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

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Portsmouth Square.

No. 177 [handwritten in lower left, date is handwritten in lower center], album 114, San Francisco, box 1, folder 3 (42-61), Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Creator/Contributor: Unidentified photographer

Date: c. 1867

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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