Wells - Voices from the bottom of the South China Sea : the untold story of Americas largest Chinese emigrant disaster

Illustrations

Figure 1: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake destroyed the records

Figure 2: President Abraham Lincoln

Figure 3: Presentation of Anson Burlingame at the White House

Figure 4: The Route of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company (1868)

Figure 5: Launch of the Sea Steamer Great Republic

Figure 6: The American-shallow-draft steamer Kin- shan

Figure 7: The Colorado at Hong Kong after her 1867 maiden voyage

Figure 8: Samuel Clemens becoming Mark Twain 1867

Figure 9: Mark Twains possible view of the Pacific Mail docks

Figure 10: Saloon Plan of the Japan

Figure 11: Captain Edward R. Warsaw (April 1871)

Figure 12: Anna Weeks Warsaw (April 1871)

Figure 13: Miss Hattie L Warsaw (April 1871)

Figure 14: AMCONSUL Hong Kong Immigration Certificate

Figure 15: U.S. Immigration Certification to Prevent Coolie Trade

Figure 16: The Coming Man- Chinese passengers at sea

Figure 17: Distributing food rations for the days meal

Figure 18: The Colorado underway (1870)

Figure 19: A mid-day lunch enroute to California

Figure 20: Meeting of the Steamers in Mid-Ocean

Figure 21: The Farallon Islands (1870s)

Figure 22: Pacific Mail Steamship San Francisco arrival

Figure 23: Chinese Immigrants, Customs House, San Francisco

Figure 24 : Chinese immigration (1867-1876)

Figure 25: Chinese Population in California (1872)

Figure 26: President Ulysses S. Grant, (1869-1877)

Figure 27: Pitcher presented to Captain Warsaw

Figure 28: Pacific Mail Steamship Company steamer Japan

Figure 29: Sole surviving log of the Japan (May 1874)

Figure 30: A rare order for the Japan to proceed to sea (1871)

Figure 31: Dining saloon of the America; Japans sister ship

Figure 32: Representative Pacific Mail Officers in uniform

Figure 33: Sunday Service on Board a Pacific Mail Steamship

Figure 34: The burning of the America, Yokohama, ( August 1872)

Figure 35: Chinese emigrant making Joss offering (1871)

Figure 36: A representative home in Guangdong Province (1871)

Figure 37: A handsome girl of 16 will command a price

Figure 38: The Chinese emigrants were screened at Canton

Figure 39: The Japan in Hong Kong after maiden voyage (1868)

Figure 40: Pacific Mail Steamship Japan. (1870s)

Figure 41: Skeleton Map of Swatow revealing final wreck site (1875)

Figure 42: Map of Japan (1871)

Figure 43: An artists conception of the Japan fire. (Dec. 17, 1874)

Figure 44: Chinese Trading Junk (1873)

Figure 45: USS YANTIC, Courtesy U.S. Navy

Figure 46: USS SACO, Courtesy U.S. Navy

Figure 47: Secretary of State Hamilton Fish

Figure 48: Child getting hands burned by a Pacific Mail subsidy

Figure 49: Captain John Pratt Roberts (1867)

Figure 50: A deep water view from the 1874-1876 period

Figure 51: Salvage hooked up (1874-1876)

Figure 52: Picture of the 1874 U.S. Trade Dollar

Figure 53: Final Resting Place of S.S. Japan in South China Sea

Figure 54: Watch presented to Capt. Edward R. Warsaw

Figure 55: USS MONOCACY in the 1890s

Figure 56: A stern eagle