Drawn by C[harles Christian] Nahl. Engraved by Anthony & Baker. Print on paper: engraving. 12.2 x 20.2 cm., image on sheet 26.8 x 41.5 cm. Chinese in California Collection, BANC.PIC 1963.002:0118—B
Publisher: Wide West Office
Date: c. 1856
Location: San Francisco
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
A variant of book fig. 1.7
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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