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

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Constitution and address of the Vigilance Committee: Fort Vigilant/Mass meeting.

Print on paper: lithograph 26.7 x 21 cm., image on sheet 26.7 x 42 cm. Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material, California pictoral lettersheets, BANC PIC 1963.002:0040--B, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Creator/Contributor: Robert H. Vance, photographer

Publisher: Britton & Rey

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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