The Wasp — 1893 — page 459: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It features commercial advertisements from San Francisco businesses circa the 1890s-1900s: - **Bartlett Springs** (top): A mineral spring resort in Lake County, California, advertising seasonal reopening - **The Cleveland bicycle** (Davis Bros., Market St.) - **General Hurlcigar** (Kerbs, Wortheim & Schiffer) - **Lyon's London Tailor** (suits from $19.50) The only potential satirical content is a brief humorous sketch about a wife's dress not fitting—a domestic comedy joke common to period magazines. The page demonstrates how *The Wasp* mixed advertising revenue with editorial content, typical of 19th-century American periodicals.