Life — January 5, 1905
$19.00
An original cover of Life, dated January 5, 1905. Restored from the Internet Archive scan. Public-domain in the United States.
Description
Life — January 5, 1905
Life was launched as a weekly humor and general-interest magazine in New York City on January 4, 1883, founded by John Ames Mitchell and Andrew Miller. It quickly built a roster of celebrated illustrators: Charles Dana Gibson sold his first drawing to the magazine in 1886 and became one of its defining artists, and Norman Rockwell painted his first Life cover on May 10, 1917, contributing twenty-eight covers between 1917 and 1924. Other contributors included Coles Phillips, F. X. Leyendecker, Palmer Cox, and a young Robert Ripley. After founder Mitchell’s death in 1918, Gibson himself purchased the title in 1920. The magazine remained a weekly through the Jazz Age, shifted to a monthly during the Great Depression, and published its last issue in November 1936, when Henry Luce bought the name to launch his picture magazine.
What you receive: six high-resolution JPGs at 300 dpi, ready for any home printer or framing shop — three sizes (8×10, 11×14, 16×20 inches) in two tones (Pure — neutral color restoration; Heirloom — warm aged tone). Plus a one-page reference PDF describing the source.
Source: Internet Archive (open access). This work is in the public domain in the United States.
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