1 photograph: daguerreotype, quarter plate, visible image 2 7/8 in. x 3 7/8, DAG-0102b--DIG, cased photograph. Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California.
Creator/Contributor: Attributed to Joseph B. Starkweather
Date: c. 1852
Image with DetailsConsuming 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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