Letter sheet. Print on paper: lithograph 20.5 x 26.8 cm., image on sheet 41 x 26.8 cm. California Lettersheet Collection, Kemble Spec Col 09
Publisher: lithographed and published by Britton & Rey
Date: c. 1851
Location: San Francisco
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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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