[young gold rush widow, the mother of Mrs. Nellie Mayhood, of Oakland, wearing a hat with a veil and mourning clothes, holding a daguerreotype].

About the Book

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.