Drawn by Charles Christian Nahl. Engraved by T. C. Boyd. Letter sheet. Print on tinted paper: engraving 27.5 x 21.4 cm. California Pictorial Lettersheets from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material, BANC PIC 1963.002:0054—A
Publisher: J[ames] M. Hutchings
Date: 1855
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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