The Wasp — 1892 — page 387: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains business advertisements from 1880s San Francisco, including: - **Pacific Bank** (banking services) - **Palace Hotel** (luxury accommodations) - **John Wieland's Lager Beer** (brewery advertisement claiming "largest brew on the Pacific Coast") - **Occidental Hotel** (lodging) - Various shipping companies, insurance firms, and merchant services The only illustration is the **Palace Hotel building** — a straightforward architectural drawing meant to showcase the hotel's impressive structure, not satirize it. This appears to be a standard advertising section from *The Wasp* magazine. While *The Wasp* was known for satirical content, this particular page serves as commercial advertising rather than editorial commentary or political cartoons.