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

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Lola Montez.

Whole plate daguerreotype. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of I.N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937 (37.14.41).

Creator/Contributor: Southworth and Hawes, photographer(s)

Date: [1852]

Location: Boston

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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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