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
Image with DetailConsuming 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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