The Wasp — 1888 — page 161: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and railroad/steamship schedules**, not political satire. It contains: - Train schedules for Southern Pacific Company routes from San Francisco - Steamship sailing information for Pacific Coast Steamship Company, Oceanic Steamship Co., and Pacific Mail Steamship Co. - Commercial advertisements including Liebig Company's meat extract, Napa Soda Springs, and Tarrant's Extract The only visual content appears to be **product advertisements with trademark imagery** (Liebig's meat extract label, Tarrant's Extract bottle) rather than political cartoons. As a **Wasp magazine page**, it likely included satirical material elsewhere, but this particular page is dominated by commercial notices typical of late 19th-century periodicals, which mixed editorial content with substantial advertising revenue.