The Wasp — 1877 — page 76: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *The Wasp* (February 10, 1877) is primarily comprised of **classified advertisements** and editorial content rather than political cartoons. The "Wants Column" lists numerous job postings and notices seeking workers—street superintendents, policemen, reporters, typists, and various other positions—reflecting San Francisco's labor market of the period. The main editorial article, "Looking Up the Wrong Man in an Asylum," describes a satirical incident where a farmer named Thomas M. Lewis was mistakenly brought to an insane asylum, then released when officials realized he wasn't the intended patient. The piece mocks both the asylum's administrative confusion and the ease with which someone could be wrongly institutionalized. There is no visible political cartoon on this page.