Title:  Life

Type:  Magazine

Date:  January 2, 1950

Size:  14 & 1/8 inches x 10 inches

Pages:  100+ covers

Quantity: 1

This is a very interesting and informative vintage issue of Life Magazine dated January 2, 1950 and copyrighted 1949.  This Special Issue details the highlights of American life and times, c. 1900 - 1950.

The cover states that the issue includes 28 color pages and articles such as:

*  The Carefree 1900's

*  50 years of women

*  Advance of Science

*  Headliners of the Twenties
*  A Famous Murder

The Contents page notes additional features as follows:

*  Baby Shaw ~ First born of the 20th Century

*  Early Color Photographs ~ Alfred Stieglitz,
    Arnold Genthe, Edward Steichen

*  The Golden Years Before The War

*  Valentino The Great Lover (w/pictures)

*  Early Advertising (w/examples)

*  A Famous Camping Trip ~ Henry Ford,
    Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, John
    Burroughs

*  Musical Comedies Of 1931 ~ Ethel Merman,
    Marilyn Miller, Fred Astair

*  The Great Armory Show Of 1913 ~ Henri
    Matisse, Marcel Ducamp, Wasisily Kandinsky,
    Francis Picabia, Paul Cezanne, Constantin
    Brancusi, Modern, Cubist, Futerist

*  Hall - Mills Murder Case ~ Edward Hall &
    Eleanor Mills

*  Nels Elufson's Saga ~ Danish Immigrant

*  The Audacious Americans ~ Theodore
    Roosevelt, Mark Twain, William Jennings
    Bryan, Woodrow Wilson

*  The Killer With The Golden Fists - Jack
    Dempsey

*  Life Visits The Vanderbilt Mansions ~
    Biltmore, Sagamore, Hyde Park

*  Fake News Pictures ~ Composites,
    composographs
*  The Care & Handling Of A Heritage

The article; Fifty Years of American Women includes numerous period fashion drawings from Vogue, as well as highlights and information regarding a number of noteworthy women, such as; Anna Held, Carry Nation, Margaret Sanger, Mary Pickford, Theda Bara, Gloria Swanson. Rita Hayworth and many more.

The Acceleration of Science article states that:  50 years brought more progress than was  made in previous 5000.  It features several interesting timelines; one showing the progress from horse draw carriage to a 1949 aircraft and another showing the span of human life and how technology has increased length significantly.   Yet another shows destructive power increasing from a black powder shell in 1900 to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Headliners of the 1920's includes many high profile stories of the period, including articles on Charles Lindbergh, John Held, Jr., Red Grange, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Gilda Gray, Rudy Valee, Herbert Hoover and John Scopes, to name a few.

To say this magazine is packed full of very informative, significant articles is almost an understatement!

Additionally it includes quite a number of interesting color illustrations and advertisements, as well as plentiful similar black and white, from many of the popular and collectable companies of the day.

It is complete, with no missing pages, however several pages at magazine center have come loose from the staples.  It is in fair overall condition.  Covers have some wear/tear/loss at spine, with some small numbers written on front and some slight general soiling and mars.     Interior pages show some light age related darkening at edges, with some having a small tear/wear right at midline edge, but they are free of writing, etc..  Staples remain intact and secure.  Spine is quite tight.  While not in flawless condition it is complete.

Certainly an historic time capsule held within the pages of this mid - century special issue Life magazine.  Related:  ephemera

Noteworthy Life Magazine ~ Special Mid-Century Issue ~ American Life & Times 1900 - 1950

$ 14.95