Life, 1919-12-18 · page 7 of 56
Life — December 18, 1919 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **product advertisement**, not a political cartoon. It promotes the Mimeograph machine by A.B. Dick Company, highlighting its use during the Peace Conference (likely the Paris Peace Conference following World War I). The ad emphasizes the machine's speed and reliability: copies could be produced within minutes of speeches being delivered, enabling rapid distribution of important documents during negotiations. The image shows what appears to be a conference room with officials conducting business. The advertisement targets government, business, and educational institutions by stressing the machine's efficiency—producing 5,000 copies per hour at minimal cost. The appeal is practical rather than satirical: the Mimeograph proved indispensable for handling large-volume document reproduction during major diplomatic events.
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Great work! Twenty minutes after some of the important Peace Conference speeches were delivered, mimeographed copies were ready for distribution and consid- eration. In Paris, in the heart of the whirl of world events, the Mimeograph with stout and swift depend- ability did yeoman service. Some of the work of the Peace Conference would have been quite impossible with- out it. Speed and accuracy were there indispensable. And the Mimeograph met the great test—just as it is doing in governmental, business and educational institutions throughout the civilized world. With amazing rapidity and fine exactness it re- produces typewritten sheets, maps, drawings, forms and the like—first copies ready in a few minutes—and thereafter five thousand an hour. Stencils will run thousands of copies without renewing. All done at Why not know more about it, now? Great work, that! Get booklet ‘‘W”’ from A. B. Dick Company, Chicago—and New York. — comicbooks.com