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

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“The Field Party of 1864,”

in William H. Brewer, Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1864 to 1903, ed. Francis P. Farquhar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974; reprint, California Library). From left to right: James T. Gardner, Richard Cotter, William Henry Brewer, Clarence King.

Creator/Contributor: Unidentified photographer

Date: 1864

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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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