I'm looking for some good books on the history of San Francisco's Chinatown and Chinese in SF in general.

-- Sigve R. Leland (sigverl@online.no), March 19, 2003

Answers

Laverne Mau Dicker, curator of Photographs for the California Historical Society in San Francisco has collected a pictorial history entitled The Chinese in San Francisco"

The book is a glorious collection with sound comments accompanying the photographs. When it was new it sold for $6.00 and was published by Dover Publications in New York

Good luck in your research.

-- Kurt Iversen (iversenk@aol.com), March 19, 2003.

Don't forget to read up on Donaldina Cameron!

http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/attractions/cameronhouse.html

If you're in the city, you should look through Staceys Books' local history section. The SF Public Library is good, check out the Chinatown branch.

-- Rosa (rosadebon@yahoo.com), March 19, 2003.