration - **"Oh! Mother—Come Quick!"** is comedic domestic humor about a child eating currants These were mass-produced photogravure and color-printed reproductions—affordable art for middle-class homes. The advertisement targets readers interested in affordable home decoration, reflecting early 1900s consumer culture where magazines sold both editorial content and related merchandise directly to subscribers.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
- with | frocks gaws; irtistic This ats the othing Paris. on sale, edition esenta- | umber | ardens, 1 pages Royal 5, elc.; beauty Copr. Life Pub. Co. Ring Around the Moon Photegravure, sive Vx 12 in. FOR THE BUNGALOW Not Guilty Printed in colors on by isted, size Ba 1 tin 25 Cents Each LIFE 17 West 31st Street New York Copr. Life Pub. Co. His Grandmother's Funeral Printed in colors on bristol, size 12 1 in. “Oh! Mother—Come Quick! Baby’s Eating the Currants off the Sticky Paper!”* Photogravure, size 9 x 12. PETER 1. CAREY. ERINTER Copr. Life Pub. Co. “Twelve O’Clock and All’s Well Vhotogracure, size Vx 12 in. Corr. Life Pub. Co. After the Battle Printed in colors ou bristol, size 12 1 in, comicbooks.com