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LIFE Magazine - December 26, 1949 - Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

Life magazine from 1949, complete and in good to very good condition, showing some wear (see below). Measures about 10½" X 14" with 74 pages. Cover is a detail from one of Michelangelo's murals on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Some Highlights of What's Inside:
Speaking of Pictures - Highlights of the U.S. Camera Annual 1950 with examples by Ad Windig, R. Moncalvo, Bill Brandt and Eva Besnyo
New Americans One Year Later - The Bronnys and other DP's with several photos (displaced persons)
A $50,000 Piece of Baked Goods - Pillsbury's National "Bake Off"
New York's Shaveless Friday - New York water shortage
The Future Looks Fine to Churchill - Winston Churchill with some photos
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel - article and several photographs by Frank Lerner including a center fold-out of the entire ceiling
Kids Portray Pop - Connecticut kindergarten pupils surprise fathers with some unexpectedly accurate "portrait studies" (several photos!)
Electricity Without Wires - Article about Markite
De Beers full-page advertisement with artwork by Jean Hugo
Prize Christmas Cards - Hallmark art contest with artwork by Edouard Goerg, Fred Conway and several others
Three Gobs on the town - the musical "On The Town" with photos
The Fruitful Mountaineers - article about Waltis Kilburn's 14 children and the baby boom in Leslie County, Kentucky
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Carol Channing and the musical
Life Goes to Opening of the Caribbean's Fanciest Hotel - the Hilton in Puerto Rico
Blatz Beer advertisement with Pat Harder (inside cover page)
Plus the usual departments and of course the fantastic advertising of the day!
Condition:
Edge/Corner Wear: mild to moderate, mostly to corners with considerable wear along spine edge
Surface Wear: mostly mild
Soiling: mild to moderate
Spine Separations: no major separations
Tearing: some small tears along binding staples, otherwise just minor tearing
Inner Pages: very good to excellent
Other: minor creasing present

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SKU	710030704
Quantity in stock	1 item(s) available
Price:	$12.00

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LIFE - December 26, 1949 - Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel