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The Complete Cartoon Archive
Every plate we can restore — the full run.
The Wasp, published in San Francisco from 1876, was the West Coast's answer to Puck — a color satirical weekly with a sting. Its chromolithographs are vivid and, at times, ugly: like much of the era's press it trafficked in anti-Chinese and other racist caricature, which we present as a historical record and label honestly rather than scrub. This is the archive we have recovered and restored — public domain, digitally cleaned and labeled at comicbooks.com.
Funeral of LazarusEdward Jump 1863 (published in The Wasp, San Francisco)
Funeral of LazarusEdward Jump 1863, Edward Jump
Senator John D. Works, 1911The Wasp Publishing Company January 21, 1911
The Modern NewspaperLewis April 18, 1891
Handy Lists of Technical Literature (1889)Haferkorn, Henry Ernest, 1859-1933.; Heise, Paul. 1889
General S. W. Backus, Owner of *The Wasp*Not stated 1892
The Result of Reducing Our ArmyGeorge Frederick Keller August 5, 1876
An Alphabetical List of Engravings Declared at the Office of the Printsellers' Association, LondonIncorporated Printsellers' Association (London, England); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) Exact date uncertain; early 20th century