The Wasp — 1888 — page 108: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily an **advertising page** from a San Francisco satirical weekly, not a political cartoon page. The masthead announces "M. MEUSSDORFFER'S HATS ARE 'THE' STYLES" and the issue is titled "The Wasp" (Volume XX, Number 6). The page consists almost entirely of **commercial advertisements** for local San Francisco businesses—piano dealers, whiskey importers, dentists, a tailor, photographers, shoe makers, and patent water closets. Two portraits appear advertising patent medicines: "Wilson's Vaporizing Inhaler" for treating catarrh, asthma, and bronchitis, and "Dr. Henley's Celebrated Bitters" for sale by dealers. No significant political satire or social commentary is visible on this particular page—it functions as a revenue-generating advertisement section typical of 19th-century periodicals.