Consuming Identities examines visual culture and celebrity in nineteenth-century San Francisco. Photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in that society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed public values and perceptions, Amy Lippert is a Professor of American History at the University of Chicago.
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Consuming Identities examines visual culture and celebrity in nineteenth-century San Francisco. Photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in that society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed public values and perceptions, Amy Lippert is a Professor of American History at the University of Chicago.
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