Print on paper: lithograph 21.4 x 27.1 cm., image on sheet 42.9 x 27.1 cm. California Lettersheets from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material, BANC PIC 1963.002:38—B, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Creator/Contributor: W. C. K., artist
Publisher: Justh, Quirot & Co.
Date: 1851
Location: San Francisco
The print is captioned “Del. [drawn] after the nature by W. C. K.”
Image with DetailsConsuming 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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