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

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

1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 7.8 x 6 cm., half length portrait of a man seated with one arm resting on a table, transferred from the Jeremiah Burke Sanderson papers (BANC MSS 75/70 c), BANC PIC 1975.049:001—CASE, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Creator/Contributor: Unidentified photographer

Date: c. 1860-1865

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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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