The Wasp — 1890 — page 54: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a **title/advertisement page**, not a cartoon. It displays a business advertisement for **Easton, Eldridge & Co.**, a real estate and auctioneering corporation operating at 638 Market Street in San Francisco (opposite the Palace Hotel). The page lists company officers: Wendell Easton (President), Geo. W. Frink (Vice President), F. B. Wilde (Secretary), and notes the Anglo-Californian Bank as Treasurer. The prominent flag graphic is the company's logo/emblem, a standard advertising design of the era. There is no satire or political commentary visible on this page—it appears to be a straightforward business advertisement included in *The Wasp* publication, likely as paid advertising.