The Wasp — 1890 — page 414: what you’re looking at

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This 1890 *Wasp* cartoon depicts a caricatured figure in formal dress wielding dynamite and other weapons outside San Francisco's City Hall. The figure appears menacing and anarchist in character, holding explosives while the building looms behind. Background elements include signs reading "VOTE FOR C.C.O" and "POST NO BILLS," with caricatured officials visible atop the building, labeled "OUR NEXT MAYOR SANDERSON." The satire appears to target political corruption or a specific candidate through anarchist imagery—common 1890s rhetoric for attacking political opponents. The cartoon likely comments on threats to municipal governance, though the specific identities of "C.C.O" and the precise political context require additional historical documentation to confirm.