Before Life magazine became Henry Luce’s photojournalism gem, it was a “cultured” humor magazine founded in 1883 with an emphasis on satirizing New York’s social scene, lower classes and racial and ethnic minorities. In the 1900s, when it cost just 10 cents, illustrator Charles Dana Gibson devised the magazine’s most celebrated figure in its early decades. His creation was the Gibson Girl, a perfectly proportioned, regal beauty—the nation’s feminine ideal. Life became known a