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

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The Winter of 1852 & [185]3

Print on paper: lithograph. 21.2 x 26.6 cm., image on sheet 42.4 x 26.6 cm. California Pictorial Lettersheets from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material, BANC PIC 1963.002:0182—B, BANC

Publisher: lithographed and published by Britton & Rey

Date: [not before 1853]

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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