The Wasp — 1877 — page 210: what you’re looking at

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This page contains two unrelated illustrations: **Top cartoon**: "A Chinese Barber Shop, Dupont St." depicts a satirical scene at a Chinese barbershop, likely in San Francisco's Chinatown. The image appears to mock Chinese barbers and their practices through caricatured figures—one seated being shaved, another standing. The exaggerated features reflect the xenophobic visual stereotyping common in 19th-century American satire. **Bottom illustration**: "Tyrone Mills on the N.P.C.R.R." shows an industrial landscape with a railroad and mills in mountainous terrain. This appears to be documentary rather than satirical—illustrating actual industrial infrastructure, possibly in Pennsylvania or another northeastern industrial region. The page demonstrates The Wasp's mix of racial satire and industrial imagery typical of period American magazines.