1 photograph: half plate daguerreotype ; visible image 8.2 x 11.2 cm, in case 12.3 x 15.2 cm., Print Room, Cased Photograph File (PR12), PR-012-2-828.1, New-York Historical Society, http://www.nyhistory.org.
Creator/Contributor: J. M. Ford
Date: 1855
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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