Jesse Brown Cook (1860–1938) was a San Francisco police officer, chief and a police commissioner. He held a position of authority in the San Francisco police department's Chinatown Squad, policing the local ethnic neighborhood. He was appointed as the Chief of Police in 1906, and left the position in the 1930s. From 1895 to 1936, he worked on a personal project to document history in San Francisco, resulting in a catalog of 12,000 media items entitled the Jesse Cook Scrapbooks.
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