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

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Assassination of James King of W[illia]m by James P. Casey, San Francisco [California] May 14th, 1856.

Print on paper: lithograph, plate size: 42 x 39 cm, image size: 28 x 25 cm., WA Prints 379, Object ID 2016435, Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Publisher: Britton & Rey

Date: 1856

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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