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

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Two Roads in California.

1 lithograph: uncolored; 26.8 x 20.5 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.) overall. HL 48052:104, Digital ID 48755, Prints and Ephemera

Publisher: lithographed and published by Britton & Rey

Date: c. 1852-9

Location: San Francisco

Contributing Institution: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California

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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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