J. M. Williamson M.D. Board of Health Photograph Album of Chinatown, San Francisco
1903
San Francisco (Calif.). Dept. of Public Health
SFP 83
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
mixed material
1 photograph album
graphic
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The photograph album of 178 albumen photographic prints documents the campaign of Dr. Rupert Blue, the assistant surgeon of the U. S. Marine Hospital Service in San Francisco, to cleanse Chinatown in 1903 of the third great pandemic of bubonic plague outbreak. Photographs document the facades of buildings on streets Dupont, Jackson, Sacramento, Stockton, Pacific, Clay and Sullivan’s Alley in Chinatown. The cleanse campaign began with the demolition work in March 1903 with a gang of deputized men with axes. Between March and October, 1903, 160 buildings in Chinatown were destroyed and are documented in the album. Of note are business signs in Chinese characters. Includes street views and alleyways of Chinatown.
Gift from Guenter B. Risse (2012).
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c88d03xg/
Photographs
Albumen prints
Photograph albums
Photographs--San Francisco (Calif.) Plague--San Francisco--California Architecture--San Francisco--California Public health--San Francisco--California
San Francisco (Calif.) Dept. of Public Health
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:209572
