Senator John D. Works, 1911

A formal oval portrait, printed in sepia halftone, presents John D. Works—newly elected Republican U.S. Senator from California—in a dark frock coat and necktie, facing three-quarters left. The caption reads plainly: *NEWLY ELECTED UNITED STATES SENATOR WORKS. (See page 4.)* Decorative Art Nouveau flourishes frame the corners. Unlike the magazine's frequent chromolithograph caricatures, this cover is straightforward honorific portraiture, signaling Works's arrival in national politics. A Superior Court judge turned Senator, Works was a conservative voice on immigration restriction—positions *The Wasp*'s largely nativist readership would have welcomed, given the publication's long record of virulent anti-Chinese cartoon attacks on California's immigrant communities throughout the 1870s–1900s.