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

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Letter sheet. Print on paper: lithograph 27 x 21.2 cm., sheet. Call no. 48052:085, California letter sheets

Publisher: lithographed and published by Britton & Rey

Date: c. 1852-6 [issued before May 28, 1856]

Location: San Francisco

Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library, San Marino, California

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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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