Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Catalog
Author: Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of Western AmericanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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... History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. 1890
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Classed Subject Catalog
Author: Engineering Societies LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Universal decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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West American History
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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San Francisco Lithographer
Author: Robert J. ChandlerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145250
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler’s contextualization of Brown’s career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown’s work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown’s work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler’s checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown’s ephemera—including billheads and maps—as uniquely valuable as Chandler’s contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.
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