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The San Francisco Wasp – based at 514 Market Street – operated as a colorful publication “of illustration and comment,” running from 1876 to 1941. The digitized pages are from July 23, 1898 and February 20, 1904 issues. Founded by the Bohemian expatriate Korbel brothers, the weekly publication developed an overtly racist approached to immigration and geopolitics that was often manifested in its cartoons. It is historian Richard Samuel West’s contention, however, that, particularly under the leadership of Ambrose Bierce, the Wasp’s satirical approach was also “a force for good, puncturing sham, afflicting the comfortable, bringing down the wicked, and advancing the cause of political reform.” One notable object of the Wasp’s stinging ridicule was the legendary Big Four of Leland Stanford, C.P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.
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