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# "At a Church Wedding" - Life Magazine, May 16, 1895 This cartoon satirizes class differences and regional attitudes in 1890s America. The illustration shows a wedding scene with two figures: a groom described as appearing "quite cool" and a bride identified as being "from Boston." The humor likely plays on stereotypes about Boston's upper-class society and New England propriety contrasted with the groom's demeanor. The ornate decorative border on the left suggests this is a satirical commentary on formal social occasions and their rigid conventions. The joke appears to hinge on social awkwardness or unexpected behavior at a formal wedding—a common subject for Life's satirical commentary on American society's class consciousness and regional pretensions during the Gilded Age.
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VOLUME XXvV. NEW YORK, MAY 16, 1895. : NUMBER 646. Entered at the New Vork Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. Copyright, 1895, by Mircnent. & Mitten, AT A CHURCH WEDDING. She: THe GROOM SEEMS QUITE CooL. He; THE BRIDE Is FROM Boston,