The Wasp — 1888 — page 388: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **a title page and advertising section** rather than editorial cartoon content. The masthead declares "M. MEUSSDORFFER'S HATS ARE 'THE' STYLES" at the top, indicating the magazine's commercial nature. The page contains **numerous San Francisco business advertisements** from 1888, including: - Tailors, dentists, photographers - Whiskey and liquor merchants - Investment bankers and real estate dealers - Patent water closets (toilets) Two notable advertisement illustrations feature **caricatured male faces** (Wilson's Vaporizing Inhaler and Dr. Henley's Bitters), using exaggerated physiognomy common to period advertising—though without clear political significance. This represents typical 19th-century satirical magazine funding: advertisements subsidized editorial content.