The Wasp — 1877 — page 294: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical cartoon depicts a chaotic Thanksgiving dinner scene. A figure on the right (appearing to be a gentleman in military dress) sits at table while being served an elaborate turkey by caricatured servants with exaggerated features. Other dinner guests display distressed reactions—one covers his mouth, another appears shocked. The scene seems to mock either wealthy San Francisco society's pretensions or, given the exaggerated servant depictions and the 1877 date, likely critiques post-Reconstruction racial attitudes and class disparities during the Gilded Age. The specific political target remains unclear without additional context, but the cartoon's tone suggests satirizing hypocrisy around American ideals of equality and shared abundance during holiday observance.