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Saturday Evening Post illustration featuring an Infernal Machine.

THE ISSUE: Infernal Machines in the Saturday Evening Post of 1881

Saturday Evening Post Volume 61 #23, December 24, 1881 features a fictional story called At Sea with an Infernal Machine, by J.F Bardsley An "Infernal Machine" can mean a few different things but figuring out what it meant in this particular context led me to one of the most fascinating backstories I have researched in[...]
J.C. Leyendecker November 21, 1914 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, titled "Beat-up Boy, Football Hero"

J.C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post Cover Hits Record $4.1 Million

Best remembered for his advertising and book illustrations, WWI posters (his "Weapons for Liberty" war bonds poster is one of my favorites of the period) and The Saturday Evening Post and other magazine covers, Leyendecker's expansive influence on the field of commercial illustration has even extended to comic book artists I know more than a[...]