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

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Hutchings’ California Scenes: Methods of Mining.

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.

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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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