The Wasp — 1888 — page 384: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is **primarily advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains hotel and boarding-house listings supplied at wholesale rates, alongside tea and coffee merchant advertisements for the San Francisco area. The header reads "THE WASP" (a satirical magazine), but this particular page (15) is devoted to commercial directory content—hotel teas, business listings, and accommodation options. There are no visible political cartoons, caricatures, or satirical illustrations on this image. The page serves as a practical commercial directory for late 19th or early 20th-century San Francisco travelers and residents, showing how satirical magazines supplemented editorial content with revenue-generating classified advertisements.