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The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene VI - Evenings down Town [man at bar] – Historic Reproduction

The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene VI - Evenings down Town [man at bar], c1877. — historic print
The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene VI - Evenings down Town [man at bar], c1877.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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In Scene VI of Cassius M. Coolidge's ten-part series *The Tale of a Wedded Life*, titled "Evenings down Town," a man is shown at a bar, the saloon setting that marks the story's turn away from home. Multi-scene sequences like this were a popular format in American cartoons of the 1870s, using a sequence of images to tell a moral story about married life. Saloons were a frequent target of such satire, since critics of the period often blamed late nights of drinking away from home for strained marriages and neglected families. The record notes that this print reproduces a cartoon drawing signed "Kash," and its humor reflects the temperance-minded attitudes of the time.

Created / publishedc1877.
Medium1 print.
NotesRepro. of cartoon drawing signed Kash
Subjectscopyrighted 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan984 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146692

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