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The Barbary plague : the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco / Marilyn Chase.
LIBRA RC176.C2 C48 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chase, Marilyn, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plague--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.
- Plague.
- Kinyoun, Joseph J. (Joseph James), 1860-1919.
- Kinyoun, Joseph J.
- Blue, Rupert Lee, 1868-1948.
- Blue, Rupert Lee.
- Disease Outbeaks--history.
- History.
- San Francisco.
- Plague--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- California--San Francisco.
- Medical Subjects:
- Disease Outbeaks--history.
- San Francisco.
- Plague--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2003]
- Summary:
- The "Australia" sailed into the port of San Francisco on the day after New Years, 1900. The steamer passed an inspection, but carried infected rats carrying bubonic plague. With stunning narrative immediacy, fortified by rich research, "The Barbary Plague" chronicles a city under siege during the end of the gilded age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375504966
- OCLC:
- 50143626
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