The Wasp — 1887 — page 52: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and business directory**, not satirical content. It features three companies: 1. **The Bancroft Company** (founded 1856) - a San Francisco history building housing the Historical Company and engaged in wholesale/retail book, stationery, and printing business 2. **The History Company** (founded 1882) - publishers of Hubert Howe Bancroft's Historical Works 3. Business listings describing their operations The left column contains poetry and anecdotes (including "Sunday Prohibition in Texas" and "Catarrh, Catarrhal Deafness"), but these appear to be filler content rather than satirical cartoons. **No political cartoons are visible on this page.** It functions as a classified advertising section combined with miscellaneous editorial material typical of 19th-century magazines.