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

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[Solomon Yeakel, age 21].

1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.4 x 5 cm. Zelda Mackay Pictorial Collection, BANC PIC 1905.16242:021--CASE, California Cornerstones: Selected Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Creator/Contributor: Unidentified photographer

Date: c. 1850-1855

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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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