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Life Magazine January 4, 1937 : Cover - President Roosevelt. The Opera. California horse racing - Bay Meadows and Santa Anita. Roosevelt rule (1933-37). Washington murals. How to ride a horse - expert Robert P . Stout. Aristede Maillol. Ghost? - Raynham Hall. House of Orange-Nassau, Dutch rulers. Four naked men in a shower, University of Washington football team, Jim Cain, Byron Haines, Ed Nowogroski, and Elmer Legg. Santa Anita racetrack opens in California. Photos from the Opera, opera goers. Photo of work in progress at Fort Peck dam. Murals by Reginald Marsh and George Biddle, in Washington. The Hunt moves off (fox hunting). The land of the Plainsman. Photos of Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba. Photo of baseball player Dizzy Dean and his truck. Series of publicity photos taken for Del Monte, which were suppressed (not used) because they weren't right for publicizing the resort. Full page color Camels ad with Fred McDaniel looking like a stereotypical cowboy.
Good (This issue was incorrectly bound with a double-page left out, this page was later inserted loosely) - $25
Fair (All G, but has light cover wear) - $18

Life Magazine January 11, 1937 : Cover - Japanese soldiers doing their exercises. Full page LIFE magazine ad with railroad locomotive at night. The "first" candid photographs taken by Paul Nadar of Paris in 1886. Governors - new and old. Margaret Sanger wins the court victory that birth control contraceptives can be sent by mail, long fight for related women's rights . Bootleg coal mining near Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Painter Winslow Homer. Dinosaurs Enshrined (collection, storage and display of dinosaur fossils in museums, including Dinosaur National Monument). Baths of Foam, milk, mud,and wax for beauty. . Theatre in 1936 and 1937. Japanese Army. Sonja Henie in her movie "One in a million." Includes photos of Sonja Henie bicycling - looks like today's town cruiser bikes. . Amazing series of photos of San Francisco people interacting (or not) with bum laying on sidewalk. Photos from wreck of United Airliner which crashed December 27, 1936 in the Santa Susana Mountains of California. Five airline crashes in two weeks at end of 1936. Ice hockey fights. "Tobacco Road" on Broadway. Japanese soldiers training. Neat photo of five new locomotives in a row, Canadian National Railways.
Excellent - $65
Very Good - $52
Good - $42

Life Magazine January 18, 1937 : Cover photo of Henry and Edsel Ford at Dearborn. Photocrime - who killed the Diamond King? New labor tactic - the sit-down strike. Sit-down strikes in Detroit, Fisher Body Corporation in Flint, including photos of Joe Devitt, Walter Hamlin, Mary Tignis, Bud Simons. Mr. Robert Cuse of Jersey City helps send Munitions ship to Spain, U.S. Neutrality Act loop hole. Funny photo of rest break in the filming of a dance scene in the movie "Champagne Waltz." Tennis at Madison Square Garden, John Perry and Ellsworth Vines. New US team for Table tennis. Gorgeous full page color portraits of Viscountess Bridport, and Countess of Shrewsbury. Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with oil well fire fighter, Pat Patton. Ten youngest duchesses. Radiometeorograph reports on weather in the Stratosphere. A party with the Stotesburys, Wanamakers and Dorances for Mrs. Widener's daughter Joan Peabody, in Philadelphia. Great skiing photo ad on back cover for Lucky Strike cigarettes, it shows a man and woman on skis - gear and clothing nicely shown..
Excellent - $78
Very Good - $62
Good - $52

Life Magazine January 25, 1937 : Cover photo of England's royal lion in stone. Full page Studebaker ad with log cabin "Ranger Headquarters." Photos of bathing beauties in Palm Beach in 1921, very interesting swimming suits. Communism in China - feature article with lots of photos. Governor Murphy and the National guard bring a truce to the automobile strike in Lansing and Flint - apparently not, though ... see other strike-related pieces later this year. $200 million in gold arrives at Fort Knox. Snow storm strands miners in Inyo county, California, food is air-lifted in. U.S. Army in the Air - 1,364 planes of four types (all full color illustrations, more) : A-17 attack plane built by Northrop Aviation, Boeing Flying Fortress, P-35 Seversky Pursuit, and O-47 North American Observation planes. England's number one air school is Cranwell College in Lincolnshire, includes photo of parachute training. Chicago's Merchandise Mart. California cold wave. Wedding of Juliana and Bernhard Lippe-Biesterfeld, German prince. New mummies for Metropolitan museum, Ra-mose and Hat-nufer. Greyhound racing in Florida. Rough wrestling kills 10 in 1936, photos include Robert Bruns, Dean Detton, Dave Levin.
Excellent - $65
Very Good - $52
Good - $42

Life Magazine February 1, 1937 : Cover - Indoor tennis at vassar. Vassar. Neat photo of pigs, including a huge German pig built low for rooting. Inauguration of FDR, Franklin Roosevelt. Levee break on St. Francis River north of Fisk, Missouri, other flood photos (see LIFE February 8, 1937 for more). Covered wagon for camping, Arthur George Sherman, these are a small camper trailer. Portfolio of China soldiers. Full page photo of the "Joseph Conrad" three masted siling ship. Living conditions on the Grace Line "Santa Lucia." Vassar College campus - lots of great photos of campus life, including champion tennis player Helen Grawn. The art of Emil Ganso, Aaron Bohrod, William Gropper, John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Daredevil driver Lucky Teter, great bunch of photos. Movie - Fire over England. Chinese Communists. Paul Bunyan Babe at a winter carnival at Bemidji, Minnesota. Howard Hughes cuts two hours off his transcontinental flight record, Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn. Nice two page Cunard White Star ship line ad with Senior First Officer J.G. Boxhall and Junior Third Officer E.A. Divers. Color ski ad with Sig Buchmayr for Camel cigarettes - could be Tuckerman's ravine. A party at the Waldorf-Astoria with Elsa Maxwell, people dressed as farmers, included real pigs and cow.
Excellent - $50
Very Good - $38

Life Magazine February 8, 1937 : Cover - Hereford cow with calf in snowy winter scene. Ohio-Mississippi flood - astounding photos, including Coney Island Cincinnati flooded - water probably at least 12 feet deep, near Blytheville in Arkansas, St. Francis River, Lawrenceburg in Indiana, Shawneetown in Illinois, Wheeling Island in West Virginia, Portsmouth in Ohio (flooded railroad yard), much, much more. Movie - Maid of Salem, about witchcraft. Italian movie - Scipio Africanus. Lotus the hippopotamus, great pictures from front and back, buy two copies and frame them for a great conversation piece. Grant Wood's art. Rome welcomes Nazi leader Goring. Charles J. Belden Z Bar T ranch in Pitchfork, Wyoming. Half page Briggs pipe tobacco ad with humorous skiing cartoon. The old age pension plan of Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, includes Clurtis Fleming and his wife of Chelan, Washington. More on flood - faces, railroads. Feature on corsets with lots of photos. Bladder boats, sheep and ox skins blown up. Bungling burglar - poor handwriting sends package to wrong person (Bugher jewels stolen by butler John Morcischeck.) Gorgeous Lucky Strike ad on back cover in color - piano and couple with evening clothes.
Excellent - $42
Very Good - $30
Fair (All G, but has some mild color transfer and faint rippling on corner) - $9

Life Magazine February 15, 1937 : Cover - General Senjuro Hayashi. Floods aftermath. President wants to increase the size of the Supreme court. Andrew Mellon's gift - collection of paintings. 20th Century-Fox ‘s Darryl Zanuck. Scarab costume ball in Detroit, with photos of Mary Nicklas, Clem Mason, Frohman Anderson, William A. Frank, Clemence Le Febvre, Nancy Piaskowski and many others. General Motors sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. Squash rackets Champion Germain Glidden. Jean Harlow in Washington. How to Undress - the famous piece, for women, right way and wrong way (See also March 15, 1937). Oxford Groupers, a day at the Malvern House Party. A whole photo sequence of Rosinbelly cutting a 200 foot fir tree, including a single man climbing, limbing and topping it. Log rolling. Samples of photo blends for nature photography, William Lovell Finley. Rather amazing photo of refugees standing in line outside relief agency in front of mural stating "World's highest standard of living, there's no way like the American Way" - made more poignant by the fact that the people in the mural are happy white folk and the people in line are sad black people. Floods and aftermath in Ohio Valley, Louisville, Kentucky with photos of Jim Lawhorn, Wilbur Cogshall, Tom Wallace, prison chain gang, and others. Charlie Johns and his 9 year-old child bride Eunice Winstead, Treadway, Tennessee. Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with Dorothy Kilgallen, back from around the world trip in 24 days. Humorous follow-up to Photocrime piece in January 18, 1937 LIFE issue.
Good - $22

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Life Magazine February 22, 1937 : Cover - triton for St. Louis. Dartmouth's 27th annual winter carnival. Great Negro singer Marian Anderson from Philadelphia. British troops marching up the Khyber pass, India's northwest frontier (now Pakistan). Table tennis tournament with Ruth Aarons and Viktor Gyono Barna, winners. Sculpture by Carl Milles. Revolution in Barcelona. Girls in mid-air - dancers, Ilse Meudtner, Betty Bryght and others. $1,500 Arrow monoplane, purchased by Perry Newkirk at New York's aviation show. One German (Emanuel Lasker) beats 29 Russians at Chess. Rumanian Gypsies - photos. Aga Khan and Ismaili Moslems - photo. Photos showing how a ski theme commercial is produced and photographed - Babs at "St. Moritz" for ads for ski clothes, cold cream or winter travel., photographer Paul Hesse. Mexico harbors unwanted Leon Trotsky, Russian exile. Photo of sagging railroad tracks after flood in Cincinnati. Revolution in Barcelona, Spain as portrayed by artist Jose Luis Rey, and more on Barcelona. Hitler's friends, German Reichstag, more on Germany. Dartmouth's Winter Carnival, including several ski racing photos, one with Dick Durrance.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine March 1, 1937 : Cover - lab rats. Harry Whittier Frees - famous photographer of dressed up animals. War on cancer - includes information on carcinogens and cancer from coal tar. Contour Strip plowing. Silver foxes raised at Fromm farm in Hamburg, Wisconsin. Court tennis. Thomas Benton paints murals of Missouri, apparently the people of Missouri do not care for his murals. Beautician Helena Rubinstein. Dr. Wilhelm Croy of Berlin makes realistic skiers out of match sticks. Mrs. Tone, who is Joan Crawford in the movie - Last of Mrs. Cheyney - plus more on Joan. Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. Full page Plymouth car ad with Oscar Hurless. Interesting photo of race horse Pompoon with jockey, favorite to win the Kentucky Derby. Golden Gate bridge under construction, San Francisco. Photos of babies born in Belgrave square, London. Views of Court-Tennis court at Manhattan's Racquet and Tennis Club, including Ogden Phipps. Photo of VERY unusual "Radiowave" dress in Austria. Germany releases photos of new submarines. Log floating in Finland (timber harvesting) in the Kemi river, more. Letter and pictures to the editor showing interesting parachute jump by Jerry Franks, who needed to deploy both main chute and auxiallary chute in the same jump.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine March 8, 1937 : Cover - Skier on ski lift at Sun Valley (One of the nicest LIFE covers ever!). Sandhog mystery. Tristan and Isolde. EXCELLENT feature article on skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho - a must for ski history enthusiasts. Ski article is 8 pages long, includes photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt of ski instructor Hauser, Marion Crozer, Faith Donaldson, Count Schaffgotsch, Claude Binyon, Mr. And Mrs. Studebaker, Frank Rediker, Sarah Appleton of Kalamazoo, Host Harriman and many others. Chinese brides. Charles Evans Hughes. Caves - Charles E. Mohr, photographer of caves - photos include bats and other cave creatures, Nickajack cave, Marvel Cave Missouri. Hop Gardener. National Association of Merchant Tailors of America - Jubilee convention.

Very Good - $75
Good - $60
Good (Nice framable cover, content EXC, small address label cut off back cover) - $55
Fair (Generally VG, a NICE copy, cover has faint mark at left, bumped corner) - $38
Fair (Content all EXC, cover lightly foxed) - $28

Life Magazine March 15, 1937 : Cover - throne in Westminster Abbey. Steel raises wages. Coronets, Coronations, Crown jewels (in color). If London is bombed - method for fighting fires. Candid photo free-for-all at the College Inn nightclub at the Hotel Herman in Chicago. How a man undresses, the right way and the wrong way (yup - the famous photo piece) - See also February 15, 1937. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's album. Great photos of Andy Lopata at the Jones and Laughlin steel plant at Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, common steel worker. John Llewellyn Lewis, steel man and the CIO. Boxer Jim McMillen tossed boxer Everett Marshall and referee Bull Weideman out of the ring, injuring both. Photo of 42 railroad cars of coal in a wreck. John M. David of Hiawatha, Kansas, builds his very fancy tomb ahead of time. Party at Rosemary Hall girls boarding school in Connecticut. Life goes to a Waikiki wedding - movie. Egypt sends a Mahmal to Mecca after ten year absence, includes photos of Mecca. Neat (small) photo of Virginia and Rainy Lake Company railroad locomotive entirely covered with ice in northern Minnesota. Horrible photo of person with knife stuck in skull, he lived and was apparently fine, Frank Hill, Georgia. Nice full page color Chris Craft boat ad.
Excellent - $42
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine March 22, 1937 : Cover - Parachute test with dummy. Full page Studebaker ad with Airplane designer Donald Douglas. Richard Simon (of publishers Simon and Schuster) photographs his family and friends. Nice full page LaSalle car ad with skiing theme. Austria and Habsburgs. Shooting of Buron Fitts with a great quote "Although his injury was said to have immobilized his left arm, he was still able to hold a cigarette in that hand." Passenger liner "President Coolidge" hits the oil tanker "Frank H. Buck." Nitrate boat burns in Boston - photos. Liner President Coolidge rams an oil tanker - photos. Strikes - photos. Fiorello Henry LaGuardia - mayor of New York City. Parachutes, Irving Air Chute company.. Dr. George Washington Carver is honored. A coed's day, Heloise Martin at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The Judas goat. Chain gang in Bibb county, Georgia. Neat two page ad for LIFE magazine featuring ski cover of March 8, 1937. Pythons. English coaching company rehearses for coronation. Strikers have a sit-down picnic at the Woolworth store in Detroit. Very handsome Chesterfield color ad on back cover with military men, art by Leslie Thrashers.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine March 29, 1937 : Cover - Easter Choristers (3 boys singing in a choir). Full page color Phillips condensed soups ad with George Rector. Full page Elgin watch ad with Loro Roberts. Sample photographs taken before 1965. Full page Fisk tire ad with falling circus trapeze artist. Air Hostesses (flight attendants) including photos of Helena Mehl of TWA, Alww Isaacs, Ruth Osborn, Ann Clegg, Nina E. Bell, Jeanne Baird, Carolyn Olson, Verda Bardley and others, including weddings. Palm Springs. Palm Beach. Yale Swimmers. Harvard Swimmer - Charles G . Hutter. New London School in New London, Texas blows up - about 400 killed, rich oil community, gas explosion, photos of survivors include Paul Elliott, Jimmy Horenshell. Photo of German-American league members at Camp Siegfried doing Nazi salute. Smith college weekend Supper Dance (1,000+ boys invited) including Lillienne Cox, Kathryn Smith, Nancy Lowry, Laura W. L. Scales and others. Painter Paul Cadmus. Two different Pauline Taylor(s) who look like identical twins. Terrorists and their targets. Hotel Strike in Detroit. Party of 40,000 Californian's with Iowa roots. Plan for siege balloons over London. War in Manchukuo. Full page Texaco ad with baseball theme. Photo of tiger attacking World's only woman tiger trainer, Mabel Stark. Photos of J. Winton Lemen climbing a pole.
Good - $20

Life Magazine April 5, 1937 : Cover - Terrier barking up a tree. Photos of Jewish wedding, Florence Kaplan and William Kobrinsky. Sit-down Chrysler strikers proclaim spirit of 1937, photos of labor meeting in Cadillac square in Detroit.. Photos of sinking ship Bjerkli. Amish plead for their one-room schools, East Lampeter, Pennsylvania. St. Louis Cardinals in Training, baseball, includes photos of Sam Breadon, Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, Frank Frisch, Mike Ryba, Lon Warneke, and others - the Gashouse Gang. Striking full page color International Trucks ad with blue truck. Silent barriers - movie. French ambassador in Philadelphia. Colt sense. Baseball - large photo essay. Serial Queen - Pearl White. Coronation preparations. British fleet prepares for war, air craft carrier and air planes. Neat photo of H.M.S. Glorious. King Richard II on Broadway. San Francisco bridge jumper Ray Woods. New York police trap a gang of fur robbers. 20 month old William, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Astor III. Cowby Pinky Gist of Maricopa county, Arizona has lunch with spotted mule Freckles. Gruesome photo of South African snake that ate a steinbok, whose horns poked through the python and killed it.
Very Good - $36
Good - $26

Life Magazine April 12, 1937 : Cover - Centenarian from England, not named. Full page Listerine tooth paste ad with Ida Vollmar, Beatrice Imhoff, and Dorothy Temple. Freelance photographer Arthur Fellig and his photos (including Brooklyn trunk murder, fallen fish market, and gruesome auto crash), he is called "Ouija." prehistoric man - large feature article with photos. Chancellor bans Vanderbilt's honor society. Supreme court reverses itself on minimum wages. The case of the murdered model, Veronica Gedeon, Ronnie Gedeon. Elephant boy - movie with actor Sabu. Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with Glenn Hardin, track star. Unusual full page color Four Roses whiskey ad with calf and farmer. Manuel Quezon of the Philippines. Painter Cezanne. Anthony Gerald Samuel takes a fall with his steeplechase horse. Cute full page color Beech-nut gum ad with policeman, art by Norman Rockwell. Posture by Mensendieck. Haile Selassie gets his beloved dog Lulu back. 3.2 Beer for Kansas. Grain booms on the stock market. Photographer Edward Weston wins Guggenheim fellowship. Australian plane crash survivors J. R. Binstead and J. S. Proud. Dance at Manhattan's Roseland Hall with hired girls who are paid to dance with anyone who purchases a ticket. Photos of blood donor Dorothy MacRae in Jackson, Michigan. Full page color Lucky Strike cigarettes ad with Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine April 19, 1937 : Cover - the ship, Queen Mary. Full page LaSalle car ad with interesting and excellent art by Irwin Smith, white lines on black. Similar white on black art by Lay in half page Heisey glassware ad. Photos of Kovoor T. Behanan doing yoga, contortions. Admiral of the fleet Arthur Japy Hepburn and sailors, GOBs, shore leave at Long Beach. Sculptors' speed test, winner Clara Bratt, model Winifred Gould. Lead belly, the singer Huddie Ledbetter, negro in trouble. Elephant wedding - Major Craster marries Miss Macallum, they rode to church on an elephant, he was in charge of a detention camp for terrorists. Duke of Windsor's pension. Marked woman - movie. Normandie's new propeller allows her to break the speed record set by the Queen Mary. Whirlpools. Chinese airports. Russian polar bear hunt. Wedding of Dicky Dell Doheny - photos. Strikers in Hershey Pennsylvania. Queen Mary, the woman, lots of neat vintage photos and royal stories. GORGEOUS Chevrolet ad in color with yellow car and woman in gown. Pat Marquis - boy with x-ray eyes, he plays ping pong and pool while blindfolded. Mary Dunn of Bonne Terre, Missouri, very bright child, IQ 185. A new airport in China, built by hand, Chengchow in northern Honan Province. Collecting scrap metal for new war munitions, humorously enough, the US was sending much of it to Japan in 1937. Rather horrible story and photos about killing a polar bear. Scott Anderson of Boswell, Indiana and his string collection. The first Indian (Native American) stewardess, Northwest Air, Beth Pease. Basil and Ouida Rathbone - 11th wedding anniversary party (bride and groom costume party). Cute full page color Chesterfield cigarettes ad with woman on red scooter motorbike, male hiker.
Very Good - $65

Life Magazine April 26, 1937 : Cover - white leghorn Rooster. Wagner Act and Henry Ford, Ford Motor company. This very unusual cover format has a small LIFE printed in the lower red bar instead of the large LIFE in the red rectangle at top. Coast Guard cutter "Escanaba" on Lake Michigan, ice breaking. Horrible photo of negro "Bootjack" McDaniel tortured with a blowtorch and lynched in Duck Hill, Mississippi. Fireball Dodging in South Carolina. Texas Oil Fire near Silsbee - Houston Oil Company and Republic Production Company, great photos, lots of waste. Underwater movie - Underwater Romance. Hawaii Makes the US an empire, includes photos of airplanes, artillery and such ready to defend Hawaii, Honolulu Sugar Plantation company and more. Bethlehem steel - attack on chairman Charles M. Schwab. International flower show in Grand Central Palace, in color. Painter Franz Sedlacek. Charlie Chaplin and Igor Stravinsky roll a hoop. Neville Chamberlain. Stanley and Lucy Baldwin. Fake "Zulus prepare for coronation" photos.. Chicken farming, Leeds Mitchell farm northwest of Chicago. Funny photo of horse biting elephant. Full page Agfa film ad with canoeist Father Hubbard, the Glacier priest. Full page Elgin watch ad with Veronese Beatty of Chicago. Full page Camel cigarettes ad with Lou Gehrig in cartoon format.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine May 3, 1937 : Cover - Harlow in Hollywood. Two page ad for "Empress of Britain" 4 month world cruise. Very manly full page Cop-R-Loy ad with plumber with huge pipe wrench. Full page Listerine tooth paste ad with Karen Sundstrom, Grace Rowland, and Bernice Green. Photos of John L. Lewis, labor leader, sitting in many positions. British rearmament, photo of aircraft carrier Ark Royal and start of construction for sister ship to Queen Mary. England prepares for the coronation. Angels from Harlem - followers of Father Divine, legal troubles including Delight Jewett of Denver. Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson is sued. Log chopping contest in Hayward, Wisconsin. Mischievous Cocker Spaniel Snarky rescued from the ocean, owner Ross Newfarmer. Feature story on Hollywood. Actress Janet Gaynor. Painter Edward Hopper. Striking full page color Chevrolet ad with mint green car. Lost John of Mammoth Cave. Excellent full page color International Trucks ad with green truck. Religion in the Soviet Union. The British in India's Northwest frontier (now Pakistan). Clark Gable meets old girlfriend Franz Doerfer, after being accused by Mrs. Violet Norton. A party in honor of Elsa Maxwell with the New York Cafe Society. Bicycle records, Charles M. Murphy's speed record broken by Albert Marquet - photos show how they did it.
Very Good - $58
Good - $45

Life Magazine May 10, 1937 : Cover - Boy playing with Migs, marbles, miggies, immies. Muncie, Indiana – great US Middletown – essay and photos, includes full page photo of barber Ed Kehrer shaving William H. Ball, Ball family (Ball canning jars), William H. Hahn family, Scott and Lizabelle Brandenberg, Rollin H. Bunch family, Pocahontas Lodge, Sunbeam Club, Mable Duncan Kemp, Cora B. Pierce, many others - great history piece. Blind actors put on a play. Glenn Martin, aviation pioneer - big piece. Movie review – The Prince and the Pauper. Westminster Abbey photo essay. Child stars – Billy and Bobby Mauch. Ha, an early "Christo" artwork, William Levitt wraps a house in cellophane. Photo – Germans celebrate Hitler’s birthday. Mexican Propaganda movie – The Wave – by Paul Strand. Basque fighters, Bilbao, Spain. Trout fishing in Pennsylvania with John Alden Knight, fly fishing. Full page Schlitz beer ad. Humorous photo of a little boy and his dad, he wanted his hair cut just like his dad, who is mostly bald, Martinsville, Indiana. Leslie Howard (Gone with the Wind star) in color ad for Lucky Strike.
Very Good - $52
Good - $42

Life Magazine May 17, 1937 : Cover - Dionne Quintuplets, the Quins, Callander, Ontario - fantastic charming photos of 5 toddlers "Going on three." Full page Studebaker ad with Bob Hope and Masestro Richard Himber. Interesting full page color Monroe adding-calculator ad. "War Admiral" wins 63rd Kentucky Derby horse race, including photos of jockey Charley Kurtsinger and Samuel D. Riddle, plus more on the Kentucky Derby and other jockeys. Minnesota's last logging drive, Photos at bridge near Nett Lake on Littlefork River. Zeppelin Hindenberg explosion - five full pages of excellent photos. Columbia River salmon fishing fleet puts out to sea. 150 Grand Pianos played at same time for the 125th Grand Piano Festival in Indianapolis. Artist John Kane. Full page color Budweiser beer ad with cave theme. Burmese cremation of a monk. Baby Giant Panda Su-Lin with Mary Bean and Mrs. William H. Harkness Jr. Mrs. Simpson wears fashion by Schiaparelli. Cartoons about British Character by cartoonist Pont, Graham Laidler. Dutch Cigar testers. Girl golfers Clara Callender, Mrs. Brent Potter, Jane Douglas, Joyce Wetherel. A party at the Lake Shore Athletic Club in Chicago, including Joe Lewis, Coleman Clark, Margot Reid, and many others. Lovely full page color Chevrolet car ad, night scene. Crow Indian nation arrow throwing contest. Cute photos of Priscilla Lane surprised in the bath.
Very Good - $33
Good - $23
Fair (All Good, but has a water marked corner tip toward back) - $10

Life Magazine May 24, 1937 : Cover - sheep in pasture. Super full-color ad - Autocar Trucks Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the State Department. Bob Feller, baseball sensation, goes back to Van Meter, Iowas to get his high school diploma. Photo of H. L. Queen at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania biting someone during a strike. Page of photos showing segregated railroad cars, Jim Crow coaches. Spring lambs on the sheep ranch of Fred Holmes and Jack Wing, in the Sacramento valley. Full page color Canada Dry ginger ale ad with tennis theme. Movie - Kid Galahad. Russian self-rising parachute. Two page Mobil Gas, Mobil Oil ad with the ship "Queen Mary." Painter Paul Chabas dies. Carl Akeley's animals - taxidermist, naturalist, African explorer. Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady turns her Long Island estate "Inisfada" over to catholic church. Dutch army bicycle band. Duke of Windsor joins Mrs. Simpson 18 hours after her divorce is final. Irish rebel Maude Gonne McBride. Blanket toss at Nebraska's Municipal University of Omaha, including Frances Blumkin. Dick Bartell of the New York Giants, baseball. Alice Marble, tennis. Full page Pullman railroad car ad with cute little girl. A party given by Julian P. Van Winkles and Mrs. Henry J. Powell, Kentucky derby. Striking full page color Autocar Trucks ad with yellow and red truck. Photos and short story of two bucks locked together by antlers, one saved by Union Pacific railroad crew near Ogden.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine May 31, 1937 : Cover - Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (great feature inside). Humorous full page Paramount studios ad with Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, includes studio skiing photo. Full page Whitetrucks ad with five different White vehicle in use. Carl Klein's great photos of falling horse riders Mrs. J. B. Balding, George Hoblin, Kathryn Lord, Mrs. James C. Clark, Rolph Prym, Mary Clothier, Clifford Weihman, Noel Laing, H.C. Hine. Helen Hayes saves theatre from censorship. Banned plays - Damaged Goods, Sex, Sapho, The Demi-Virgin, The Firebrand, others. Minsky brothers burlesque. Neat aerial photo of Hamlin Sandvig's barn, destroyed by tornado, horses still standing in stalls OK. Maryland passes a law to end the Elkton "Marriage Mill". Henry Ford fights the Unions, lots of great historic and current photos, including Warren Grim and family. . Memphis cotton carnival, two separate festivals, one black and one white, with photo of boy eating cotton candy - the caption makes it clear that most readers do not know what cotton candy is in 1937. Movie - I met him in Paris with Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, with skiing and other winter sports photos. Wow - cool full page color International Trucks ad with yellow truck on green background. Kent School Rowing - Coach F. D. Walker, Father Sill, Evan W. Thomas, John A. Blair. Coronation of George VI by Archbishop of Canterbury. Spanish rebels bomb Bilbao, Spain. Antigo, Wisconsin Prom with Lorraine Gallaspy. Lucky Strike at with Miriam Hopkins.
Very Good - $58
Good - $48

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Life Magazine June 7, 1937 : Cover - Feet in Saddle shoes, Class of 1937. College boy and girl - 1937 model - this is general feature about kids in college, a long article. Nice full page color Packard ad, no car but has nice painting of kids pretending a wedding. University of Missouri is typical for state education - another long feature. Little Doane college in Crete, Nebraska. Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with Dorothy Pynton Hill, champion high diver. Commonwealth College in Arkansas. College Presidents, includes framable full page portraits of Bryant Conant (Harvard) and James Rowland Angell (Yale). University of Virginia Campus, Charlottesville. University of Chicago campus and Rockefeller money. Observatories. Tutoring. Rockford rowing. Stephens Junior College. College leaders. College customs. Harvard Library. Some stand-out students, including Howard Bourne, Edward Lane Stanley, Lenore Alberton, Mary Fellows, Constance McClure, Gardiner Pollich, others. Pole vaulters Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton. Full page Gantner Wikies and Swim suits ad. Caps & Gown. Old Yale photos 1888, 1878, football team in 1888 and same people in 1937, more old Yale photos of teams and clubs. Scabbard and Blade pledging ceremony at University of Arizona in Tucson. Party at the Tubs in Pownal Creek above Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine June 14, 1937 : Cover - US Senator James Hamilton Lewis. Full page Studebaker ad with the Morlok quadruplet sisters of Lansing, Michigan. Mass baptism at Immanuel Temple, Los Angeles - Reverend Alton Earl Lee. Feature on the U.S. Senate. American Medical Association makes a movie to fight syphilis. U.S. Steel Corp fights the CIO with airplanes and police, including bi-wing planes at Warren, Ohio. Chicago Memorial day riot. Kentucky Frontier Nurses, including lots of photos. Nine-lens aerial camera - aerial views of Washington D. C. Cute full page color Coca-cola ad with boy scout jamboree theme. Movie of the week : "Parnell" with Clark Gable. Viennese Ball at Boston's Hotel Somerset, including Mary Cootes, Ethel du Pont. The popular Dachshund dog, Dachshunde. Washington Spelling bee, including Waneeta Beckley, Anthony Scheidler, Frank L. White. The seascapes of Frederick J. Waugh. Extraordinarily cute full page color Beech-nut gun ad with circus performers, clown and strong man. The Bach choir of Bethloehem, including photos of members in their everyday life such as Steve Rashevich (baker), Naomi Houser (nurse), Albert C. Buss (hokey pokey man). Hot air Balloon fire - Professor Piccard's $35,000 stratosphere balloon burns. Frederick B. Snite, Jr. travels from China to Chicago in an Iron lung, infantile paralysis. Two page ad for B.V.D. swimsuits, lots of suits shown. Photos of Missouri's last public hanging, Roscoe (Red) Jackson. Bicycle train - Haven & Hartford railroad.
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Life Magazine June 21, 1937 : Cover - Reno divorce myth - woman kissing pillar. James J. Braddock vs. Joe Louis. Mechanics of a Reno divorce and more about Reno. Horse roping with Jack Case. Ultrillo. Windsor wedding. US dust bowl floods, plus dust bowl art and article. Revolt of the Beavers, WPA Theatre. Hog Call vs. Bayou Bellow. Boleslaus Krzystofcxyk marries Irene Kaluza - a party in Cicero, Illinois. Two page ad for Hudson cars. Neat Color ski ad as part of two page Grace Line ship ad. Two page ad celebrating the 125th anniversary of the National City Bank of New York. Photos of a selection of funny weddings, including Leon Cohn in San Francisco (on roller skates), Tom Durgan and Melba Robinson in Oakland (in a cemetery), Lawrence Hanlon and Ethel Cobban near Astoria Oregon (CCC - on a fallen tree), Herman Jarrett and Elaine Scroggins near Grant's Pass Oregon (in animal skins), Elton Rogers and Macie Thrift in Memphis (frozen in ice) and others. Policeman Charles W. Davis of Springfield, Illinois is given a beat 23 1/2 MILES long in an effort to get him to retire. Wreckage of Western Air Express plane crash (December 15, 1936) finally found in Wasatch mountains of Utah. Nice full page color International Trucks ad with red dump truck. Art related to LIFE's summer camps (this story is a tie to the Original Life magazine). Multiple photos of the Perricone quadruplets, Beaumont, Texas. Photo of Back scratcher for humans (a post) in Cleveland, Ohio. Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with Floyd Stimson, parachute tester.
Good - $32

Life Magazine June 28, 1937 : Cover - art photo of woman on beach. Full page color Canada Dry ad with little girl in red playing with dog, art by Lawrence Wilbur. Great series of photos collected by train locomotive enthusiasts, includes Weed burner, New York, New Haven & Hartford 1880s train, New York Central (((, Illinois Central engine 382 / 2012, much more. Flight to Bermuda, includes great photos of Cavalier, Imperial Airways planes in water, more. Nice full page photo of Leonard Olds, worker at Newton Steel plane in Monroe, Michigan - with a gun. Swimming, including amazing crowd in Lake Michigan at Chicago, beach activities, diving, nude swimming, more. Jules Bache art collection, some in color. Confederate 47th reunion, includes photos of General Harry Rene Lee, General Homer Atkinson, Ransom Simmons, more. Open crown hats. German racer - Mercedes-Benz speed champion, 160 MPH. Forest fires - nice feature. Golf - the open. Movie - The Road Back. The amazing little Nancy Darken, sings and tap dances upsidedown. Full page Silver Dollar whiskey ad with really old tyme boxing theme. Very roundabout way of announcing a royal pregnancy - Princess Juliana of Netherlands. U.S. Groom of the Year - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Neat Univex Cine * movie camera ad. Neat Labatt's beer ad with a special Semi-truck Two page ad for Pullman train cars showing all the accommodations. Party at Frary House in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Bement School, photos include Jeff Avirett, Alice Blanding, Kee Spruyt, Helen Hackett, others. Photo of the most sway backed horse ever. Another photo of a cat getting milk straight from the cow, James Sharp of Kennedy, New York, Chesborough Seminary.
Good - $32

Life Magazine July 5, 1937 : Cover - corn. Steel strike - the right to strike. Child abuse of Laddie Van Ness by Theresa Cronin. Washington Crews sweep Poughkeepsie Regatta, including photos of Joe Rantz, Mike Bogo, Eddie Schenck and Dan Hume. Driving logs from forest to factory - log floating to Three Rivers paper mill in upper Gatineau region, International Paper Company. Social democracy. Bastille. Male beauty salon. Palestine - photo essay. Full page color Ethyl gasoline ad with fishing and harbor front scene. Super full page Hires Root beer ad with two steel workers in high rise frame. Full page color Camels cigarettes ad with Gloria Wheeden, Miss Southern Florida, Harry Burmester, Floyd Stimson and others. 28th International Rotary convention in Nice. Movie of the Week : Knight Without Armor with Marlene Dietrich. Life goes to a party at the Carolina Cotillion Club's 57th Annual June German in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Photos of Glen Craig family in Muncie, Indiana. Strange burial of Thomas Pursell, fireman.
Good - $24

Life Magazine July 12, 1937 : Cover - Grace, the dummy. War in Spain movie - horrific photos with captions by Ernest Hemingway. Audubon's birds - includes four full color pages (blue jay, golden eagle, ruby-throated hummingbird, and Baltimore oriole). East Indian volcanoes - Vulcan and Matupi in Rabaul, New Guinea. . Transcontinental trucking, including photos of Edward "Red" Holiman, bobtail trucks, Rosie's truck-line cafe (on Dallas-Houston highway), Angeline Monakino, Max Kirby. Fitchburg High School, Massachusetts - new school built after old one burnt in 1934. Lunt and Fontanne open Greek comedy. Newsreel on south Chicago Memorial day riot. Relief jobs now viewed as careers. Neat full page Studebaker ad featuring Billy Rose's Cleveland Great Lakes Exposition, with swimmers Johnny Weissmuller, Stubby Kruger, Dick Degener, Marshall Wayne, Sam Howard and others. Very cute full page Hires Root beer ad with boy on roller skates who has fallen and dropped a bag of groceries. Full page ad for Alex Morrison's new book about learning to golf. Charming full page color Nucoa oleomargarine ad. The story of Harry Hopkins of Sioux City, Iowa - becomes head of new Relief program. Conflict in Manchukuo on Amur river - Birobidjan Russian Jewish Autonomous Region. A party with Spencer Penrose at the Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs, includes photos of little train at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Photos of Andy Gump in person, Andy Wheat.
Fair (All Good, Nice!, but one interior page is torn across, no paper missing) - $28

Life Magazine July 19, 1937 : Cover - Black toddler playing in water spray in Harlem - Very cute photo. Himalayan climb of Nanda Devi, H. W. Tilman, Farnsworth Loomis, Charles S. Houston, Noel E. Odell, H. Adams Carter, T. Graham Brown, Peter Lloyd and Arthus B. Emmons III - article includes lots of photos and information on seven Germans who died in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. . Amelia Earhart, large photo feature including photos of her airplane. Scottsboro boys, Clarence Norris and Charlie Weems, an endless case, photos of all 8. . Billy Rose's shows in Fort Worth and Cleveland. Vermont, photo essay including Aurora Pierce, H. J. Nelson, Fremont Thompson, Barney Foster, Mrs. Lewis Shonin, Dr. W. Scott Nay, and others. Painter Luigi Lucioni paints Vermont. Vanderbilt cup racer. Walkathon - marathon dancing, including Benny Leonard, Billy Cain, Edith Downey. Maine Narrow-gauge railroads. Burning of unsafe Cameron Bridge near Utica. . Full page LaSalle car ad with bears in National Park theme. Cute two page Texaco ad with helpful serviceman. Photo demonstration of how a Half-Tone is made. Full page Goodrich rubber ad with Army Tank. Full page Elgin watch ad with Saly Burguieres of New Orleans. Photo of Albert Dyer, who confessed to killing three little girls. 26,000 Boy Scouts hold a Jamboree. German race car driver Bernd Rosemeyer takes the Vanderbilt cup, photos. Photos of British airplanes after a year of rearmament. Neat aerial photo of Edinburgh. Two page Association of American Railroads with city railroad yard. A party with Hal Kemp's "Name Band" at Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Nice full page color Canada Dry Ginger Ale ad with swimming theme by Walter H. Seaton. Full page Camel cigarettes ad with swimmer Lenore Kight Wingard.
Excellent - $45
Very Good - $32
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Life Magazine July 26, 1937 : Cover - polo pony. Demonstration of how the Four-color Letterpress printing method works. Full page ad for Real Silk stockings fitted with numerous measurements of the ladies legs, not like today's nylons. Very cute full page Hires Root Beer ad with Scotsmen. Headlines proclaim the rise of Racism and Communism in America. Artist Thomas Hart Benton hunts communists and fascists in Michigan. Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor of the U.S. Communist party. Death of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson. An $80,000,000 was on the grasshopper plague in the American West, includes photo of flame thrower mounted on train. Dr. Arnold Gesell and his study of human infant behavior. Full page colorful International Trucks ad with curious orange truck with open grid-work back. Tuatara, oldest prehistoric reptile from New Zealand. Fifty cent polo attracts public, includes photos of Pete Bostwick, Louis Stoddard Jr. and more. Full page color Desoto ad with red car and horse polo theme. Charlie McCarthy, ventriloquist's dummy, and Eddie Bergen. Radio City Music Hall Rockettes go to Paris. Bicyclists set out on the "World's Hardest Race" around France, the Tour de France, includes photo of German cyclist Bautz and others. Neat photo of crew team from Tabor Academy of Marion, Massachusetts. Horrible crash photos from car race at Atlanta's Lakewood Park speedway, drivers "Wild Bill" Moore and Gordon Chard. A party at the Old Club of Detroit.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine August 2, 1937 : Cover - Sister Coletta (Nun) making salad. Wheat, including Jacob Meyers' farm near Lenexa, Kansas and lots of photos, and Eureka, South Dakota with photos of Solomon Isaak, Adam Preszler, Wilhelm Schumacher, Martin and Christina Grosz and others. Spitulism at Lily Dale, including Maggie Waite and Horace Stanley Hambling. Washington airport and boycott. Pre-fab house erected in 8 hours, Thor Hansen engineer, Walter Harnischfeger producer. Pilots do not like the small and dangerous Washington airport. America's Cup Yachts, includes some excellent color illustrations of early famous sailing yachts, plus photos of captains, others yachts, more.. Building of boat "Ranger." Movie of the Week "Toast of New York." Brazil destroys coffee. King takes castle. Iceland - photo essay. Nice full page color Ethyl ad for gasoline, with Herford cattle ranch. Excellent early full-page Plymouth car ad mentioning gas mileage. Full page Camels cigarette ad with Erl Roman catching a monster Blue Marlin, plus Gloria Wheeden and Clarence E. Dare, forest ranger. 60 Golden hours retreat for Asbestos Workers Union at Hinsdale Friary, including photos of Hugh Patrick Dunn (Chicago), Martin Fardy, and others. Photo of Fifield twins of East Thompson, Connecticut - six sets of twins in same family.
Very Good - $30

Life Magazine August 9, 1937 : Cover - Watermelons going to market. National Guard Motorized maneuvers, many great photos . Life of Emile Zola. Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Watermelons, including Roy E. Parrish of Adel, Georgia. Pony vs. Plane. Archery, including photos of Russ Hoogerhyde, Bruce Robertson, Gladys Hammer, and Mary Nagler. Spun glass : Fiberglass insulation being made by Corning Glass Works. Full page Studebaker ad with Kate Smith, radio headliner. Full page Fisk tire ad with man doing one-arm hand stand on skyscraper edge. Feature on Eleanor Holm, swimmer, with many photos. Senate majority leader Alben W. Barkley on the parallel bars. St. Mary's College is auctioned off for $411,150. "City of Baltimore" steamer burns in Chesapeake Bay. Photo of Daniel Berg robbing the cash register in Milwaukee - photo set by shop owner Irving Straubinger. Unusual sideways full page color Coca-cola ad. 36th International Convention of Christian Endeavor in Grand Rapids, Michigan - includes photos of Mrs. Harriet Clarke of Newton, Massachusetts and others. Lovely two page Oldsmobile ad with family. Paris Exposition of 1937, includes photo of Shirley Joy Ellis of Seattle Sexy half page Linit soap ad. Private Lives : small photo and interesting caption of Erika Mann, Barbara Stanwyck, Patricia Benefield - tobacco user at six months of age, Hazel Whitman, and others. A party with Cecil Beaton.
Very Good - $45
Good - $35

Life Magazine August 16, 1937 : Cover - Young camper on the Viking ship at Camp Lanakila, feature article on summer camps including Aloha Camp (Fairlee Vermont), Camp Dudley (Westport, New York). Madam Chiang Kai-shek (China). President Roosevelt's album. Model bride - Kathllen Williams Capps, models, then marries. Private flying. Sermon in signs for deaf. Radium mine - Radium city near Great Bear Lake, Canada - no safety concerns, oh my gosh! Alice Marble tumbles in tennis match. Yachting, including Clark Wright on the Maruffa. Detroit's archbishop. The flying Codonas, Alfredo Codona kills himself and his wife. German art purge. Texas manhunters catch a killer near Galena Park road. Full page Kroehler Furniture ad. Texas manhunter catches killer of J. C. Stiff, includes photos of policeman H. H. Thornton who shot one of the killers. Photos of Roxanne Herrick of Little Monroe, Michigan, child prodigy. Learning to become a private pilot, lots of photos including Waldo D. Waterman, the Arrowbile, and color photos of airplanes. Photo of Pan-American Clipper plane built by Sikorsky as part of Radiocompass ad. Photographer Gerda Taro is killed in Spain, first woman photographer killed in action - this is a two page tribute to her, she was also Rober Capa's lover and collaborator on the book documenting the Spanish Civil War, 'Death In The Making'. LIFE goes to a party with youths at LIFE's summer camps (this story is a tie to the Original Life magazine).
Very Good - $38

Life Magazine August 23, 1937 : Cover - Transoceanic transport plane. Full page Sal Hepatica ad with Mrs. Ralph Reese. Full page color Sealex inlaid linoleum ad for truly wonderful looking floor. Here is one of those awesome early ads - full page color for Autocar Trucks, red and yellow van truck. Candid photos of tourists at Niagara falls in the rental raincoats, more. Huge cotton crop causes prices to crash. Bickering democrats. Slum disaster - tenement collapses into it's flooded basement on Staten Island after heavy rains, killing all but three - spawns talk of slum regulations. First modern King in Egypt. New York police solve a mystery of a maid murdered by a mounted policeman, Irma Louise Pradier, Arthur H. Chalmers. Crazy photo of Elsa Rahr high diving with her horse. Girl Scouts jubilee (many photos of girls, each with home town and name of each girl. . Little Donald Horst - foster mother vs. real mother. Wreck in Missouri - Missouri Pacific railroad. London's big holiday. Transport panel board - this is a labeled view of an airplane cockpit. Transoceanic air service, Pan American Airways wins, plane tickets include all hotels and meals during the flight! Boeing builds the Atlantic Clipper airplane. Golf in Portland, Alderwood Country Club, Oregon. Very crowded beach photo from Margate beach in England. Photo feature on Peiping, china. John Farr vs. Joe Louis, boxing. Pretty color circus ad on back cover for Beech-nut gum. Perhaps the most horrible photo ever of skin peeling after sunburn, Robert Whittaker.
Very Good - $38
Good - $28

Life Magazine August 30, 1937 : Cover - A frog. Life goes on a frog hunt, Chico, California, participants named. Neat photos of how photographers get photos with unusual angles. The U.S. dedicates its battle monuments, 8 cemeteries and 11 monuments in Europe to honor military, lots of marble. A made-up photo of military manuevers showing lots of mistakes, Camp Ripley, Minnesota. Soapbox derby in Akron, Ohio, includes Hugh Flury Jr., Kenneth Richardson, Richard and Robert BAllard and others. Mrs. Josie Bishop strikes radium, gold and silver, pitchbelnde in California's Mojave Desert. Tennessee lynching of Albert Gooden, other tarring and feathering, beating, killing. Socialist Herbert Harris, oiled and feathered in Dallas, Texas for showing a pro-union propaganda movie called "Millions of us." Ku Klux Klan and Justice Hugo Black. Alf Landon builds a White House. The art of Waldo Peirce. Smashing atoms - science, at East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. International cattle breeding. Idaho farm sinks 300 feet - Harley Robertson farm, thought to be on roof of collapsing lava cave. Soap box derby finals. Champion dives in sand, J. Briscoe Ray. Full page Camel cigarettes ad with various swimming champions. Yachting on the desert, like ice boating, but on wells. Soft Ball. Photo essay - the Japanese people - super article, long. Great color ad for Ethyl (auto gasoline).
Very Good - $30
Good - $20
Fair (All G, but lower margin has a faint water mark) - $8

Life Magazine September 6, 1937 : Cover - Harpo Marx. Bombing of Shanghai. Awesome photos of in the Pamir mountains of Russia, Tajikistan. Lily Pons sings in Chicago. The strange case of Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr. Budapest smile school. Joseph Day, real estate salesman. Chasing meteorites is a career, Harvey Harlow Nininger. Donald Budge - tennis champion. Miss Yah-Yah, Poland's tennis star. Basket race in London for porters. Seven Seas sails. Reporting Paris fashions. John And Wilma Lewellen of Muncie, Indiana (the famous "Middletown", see LIFE May 10, 1937) photograph New York City. Two page Association of American Railroads ad with close-up of locomotive engine. Weirton steelworkers hear case of C.I.O. versus their boss Weir. Murderous politician Joseph J. Bruno is caught. James Rip Collins of the Chicago Cubs baseball team breaks his ankle, photos. Lily Pons sings before record breaking crowd in Chicago. An amazing National phenomena - the Old Gold cigarettes contest, winter William R. Staggs, Florence Zimmerman and others. Deanna Durbin in "100 men and a girl." First photos of the bombing of Shanghai. A party at George S. Kaufman's house for Harpo Marx and others. Mrs. Anne Bok of Rangeley Maine has a lay-down strike to stop trucks running through her property.
Very Good - $34

Life Magazine September 13, 1937 : Cover - Weir of Weirton. Weirton, West Virginia, article includes photo of steel workers Bill Benninghof, O. D. Pratt, Don Ackley, others. What American Tourists think of Europe. Photoelectric signs for advertising. 2,000 year-old warrior is unearthed. Robert Riggs, comic artist. Amateur golf - Johnny Goodman. Believe it or not, this is where Ripley lives. Boxer Joe Lewis, Tommy Farr. 1,500 pairs of twins at convention, including Alta and Alva Dank, Marjorie and Margaret Doll, Mrs. F. M. Cawby and Mrs. Henrietta Billings, Harley and Harry Edgell. Party at Oklahoma girls reform school, Tecumseh. Cute full page color Del Monte Pineapple Juice ad with two little girls on a beach. A whole series of photos (every year) of Frank H. Chadwick and his daughter Marion, as she grows. Full page ad for Listerine tooth powder. Photos of accidental bombing of Great World Amusement Park in Shanghai, China. Newest Seversky racing plane. Photo of caskets - Mrs. Elsie Nollen of Denison, Iowa kills herself and six children. Excellent full page photo of Apache Chief Asa Daklugie. 16 Native American tribe meet in Gallup, New Mexico. Fashion - hats inspired by the Belgian Congo. Legless Charles Ziummy Zibelman swims from Albany to George Washington Bridge. Liberia celebrates 90 years of independence. Movie - The Prisoner of Zenda with Madeleine Carroll.
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Life Magazine September 20, 1937 : Cover - Yehudi Menuhin's hands (violin). Cool photo sequence of pilot crashing plane on purpose in New Ulm, MN. U.S. Aviation - National Air Races in Cleveland including photos of Gladys O'Donnell, S. Wittman, Frank Fuller Jr., Rudy and Greve Kling, Count Otto Hagenburg (who crashed), parachutists, more. Jews celebrate their holiest days. Georgia opens escape-proof prison, State prison near Reidsville, marks beginning of end of the Chain Gang. Prehistoric Giant sloth tracked to lair, paleontology, Rampart Cave along Colorado River in Arizona, scientist Jerome D. Laudermilk and Philip A. Munz. Doris Lee, painter. Carole Lombard. Iowa Farm - "corn into hogs" photo essay including photos of Charles Dewey Woodruff farm, Howard L. Roach, Blanche Woodruff, Wilbert Hoppenworth, . Tennis gold cup, Donald Budge and Anita Lizana are champions, photos. . Modern Tintypes, street photographers in New York City. New York City's mayoral candidates, including LaGuardia. Gruesome photo of Edward S. Roth killed while changing a flat tire. American pilot Harold E. Dahl saved from execution by his innovative wife. Dr. Urey Isolates heavy twin of Nitrogen. Hayride party at Dunham Woods Inn outside Chicago, including photos of Dud Kelly, Earl Hearn, Horton Conrad, George Woodland, Nancy Knode, Peggy Sargent and others. Photo of Ananias Schrock and family originally from Alabama - belong to sect that forbids smiling. Nice photo of starlet Jean Chatburn on an Indian motorcycle.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20
Good (lower corner in back has stiffer section but no noticeably real damage, spine has 1" split at lower end of cover) - $12
Fair (All G, nice, framable cover, but has minor margin water mark) - $9

Life Magazine September 27, 1937 : Cover - Nelson Eddy. Aga Khan is elected President of the League of Nations Assembly - many photos including his son Sadruddin's first time on skis. Bradford Washburn is first to climb Mt. Lucania, Yukon territory - great photos, including airplane with skis. Mediterranean patrolled for peace. Mr. Justice Black and the KKK. Infantile paralysis closes Chicago schools. Miss America, Bette Cooper of New Jersey - also many photos of Phyllis Randall (Francis Paxton) of California. Hitler's brother Alois opens a bar on Wittenberg Platz in Berlin. . Cream of U.S. Biologists gathers at Woods Hole. Chiropodists at Columbus convention, treat damaged feet, blame shoes, includes early corrections of bunions (hammer toe). Backstroke swimming champion Adolph Kiefer. How to dress for football with Charles Ream of Ohio State University, gives price of all pieces. Neat full page color Ethyl (gas) ad with miner and mine processing plant. Full page Johnson's Floor Wax ad with model train. Full page Elgin watch ad that includes photos of football player Harry Martin, University of Virginia. Song Pantomimes. Photo of British cruiser "London" lying off Venice. Photos of bombed and sinking ships in the Mediterranean, including Campeador, Armuru, Viribus Unitis. Artist Miguel Covarrubias in Bali. Great two page color 1938 Studebaker ad with yellow 4 door car. Freak photo of spiral lightning (tornado of lightning) at Lake Maggiore, Switzerland. Some chilling Nazi propaganda photos. Movie "Stage door." Full page General Electric ad including photos of Mrs. H. Schwartz of Detroit with two sons, two-year-old Jackie Leary of West Hartford, more. A party on Penikese Island with scientists from Wood's Hole.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20
Fair (All G, nice, but cover mildly foxed) - $9

Life Magazine October 4, 1937 : Cover - 7:15 in a Legionnaire's home - Wallace Ramseyer's home at Fairbury, Illinois. Very large American Legion feature. New York Parade. Legion biography - 1919-1937. A typhoon wrecks Hong Kong, photos of many wrecked ships including S.S. An Lee, Van Heutsz, Asama Maru, Tymeric, Hong Peng, Talamba. Union Pacific Railroad gets new president. Pneumonia vaccine administered to the CCC. Roebling amphibian for storm rescues. Movie - Victoria the Great. Sport - the three Di Maggios make good, Joe DiMaggio, Vincent DiMaggio, and Dominick DiMaggio baseball players. 3,000 antlers hang in Connaught's lodge. Very nice Hires Root beer ad with hikers - full page. Humorous (from today's point of view) full page Phoenix Mutual ad "Retire at 55 on $200 a month." Interesting full page Listerine ad for the treatment of dandruff, Pityrosporum ovale. Very neat bunch of photos of the various uses (safe and dangerous) hobos (dingbats) find for different railroad cars, Dan O'Brien, King of the Hobos - includes the most gruesome photo of Ray McArthur who was cut in two beneath a train. Photo of Mrs. Caroline King, widow of 1812 veteran. Feature - Wallace Ramseyer, legionnaire. Lovely two page color 1938 Packard ad with blue Six and red Eight. Rather astounding photo of Airplane ready to crash over Scarborough Castle, pilot E. G. Hilton and Owner Sherren both died. Photo of Ku Klux Klan in First Methodist Protestant Church of Washington. Paul Draper dances in Manhattan. Chattanooga Cotton Ball, with William Lockhart Clayton and more. Cute photos of baby William Donald Mason and a jar of jam.
Very Good - $38

Life Magazine October 11, 1937 : Cover - Chuck Williams (University of Southern California Football team). French bombs rebuke employers. Army gets new boeing bomber : the XB-15, the big brother of the Flying Fortress.. Beautiful male athletes chosen, Jacques Pasquet, Tino Chrisa, Andre Rolet. Hog callers. Building of the Grand Coulee dam. Queen Mary sister ship under construction, Cunard White star line. X-ray photographs, some quite horrible including surgical scissors left inside Mrs. A. R. Banks of Catoesa Oklahoma. Lou Little explains football. Barkless dogs, Basenji. Quarter page New Departure coaster brake ad for bicycles. S.S. Vaterland, renamed Leviathan, sold for scrap metal, lots of photos of fancy interior. Joe Kennedy starts to build a new Merchant Marine, getting rid of old ships from World War I. Photo of Freshman-Sophmore mud fight at Los Angeles Junior College. Photo of freshmen at Louisiana State University with shaved heads. New Queen's General Hospital also has new art by William C. Palmer. Actress Myrna Loy. Cute full page Squibb Dental Cream ad with youth football theme, Billy C. Full page color Arrow shirts ad with baseball theme. The Dionne Quintuplets. Two page American Railroads ad with track repairman. Sauerkraut festival in Forreston, Illinois. Launching of the tanker ship Red Crown at Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Very Good - $42
Good - $32
Fair (All G, nice, but cover is loose and a bit rough along spine) - $16

Life Magazine October 18, 1937 : Cover - Veils today and tonight (Janet MacLeod) by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Full page Diamond Tires ad, even before they had traffic lights. A funny series of photos showing how movie directors demo acting for the actors. Full page Goodrich rubber ad with backyard Polo, which looks like croquet. Roosevelt makes foreign policy. Bishops in Cincinnati. The President's album. $400,000,000 fur year, includes horrible photo of piled white fox pelts with heads still attached. Golfer John Montague, turns out to be fugitive La Verne Moore. Aerial view of Yankee baseball stadium. The Episcopal Church 1529-1937. John L Lewis Jr. goes to Princeton. Justice Black and cigarettes. Romans in Ethiopia - photo essay. Veils in Manhattan - photo essay. Brain Waves. Life of Charles F. Kettering, Part 1. John McCrady paints Oxford, Mississippi. Brooklyn museum cleans painting - Garden Scene by Pieter de Hooch removing later additions. How to watch football. Brain waves, especially of mental cases, includes Allen Davis, Dr. Hallowell Davis. Viceroy throws a spear. It stops raining in Ethiopia and Italy goes back to work. Movie doubles, including Eugene de Verdi for Charlie Chaplin. Parties at Maisonette Russe and El Morocco in New York. The Yacht Endeavour I is lost at sea in a storm and found again, the second time! Nice Aerial photos of Sydney, Australia, the famous Sydney bridge (or one iteration of it) is already in place. Nice full page Belle-Sharmeer stockings ad with art by Shriver.
Good - $20

Life Magazine October 25, 1937 : Cover - Hunting Spaniel biting an itch, photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Full page ad for Harvard Classic book series, how to get rid of an inferiority complex. Photo of US Fleet sailing out of San Pedro harbor for secret battle manuevers. George M. Cohan mimics Franklin D. Roosevelt. A stay-down strike by miners, in Coaldale, Pennsylvania, they stayed down for seven days! Boos Beck of Seattle. Giant sues for libel, Robert WAdlow of Alton, Illinois. Neat illustrated story about Lord Tweedsmuir and his tour of Canada's Northwest, includes aerial photos of a number of communities, such as Aklavik, Ft. Smith, Tuktoyaktuk, others, natives of Coppermine, more. Very nice two page color Cadillac ad with LaSalle, Sixteen and Fleetwood. Clive Brook meets an emergency. Tank on trip. Brady Gang's end in Maine. With Canada's Governor general to the Arctic ocean - photo essay, including eskimos. Feature on Danielle Darrieux. Arctic bishop - photo essay. James Daugherty's murals of America. World's biggest turbine. Mt. Vesuvius blows a smoke ring, cool photo. Life of Charles F . Kettering, part 2. How Spaniels are trained to hunt. Movie of the week - Heidi, with Shirley Temple (lots of photos). Veiled Prophet's Ball in St. Louis.
Good - $20

Life Magazine November 1, 1937 : Cover - Jupiter and Mercury on Broadway. Full page color Hurff vegetable soup ad with art of very big country family at supper. Iowa State football game vs. Nebraska in Ames, Iowa - fans photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Neat full page Quaker State motor oil with group with broken down car in winter. Stock markets crash from Coast to Coast. Champion milk cows. Mainliner's end in Utah snow - United Air Lines plane crashes on Hayden peak, gruesome photos. Harvard Law School feature, includes great full page photo of Barring Hesse Couglin and others. Japan beheads some bandits. Foreign cars - mammoths and midgets, Delage, Fiat Balilla, German Adler, French Panhard-Levassor and others. . Negro stonecutter exhibits in Manhattan. Sad case of Paul and Myra Reeves, Margaret Drennan. The Hayden Planetarium - Four Ways the world may end. . Nice full page color Coca-Cola ad with three kids at soda counter, MHS bullhorn. Nice full page color Diamond T truck ad, cool truck. Sport - Football feature, great photos, also article on Ohio State football. Honors for Man O'War race horse and his owner. Movie - Stand-In. Milking a mouse - science. The Lunts laugh at Olympian love - theatre. Party to listen to Benny Goodman and his swing band. Nice color Chesterfield ad on back cover. Horrible photos of a girl getting cut in half with a circular saw, Great Lester magic act (in plain sight, no box). Nice full page National Hotel Management NHM ad with football theme.
Good - $25
Fair (Generally G, a nice reading copy, but cover is rolled toward spine, first page has rough edge, faintly water marked edge) - $9

Life Magazine November 8, 1937 : Cover - Greta Garbo - very nice. Duke and Duchess of Windsor turn from Germany to America. U.S. Steel gets new faces. NY Sewage at Hell Gate. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. Princeton freshmen. Night climbers of Cambridge, buildering. Britain gets tough in Palestine. 3 great bombing planes tested. Through Mt. Wilson's 100 inch telescope. Czechoslovakia. 200" telescope coming in 1940 to Mt. Palomar. Vampire bat. Demand for the new zipper outruns the supply. Cute photos of people who look like their pets. Interesting full page Fisk tire ad with aerial stunt artist and stunt pilots and two bi-wing planes. Full page Gripper Fasteners ad (Scovill Manufacturing) with football player Monk Meyer. Bad medicine leaves trail of dead patients, including photos of Dr. Archie Calhoun, Lula Herrin, Evelyn Sharbrough, in Mt. Olive, Mississippi. Excellent full page International trucks ad with lilac (yes, purple) truck. 6 page advertisement for the Radio Corporation of America. Insurrection at Narragansett race track. Charades revived, "The Game." Six man football teams are on the boom, photo from Nehawka, Nebraska. Life goes to a corn husking party in Kent, Connecticut
Very Good - $35
Good - $25

Life Magazine November 15, 1937 : Cover - Assistant engineer Hamilton on U.S. Lightship Portland. Yorktown aircraft carrier, a big ship. Ships and planes swell navy's budget, neat photos of first "Flying Dreadnaught", a huge Sikorsky bomber plane. National Horse Show and Excelsior Springs Mulesta mule show. Twentieth Century Fox drama school, including Mary Frances Gifford, Marjorie Weaver, Dixie Dunbar, Arlene Whalen and others.. Artist Paul Sample. Bedauxes host the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Josef Hofmann, Pianist. Society girls show legs. Joe Louis at Dude ranch, Murray's Overall Dud Ranch, restricted to Negroes. Old cars seen on screen. Sculptor Jacob Epstein. American housing, with George Bradford family in Washington and Greenbelt. Rich Mrs. Bates lives in squalid basement on relief in New York City. Midland Michigan leads the way in private housing. Field hockey - Rosemary vs. Low-Heywood. Endless rails (welded) end track noise. Full page Bell & Howell movie camera ad with little girl on sled. Lovely full page color Toastmaster Toaster ad with Christmas theme. University of Southern California shows Cheering section pictures in stadium. Nice full page Bell Telephone and Western Electric ad showing repair man. Movie "It's Love I'm After" with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis. Toy "China Clipper" airplane for Christmas.
Excellent - $42
Very Good - $30
Good - $20
Fair (All G, but has a water marked edge at back) - $9
Fair (Generally G, but cover foxed, extra tanning inside) - $7

Life Magazine November 22, 1937 : Cover - One year old baby, to celebrate Life's one year birthday, photo taken by H. Armstrong Roberts, may be a Roberts child. Neat full page color Armstrong Linoleum Floors ad with view inside the lovely Grauel's Market in Baltimore, mint green food displays. Charming candid photo of little Barbara Joanne Flemming, Allentown, Pennsylvania, also Jimmie Washburn of Des Moines, Phyllis Dauda of Washinton D.C. Joe Kennedy reports on the American Merchant marine, they need more men, new ships. Neat photo of the Airacuda, an experimental bi-motored fighter plane built by Bell Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo. Full page photo of Peggy Hepburn, Bennington College in Vermont. Caldwell and Bourke-White look at Cotton country. Dy-Dee - most popular doll in the world. Albania's Zog, his sisters and his girl friend. Striking sailor sits down in a river. Bennington - an experiment in progressive education that works - photo essay, lots of named photos. French are having their troubles in North Africa - photo essay. Movie - the Hurricane, starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall. Madame Curie. M.I.T. wins dinghy races on Charles river. Plaster model shows female anatomy. More crazy hats. More on the war in China. Nice two page Association of American Railroads ad. International Casino club in New York.
Good - $20
Fair (All G, but front cover and first two pages mildly soiled) - $9
Fair (All G, but front cover has mild soil) - $9

Life Magazine November 29, 1937 : Cover - United States capitol building. Supreme Court sits for a new portrait. Full page 1938 Studebaker car ad featuring WElls Fargo. Full page ad for Washington State apples, includes photos of Shirley Joy Ellis, Ray Daughters, Al Ulbrickson, Jack Medica (swimming champion), more. Photos illustrations of various Red Cross health and safety Don't, such as don't turn on light from the bathtub. In the article about congress, photos include Mr. Walter Uline (furniture maker) and one of his workers, Tobie Tobias, Ira Chupp, Nappanee, Indiana, more. Different pocketbooks - different furniture. Fanny Brice's Unhappy married life. New York Communists celebrate in the Garden. Minature rooms, like doll houses. Nice full page color Coca-Cola ad with worker on his lunch break. Sun Yat-sen statue put up; Vulcan statue raised again. Tuberculosis - photo essay. Sport - Little Doane wins its big football game, Crete, Nebraska, includes cheerleader Barbara Winslade, Jande Adams, others. Science - first view of measles virus. Greek freighter sinks off Cape Hatteras. Rev. James I. Seder of Huntington, West Virginia - kidnapped, then dies of pneumonia in coal mine. Roller skating party in New York. Walter Wanger's movie "52nd Street." A new sea to sea railroad in Persia, Iran. A roller skate for charity party at Mecca Temple Casino in New York. Nice series of photos of Willie Dodd, born without arms, doing everyday things like putting on his hat. Awesome Christmas Chestfield ad on back cover - color, lady in white gown against red background.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine December 6, 1937 : Cover - Japanese soldier with machine gun. Americans go hunting, including photos of Fred Wiesbrock, ERsie Barnes, Herman Liedel, Lloyd La Bign, Mrs. Clayton Buell, Joe Schnitzler (paraplegic), Hunter's Shindig at Nahma Michigan, and more. Cactus Jack Garner. Congresswoman vs. Cherry Trees. Johnstown celebrates with Mrs. Knox. Hirohito reigns. Full color Japanese war art. Earl Haig, general, new statue. Stalin with daughter. Massacre in Haiti. Conquest of Asis - photos and neat art! Ice skating. Six negro debutantes : Glodine Marion Smith, Lorene Marjorie Brown, Gladys Lee Carr, Gladys Lewis Powell, Hattie Ruth Green, and Eddy Mae Johnson plus photos of other participants. Full page color Firestone tire ad with Ab Jenkins, who set 87 speed records. Photos of Hitler with German youth. Photo of US Forest Service ranger with the bear Tom Hollands shot. 8 page advertisement for Radio Corporation of America. Duck hospital on Great Salt Lake, US Biological Survey, including photos of E. R. Quartrup and D. R. Coburn. Photos of railroad locomotive and cars being cut into pieces to make guns.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20
Fair (All G, but extra tanning inside) - $9
Poor (All G, nice Reading Copy, butouter pages are split at spine and disbound) - $5

Life Magazine December 13, 1937 : Cover - Southern Pacific train locomotive under repair in Sacramento shop, Billions of dollars and millions of men - ICC considers an increase in freight rates, article of interest to train history buffs. Nice letter to editor likening captions to photos, "as important as a bridegroom is to a bride." Actually interesting two page Bell Telephone System ad with all the presidents of the company, photos, first jobs, first pay rate. The palm prints of famous people, palm reading. President Roosevelt calls for 3,000,000 Dream Houses (cost $3,000 to $6,000 each), great floor plan of one, exterior photos of many, some interior photos, these are reasonably sized homes unlike what it built today in 2007.Dr. Gustav Eckstein and his canaries, birds. California's oldest native son - ancient native American grave in Sacramento valley. British army buys U.S. mules. Los Angeles landslide in Elysian park. Biggest toy train maker has biggest year - Lionel. Should High Schools become Trade schools? Black Haiti, Voodoo - photo essay. Movie - Snow White, two pages are in delightful color. Science and Industry - Antiaircraft guns, great photos. Very nice full page color International Trucks ad with yellow Kingan's Reliable Hams and Bacon truck. A brutal stage murder in "Of Men and Men" with Claire Luce, Broderick Crawford, Wallace Ford and more. Full page color DeSoto car ad with Alice Faye in a red car. Very nice full page color Fisher car body ad (Unisteel turret top) with ski theme, well done. Party with New York socialite Cynthia (a mannequin). Full page Grippers gold ad with Ralph Buldahl and Sam Snead. Small photos and letter on the coolest car! - the cabin sedan by Arthur S. Thompson, top lifts up
Very Good - $68

Life Magazine December 20, 1937 : Cover - Hope Chandler (now Hope Hearst), prettiest girl in Paradise (feature inside). Candid photo of various Hollywood writers in the throes of writing. Pneumonia - new serums, animal experimentation, includes photos of John Forrest (Harlem postal clerk). The Kennedy family - 9 children and $9,000,000. Plane manufacturers close best year, photos include odd looking Grumman amphibians J2F-1 plane, Douglas DC-3, more. Movie - Tovarich, starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer. Some art from the Carnegie show in color, including "The Burial" by Czeslaw Wdowiszewski (full page, framable), Pyke Koch, Robert D. Greenham, Eugene Speicher, and more. Holiday parties with Big Apple - a dance, article includes named photos of other dance moves, too. Comedienne Ed Wynn's "Hooray for What!" Charleston restores first U.S. theatre. Ace Speed flier Rudy Kling dies in plane crash in Miami. Riverside Church in New York - Photo essay. Feast for Wines of Burgundy, includes table with whole suckling pigs on it. Move - Tovarich. Deanna Durbin is 15. Super full page photo of Private Fred Davis. Another gross fox hunting photo, Hampshire Hunt. Humorous photos of weird midwest hats. Party for Hollywood children to raise money for Spanish children.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20

Life Magazine December 27, 1937 : Cover - The Frick collection, the portrait of La Comtesse P'Haussonville. Sinking of the US Navy gunboat the Panay by accident. Trek to Northwest Territory 1787-1937. New Hudson River tunnel is opened. Mitzi Green at 17 in color. Esme O'Brien at 17 in color. A day in the life of a New York debutante. Detroit's WXYZ wins award. Christmas in Naziland. Christmas in Quintupletland. Science - Television, a successful headache. Frick Collection. Party at a Fireman's Ball in New York City. Mexico's first execution of a murderer in a decade - photos, Carlos Garcia Martinez. Edward Weston's western photos. Max Schmeling defeats Harry Thomas by technical knockout, boxing. Convicts at South Carolina State prison kill guard in attempted jail break. Building of the Lincoln Tunnel (New Jersey to New York City under Hudson river). Sound stages and ongoing movies in Hollywood - neat article on how the sets are done. International Ladies Garment Workers union goes into show business with a musical revue.
Very Good - $30
Good - $20