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

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Page 7. Houseworth’s Illustrated Catalogue of Celebrities

1 photographic copy print, b&w, 16.5 x 11.2 cm. Image ID Number 1078686, Uncat WA MSS 429, Box 92, Peter E. Palmquist Collection, Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Creator/Contributor: Thomas Houseworth

Date: 1874

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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