Lithograph. RB 183903
Creator/Contributor: L. Scherer
Date: c. 1850s.
Location: Paris
Contributing Institution: Rare Books Department, 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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