Life — September 13, 1923 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily a **Mimeograph machine advertisement** from the A.B. Dick Company of Chicago, not a political cartoon. The elliptical image at top depicts **Pegasus (winged horse) with a figure**, symbolizing speed—the ad's central metaphor. The headline claims the Mimeograph has "clipped the wings of speeding time" by enabling rapid document duplication. The advertisement targets business and educational markets, emphasizing how the machine increases efficiency by quickly copying "letters, bulletins, forms, diagrams, drawings, etc." The copy stresses cost savings and that the device "has few equals in all the world." A tear-away coupon invites readers to request a product demonstration booklet. This represents early 20th-century mechanical office technology marketed through aspirational imagery connecting speed and progress to business success.