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

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Travail en Californie [Work in California].

Lithograph. RB 183903

Creator/Contributor: L. Scherer

Date: c. 1850s.

Location: Paris

Contributing Institution: Rare Books Department, 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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