Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Creator/Contributor: Unidentified photographer
Date: c. 1848-9
Location: Boston
My thanks to musician Damian DeFalco for his assistance in the proper identification of the instrument.
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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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