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Chapter Four

Photographs and the Visual Culture Identity

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[post-mortem portrait of Eloise Channing Cook].

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[seven members of the Duchow family of Salem, MA, including Captain Johann Carl Duchow (1793-1857) and—standing in center—eldest son John Charles Duchow (1830-1901), along with two infants].

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[young man and woman, ancestors of Mrs. C.F. Greene of Santa Clara].

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[George Henry Eggers and wife, Sophia Ehrenpfort].

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presentation inscription to his wife, dated November 2, 1859, with later inscription [1890] noting gift to son James L. de Fremery.

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Charles Penniman Daniell daguerreotype portrait [with Boehm-system or “Irish” flute].

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To the Babies of San Francisco.

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[three-quarter length portrait of a baby sitting next to a partially visible woman].

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[photograph of a baby].

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[ambrotype in a case, of a boy and a woman].

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[unidentified man and baby girl].

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[Mrs. John J. Murphy and daughter Catherine, of San Francisco].

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[ambrotype in a half case, of a girl and a woman].

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[a young girl seated on a chair, holding up her skirt].

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[a baby in a carriage].

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[a young boy with a rocking horse].

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[African-American Civil War soldier in Union uniform].

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[young gold rush widow, the mother of Mrs. Nellie Mayhood, of Oakland, wearing a hat with a veil and mourning clothes, holding a daguerreotype].

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William Daniell standing beside his brother Charles Penniman Daniell’s grave in California

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grave of Robert Barnard of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

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[Cemetery]

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Mission Dolores Cemetery

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Churchill Crittenden (1840-1864)

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Clara Churchill Jones Crittenden (1820-81) and children

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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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