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

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Clara Churchill Jones Crittenden (1820-81) and children

Half-plate daguerreotype. D.6.3, Crittenden family papers, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.

Date: c. 1850

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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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