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Life Magazine, August 23, 1937 - Transocean Plane

Life Magazine, August 23, 1937 - Transocean Plane

Life Magazine, August 9, 1937 - Black Man on Watermelon Cart

Life Magazine, August 9, 1937 - Black Man on Watermelon Cart

Life Magazine, August 16, 1937 - Summer Camp

Original Life Magazine from August 16, 1937 - Summer Camp, kid, child
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Excellent Condition (3 Available)
$31.95
These issues are extremely nice. These are in amazing condition and are great for framing or giving as a cherished gift. Some may have very minor defects and address labels.
Good Condition (2 Available)
$23.95
These issues are in pretty good shape. These are great for those who want a complete, original, average condition issue to read and enjoy. They may have some light to moderate flaws like small tears, spots, library stamps etc. but would make a great piece of history for the budget minded to mark any occasion.
Some of the contents in this issue
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).

COVER: SUMMER CAMPS 

MEl-LING, WIFE OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK 

TEXAS MANHUNT

MOVIE: 'SOULS AT SEA' GARY COOPER 

AVIATION: MANHATIAN'S DOWNTOWN SKYPORT 

AMERICANS GET PRIVATE PilOT LICENSES 

HOW TO FLY AN AIRPLANE 

lONG ISLAND AVIATION CLUB  

TENNIS: ALICE MARBLE