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A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A First-Hand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
This new book, by Dorothy Fowler and by the California Genealogical Society, offers insight into the daily lives of regular people as they made do and moved on after the 1906 disaster. Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.
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Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Disasters
The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
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America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
A book by Alfred W. Crosby.
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Armies of Pestilence : The Effects of Pandemics on History
A book by R. S.Bray.
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Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston
A book by Stephanie Schorow.
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Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
A book by J. H. Powell.
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
A book by Nat Brandt.
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A book by Bill Minutaglio .
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Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
A book by Dan Kurzman.
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Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence
A book by George C. Kohn (hardback).
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
A book by William Lutz.
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A book by Patricia Bellis Bixel.
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Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes That Shaped a City
A book by David Cowan.
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Man and Microbes : Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times
A book by Arno Karlen.
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New Jersey Hot Zones! : Viruses, Diseases, & Epidemics in Our State's History
A book by Carole Marsh.
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A book by William H. McNeill.
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Poisons of the Past : Molds, Epidemics, and History
A book by Mary Kilbourne Matossian.
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
A book by Elizabeth A. Fenn.
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and how it Changed America
A book by John M. Barry.
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Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
A book by Edward T. O'Donnell.
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Sudden Sea : The Great Hurricane of 1938
A book by R.A. Scotti.
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
A book by Marilyn Chase.
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The Cholera Years : The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
A book by Charles E. Rosenberg.
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A book by Ross Miller.
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The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
A book by Richard F. Bales.
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A book by David McCullough.
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The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
A book by Khaled J. Bloom.
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A book by Leon Stein.
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The Wordsworth Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence
A book by George C. Kohn.
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Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
A book by Anthony P. Hatch.
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
A book by David Von Drehle.
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A book by Michael B. A. Oldstone.
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Raking the Ashes: Genealogical Strategies for Pre-1906 San Francisco Research
Book by Nancy Peterson and published by the California Genealogical Society, addresses difficulties encountered by researchers seeking early San Francisco city & county records. It tells where to find extant original pre-1906 records, describes the losses & points the way to alternative sources.
