Letter sheet. Lithograph: 27 x 20.5 cm. Call no. 48052:022, UDID 48689, Rare Books Department
Publisher: lithographed and published by Britton & Rey
Date: c. 1852-9
Location: San Francisco
Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
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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