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

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The First Trial & Execution in S. Francisco on the Night of 10th of June at 2 O’clock.

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.”

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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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