Daguerreotype, image: 13.5 x 18.8 cm (5 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.). Accession no. 2005.100.83, The Howard Gilman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
Creator/Contributor: Robert H. Vance
Date: 1856
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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