The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene V - Muscle [couple fighting] – Historic Print
![The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene V - Muscle [couple fighting], c1877. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/84253d121b6e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene V - Muscle [couple fighting], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene V - Muscle [couple fighting]
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Fifth in a ten-scene comic sequence, this drawing, titled "Muscle," shows a married couple come to blows, a sharp turn in a series that follows a marriage from its beginning. Cassius M. Coolidge's *The Tale of a Wedded Life*, dated around 1877, belongs to the domestic humor that American cartoonists of the 1870s often used to comment on married life and social manners. The caption tracings point to saloons, which suggests the drinking and quarrels that temperance-minded writers of the period blamed for wrecked households. The reproduction preserves a drawing signed "Kash," though the record's details are unverified.
| Created / published | c1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of cartoon drawing signed Kash |
| Subjects | copyrighted by C.M. Coolidge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons, U.S.--1877; Marriage; Manners and customs; Saloons. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,036 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146691 |
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