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

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

1 photograph: ambrotype; ninth plate, visible image 4.7 x 3.5 cm. Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 6.2 x 7.5 cm. Pad: green velvet with embossed motif. Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, Cased photograph miscellany, BANC PIC 19xx.177:002—CASE, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Creator/Contributor: Unidentified photographer

Date: c. 1858

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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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