#1918pandemic

The featured Book of the Week is great for anyone wanting to get some perspective on current events through the lens of history; specifically, through our collection of historic California periodicals. Gain some hindsight from the pages of the 1918 issues of The San Francisco Newsletter, when California was also grappling with the first wave of a global pandemic. While circumstances were obviously different at the time, many of the same issues- from mask-wearing opposition and contempt for restrictions, to sweeping economic insecurity. The California History Room is currently closed to patrons while we work out the details of our re-opening, but in the meantime you can access some of our digitized materials (including our issues of The San Francisco Newsletter) on the Internet Archive from home!  https://archive.org/details/sfnewsletter95unse/page/n5/mode/2up