Life Magazine, January 2, 1950 - Midcentury issue

Special issue : 1900-1950. Color photos from 1900s - by Alfred Stieglitz. The Golden Years before the war. Falling Horses and Stuck Cars. High Society High Jinks. Small Town Life, Boonville, Missouri. Well dressed and undressed. Interesting spread showing the span of life and causes of death in 1900, 1925, 1950. Interesting full page Turkey Red Cigarettes ad in the old style. Nevada Gold Rush. Explosives through history timeline. Full page Ipana tooth paste ad with Mrs. Cornelius H. Van Vlaanderen of Ho-Ho-Kus and her children. Baby Century M. Shaw, the first baby of the 20th century, Mrs. Mackey Shaw. Valentino - the great lover. Early advertising - great reproductions of early ads, including Cigaret Premiums cards, Brandreth's pills, Lambertville Rubber Company, more. Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs take car trip together. Profiles of 1920 heroes, Charles Lindbergh, Grover Whalen, John Held Jr, Red Grange, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Gilda Gray, Clara Bow, John Scopes, Sinclair Lewis. The great armory art show of 1913. Fifty years of women's roles in America - Anna Held, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Carry Nation. The 1922 Edward Hall, Eleanore Mills murder. Chesterfield ad with Bing Crosby. Nels Elofson saga in Chicago. Allen Nevins reviews the audacious Americans. Jack Dempsey - boxer profile. Nels Peter Elufson, immigrant - his life and family through 1949. The Vanderbilt Mansions. The first Adams Korn Kurls ad I remember seeing. Composographs - faked news pictures bring journalism to a half century low, 1925, New York Evening Graphic, similar to tabloid aliens and such.