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The Wasp’s first anti-Chinese cartoon, The Equal of Persons Gibson and Loomis, was a response to Reverends Gibson and Loomis' positive testimony to the “good character” of the Chinese immigrant in April 1876 before the Committee of the Senate of the…

The Chinese Question is full-sized cartoon published in Harper’s Weekly, February 18, 1871.

“No variety of anti-European sentiment has ever approached the violent extremes to which anti-Chinese agitation went in the 1870’s and 1880’s. Despite laws and treaties promising federal protection, “lynchings, boycotts and mass expulsions still…

As illustrated by San Franciscan publication The Wasp, many Americans' anti-Chinese sentiment was rooted in the belief that Chinese labor posed a threat to the white American working class.