The Wasp — 1889 — page 71: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is predominantly **advertising and transportation schedules** rather than editorial cartooning. It contains: - Multiple railroad and steamship company advertisements (Southern Pacific Company, Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Oceanic Steamship Co., etc.) - Detailed train and ship departure schedules with times and routes - Patent medicine advertisements (Liebig Company's Extract of Meat, Tarrant's Extract, Cubebs and Co.) The only identifiable satirical element is **Cubebs' advertisement**, which features a classical allegorical figure. However, without accompanying editorial text or caricatures of specific political figures, the satirical intent cannot be determined from the image alone. The page primarily served The Wasp's readers as a practical reference guide for West Coast travel and commerce circa the 1880s-1890s.