The Wasp — 1893 — page 398: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire. The main illustrated feature, "The Bogus Camera—No. 1," shows two panels titled "Taking in the Situation" and "The Attack," depicting what appears to be street scenes with figures operating cameras. The cartoons likely satirize amateur or fraudulent photographers, a common subject in period humor. The title "Bogus Camera" suggests the joke concerns fake or incompetent picture-taking. However, without clearer identifying details in the sketches themselves, the specific targets or individuals caricatured remain unclear from the image alone. The remainder of the page consists entirely of advertisements for patent medicines, breakfast cocoa, dental services, and other commercial products typical of 1890s publications.