Plague Watch

In working on this project, I am indebted to the work of Marilyn Chase and James C. Mohr, whose books provide a narrative of plague’s arrival that was extremely helpful in shaping these words.

Chase, Marilyn. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. New York: Random House, 2003.

Mohr, James C. Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

The following is a list of secondary and primary sources used for the inspiration and content of each individual post.

Plague Strikes Hawaii

• Mohr, 29-40.

Christmas @ PlagueWatch

• IMG 0274 – Letter from Cooper to Sewell

Fire on the Streets of Honolulu

• IMG 287-88 – Letters from Sewell to Secretary of State Hay
• IMG 303 – Press Report – “Work of Citizens”
• Mohr, 59.

Plague Arrives in San Francisco

• Chase, 16-19.

Outrage: Media’s Failure

• Chase, 29-30.

Shocking: Code of Silence

• Chase, 54.

An Open Letter to Chinatown

• Chase, 67-75.

Kinyoun’s Tragedy

• Chase, 79-80.

PlagueCast – Episode One

• Chase, 91-107.

Political Unrest in San Francisco

• Chase, 107-23.

PlagueCast – Episode Two

• IMG 1404 – List of Plague Victims in San Francisco since Jan. 1^st, 1903.

PlagueCast and Goodbye

• Chase, 159-96.
• IMG 1453 – Letter from A.H. Glennan to Surgeon General Wyman

Note: If a post is not listed, it did not use any specific sources. Many of the sources read, but not quoted directly, are unlisted: reading the various letters, telegrams and other documents made available to us provided great inspiration if not direct reference.