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

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To the Babies of San Francisco.

1 broadside, 26 x 18 cm, xF869.S3.4 S48, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Creator/Contributor: Shew’s Daguerrean Gallery

Date: between Oct. 1855 and 1861

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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