Carte de visite. Chinese-Americans Collection 1, C.3.34, Photographs-Cartes de Visite, Misc. subjects A-Cl, Photographs Collection, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
Creator/Contributor: Lai Yong
Date: c. 1870
Location: San Francisco
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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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