The Wasp — 1893 — page 459: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and business directory** for San Francisco establishments, with minimal satirical content. The left side contains two sections: "OUR DENTISTS" (showing crude caricatures of patients in dental chairs in awkward positions) and "OUR ARTISTS" (featuring a landscape scene with a figure). Below the artists section is commentary mocking San Francisco personalities—a landscape painter named Mrs. Pete Aluma, Mr. Don Doolittle (described sarcastically), and Miss Haight Street (personified as melancholic). These brief, unnamed jabs appear to be local society jokes. The bulk of the page lists San Francisco businesses and manufacturers in multiple columns—a typical Wasp revenue source. **Overall**: This is a hybrid advertising/satirical publication page with light local mockery rather than substantive political content.