The Wasp — 1890 — page 154: what you’re looking at

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**Top Cartoon**: Depicts two men at a dining table with bottles. The caption reads "Here's to do colored fair sex! Dar face needs no powder, dar hair no fumery!" This appears to satirize racist attitudes and stereotypes about African American appearance, mocking both the subject and those who held such views. **"Photogrophia" Section**: Critiques the "Native Sons" organization's commercialism, suggesting they've become too focused on profit (hotel coaches on Montgomery Street) rather than civic principles. It's a satirical jab at how the organization allegedly abandoned its original ideals. **Bottom Cartoon**: A city doctor tells an undertaker to let a patient take a measure—a dark joke implying the patient is dying and needs to be measured for a coffin.