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

3.12

Figure

[photograph of a seated Chinese man]

Carte-de-visite, approx. 9.0 x 5.7 cm. on mount 10.7 x 6.5 cm. William Shew folder, Image ID Number 2015047, WA Photos 357, Carl Mautz collection of cartes-de-visite photographs created by California photographers, ca. 1855-1895, Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Creator/Contributor: William Shew

Date: c. 1866

Location: San Francisco

Handwritten on verso: “Luan Yuen [?].” Printed on verso: 421 Montgomery St.; “N.B. [nota bene] Duplicates of this can be obtained by sending name and number, and an order from the party for whom it was taken.”

Image with Details

BAck to Chapter Three
BackNext

About the Book

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.

LEarn More