Issued December 1, 1912

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL -December 1, 1912

The Semi-Monthly Magazine

“The Captain of the Susan Drew”

LE FROU FROU – December 1, 1912
A dark haired girl in a peach dress combing her hair as a bald man in a tuxedo looks on

THE POPULAR MAGAZINE – December 1, 1912

JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES MODES – December 1, 1912

Supplement, vol. 1, no. 19
Rose colored coat with blue fox fur trim worn over peg-top skirt. Hat adorned with upright feather plume

Issued November 30, 1912

Issued November 28, 1912

LIFE magazine – November 28, 1912
Debutantes Number

A shy young lady approaching a devil who is reading “Art of Flirtation.”

“The New Pupil” by F W Read

Issued November 23, 1912

Clarence F Underwood was born in Jamestown, New York in 1871. He studied at the Art Students League and the Academy of Julian in Paris in 1896. Underwood was a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York City in 1910 and was on staff of the New York Press. He currently illustrates for SATURDAY EVENING POST, LADIES’ WORLD and other magazines as well as many literary works.

SATURDAY EVENING POST
November 23, 1912
cover art by Clarence Underwood

Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith began their publishing partnership in 1855. The company became a publisher of inexpensive novels and weekly magazines starting in the 1880′s. After their deaths, Street & Smith Publications Inc. specialized in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as pulp fiction and dime novels. The term pulp referred to the cheap paper stock they used. THE POPULAR MAGAZINE was started in 1903.

THE POPULAR MAGAZINE
November 23, 1912

COLLIER’S WEEKLY
November 23, 1912
“Thanksgiving”

COLLIER’S WEEKLY
November 23, 1912
“Thanksgiving Turkey”

 

 

Issued November 16, 1912

LITERARY DIGEST
November 16, 1912

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
November 16, 1912
Gold Production

With elections finally over, HARPERS WEEKLY finally runs a non-political cover by Waler Biggs.

HARPER’S WEEKLY
November 16, 1912

Joseph Christian Leyendecker was born in March 1874 in Montabaur, Germany. His family settled in Chicago, Illinois in 1882. Leyendecker studied at the school of the Chicago Art Institute and he and his brother Francis Xavier enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris, France. In 1899 Leyendecker received his first commission for a SATURDAY EVENING POST cover. He moved to New York Citywith his brother and sister and became a successful illustrator creating the Kellogg Kids for Kellogg’s and The Arrow Shirt Man for Arrow Shirts using his lover as the model.

SATURDAY EVENING POST
“Thanksgiving Turkey” by L C Leyendecker
November 16, 1912

Maxfield Parish was born in July 1870 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was an engraver and landscape artist and his parents encouraged his talent. He attended Haverford College, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Drexel Institute of Art. At age 28 he moved to New Hampshire and purchased land opposite the valley from his parents’ home. He started illustrating children’s book like L Frank Baum’s Mother Goose in Prose (1897), Poems of Childhood (1904) and Arabian Nights (1909). He is a sought after illustrator for advertisers like Wanamaker’s Department Stores, Edison-Mazda Lamps, Fisk Tires, Colgate and Oneida Cutlery and of magazine covers such as LIFE and COLLIER’S.

COLLIER’S WEEKLY
November 16, 1912
“Soldiers” by Maxfield Parish

 

 

Issued November 9, 1912

Clarence F Underwood was born in Jamestown, New York in 1871. He studied at the Art Students League and the Academy of Julian in Paris in 1896. Underwood was a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York City in 1910 and was on staff of the New York Press. He currently illustrates for SATURDAY EVENING POST, LADIES’ WORLD and other magazines as well as many literary works.

SATURDAY EVENING POST
November 9, 1912

COLLIER’S
November 9, 1912

CAVALIER
November 9, 1912
“The Day Of Days”

HARPER’S, reflecting the recent election, shows president-elect Woodrow Wilson and VP Thomas Marshall taking a bow while the Democratic donkey stands with a halo.

HARPER’S WEEKLY
November 9, 1912
cover art by C J Budd

 

 

Issued November 7, 1912

Paul Carl Stahr, Jr. was born August 8, 1883 in New York City. In 1902 he began his art studies at the nearby National Academy of Design, where he won a bronze medal and graduated with honors. He first worked for a lithographic company that produced show posters for Broadway theaters.

LIFE magazine – November 7, 1912
Thanksgiving Number
“The Shrine” by Paul Stahr

Issued November 6, 1912

NEW YORK TIMES
November 6, 1912
“How The States Voted”

PUCK magazine was founded by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler in St. Louis in March 1871 as a German/English publication. The first English language edition was published in New York City in March 1877. Artists and writers from PUCK started their own magazine JUDGE in 1881. By 1912 it has a circulation of over 100,000.

PUCK magazine – November 6, 1912

Uncle Sam crows as Mother Hen Democracy looks on with pride as newly hatched chick Democratic president elect Woodrow Wilson emerges from his egg.

PUCK
November 6, 1912

Issued November 3, 1912

When a woman wore full-length skirts and petticoats the sound (onomatopoeically speaking) that a woman’s satin or silk skirts made as the material swirled or swished together was described by the word “frou-frou”. It entered popular slang and in 1870 became the title and title character in a play by Augustin Day which was very popular in the US and Europe. The character Frou Frou was described:

“What name could I give her, indeed, more appropriate than that which seems to have been invented for the delicious little creature who bears it? What else is she but Frou Frou? A noisy, bustling, busy little fairy – ever rustling, rustling like the leaves stirred by a gentle wind. Frou Frou, always; Frou Frou, everywhere! In the house a door opens and down the stairs comes a rustle of skirts like a whirlwind. … And I am sure, that while she sleeps, the angel that watches over her waves its rustling wings with the dear little sound, Frou Frou!”

In 1912 there is a French humor/fashion magazine called LE FROU FROU. It comes out on Sundays and always has a young fashionable woman on the cover.

On November 3, 1912 LE FROU FROU a woman with dark hair and a green dress is escorted by a man in a tuxedo.

cover of LE FROU FROU
November 3, 1912

Issued November 2, 1912

COLLIER’S The National Weekly
November 2, 1912
“The Philosopher”

CAVALIER
November 2, 1912
“The Street Car Mystery”

Harper’s Wewekly, a constant Roosevelt critic, shows a parody of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem of 1864 “Barbara Frietchie” where Roosevelt is Stonewall Jackson and Taft is Fritchie protecting the flag.

HARPER’S WEEKLY
November 2, 1912

 

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
November 2, 1912

Robert Robinson was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1886. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and from 1909 to 1912 with the famous illustrator, Howard Pyle.He moved to New York to be near magazine publishers and helped originate the Saturday Evening Post’s “Slice of Life” style of cover art. Robinson’s typical work focused on rural men “old geezer” types.