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

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grave of Robert Barnard of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

1 photograph: half plate daguerreotype ; visible image 8.2 x 11.2 cm, in case 12.3 x 15.2 cm., Print Room, Cased Photograph File (PR12), PR-012-2-828.1, New-York Historical Society, http://www.nyhistory.org.

Creator/Contributor: J. M. Ford

Date: 1855

Location: San Francisco

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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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