The Wasp — December 6, 1879 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains commercial notices for San Francisco businesses circa the late 1800s, including: - Music boxes and tailoring services - Nicoll's tailor shop (branch of New York), prominently featuring "THE ELECTRIC LIGHT" as a sales gimmick - Emil Frese's Hamburg Tea (a patent medicine advertised with multiple health claims) - S.B. Wattson & Co. (cigars and tobacco) - C. Herrmann's (hats) The page demonstrates how **electric lighting was still novel enough to be a major marketing attraction**. The Hamburg Tea ads exemplify 19th-century patent medicine marketing—listing exaggerated medicinal benefits for a generic herbal product. There is **no identifiable political cartoon or satire** on this page; it represents typical period advertising copy.