Visual Culture in 19th Century San Francisco
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Visual Culture in 19th Century San Francisco

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The Jolly Old Miner.

Letter sheet. Print on paper: lithograph 20.5 x 26.8 cm., image on sheet 41 x 26.8 cm. California Lettersheet Collection, Kemble Spec Col 09

Publisher: lithographed and published by Britton & Rey

Date: c. 1851

Location: San Francisco

Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in 19th Century San Francisco traces the growth of the commodified image industry in San Francisco during the nineteenth century, incorporating mass-reproduced visual representations of people into a broader history and explaining the cultural roots of modern celebrity.

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