The Wasp — 1888 — page 288: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily a **title page and advertising spread** from *The Wasp* magazine (October 13, 1888), not a political cartoon page. The large decorative title "The Wasp" dominates the upper half, with "Volume XXI, Number 15" noted below. The remainder consists of **commercial advertisements** for San Francisco businesses: hat makers, photographers, dentists, hotels, whiskey, shoes, patent water closets, bitters, and other goods. Notable is Wilson's Vaporizing Inhaler advertisement featuring a illustrated mustachioed man's face—a common marketing approach of the era. There are no visible political cartoons, caricatures, or satirical illustrations on this particular page. The "satire" referenced in the masthead appears elsewhere in the magazine's interior pages, not on this title/ad page.