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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chase, Marilyn
The Barbary plague: the black death in Victorian San Francisco/Marilyn Chase.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-285-8
1. Plague—California—San Francisco—History—20th century.
I. Title.
RC176.C2 C48 2003 362.1′969232′0979461—dc21 2002068102
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