The Equal of Persons Gibson and Loomis

The Equal of Persons Gibson and Loomis

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 State of California, a legislative body that held hearings on the social, moral and political effect of Chinese immigration (West 128: Internet Archive).

George Frederick Keller

The Wasp

1877

English