A Glimpse of Americana
1872 SHEET MUSIC WITH TIPPED IN ALBUMEN IMAGE PUB BY GRAFTON TYLER BROWN AND BOOK
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Lot of two. Sheet music, 11 x 14, Mr. J.H. Milburns Musical Boquet “Don’t Judge A Man by the Coat That He Wears”. Scarce music having a tipped in albumen photograph (3 ¾ x 5 ¾, app. cabinet card size image). Photo by Bradley and Rulofson, S.F.
Of special note is the lithographer was G.T. Brown and Co. , San Francisco. Blindstamp store stamp b/r corner, Vertical wrinkle at top center extending to the top of the text, o/w fine condition
With this is a copy of “San Francisco Lithographer African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown, by Robert Chandler, First ed, Univesity of Oklahoma Press, HC w/DJ. As new (my copy, I can attest that it clean and bright).
Grafton Tyler Brown (February 22, 1841 – March 2, 1918) was an American painter, lithographer and cartographer. Brown was the first African-American artist to create works depicting the Pacific Northwest and California. Brown worked for a printer in Philadelphia when he was fourteen. It was there where he learned the skill of lithography, later in 1858 moved to San Francisco and worked as a hotel steward and porter. He worked as a lithographer before becoming known as a painter in the 1880s. In 1867 he opened his own firm creating advertisements, maps, and scrip for a range of clients throughout the 1870s. In 1882 and moved to Victoria, British Columbia. While there, he participated in the Amos Bowman Geological Survey. While participating in the survey, he served as draftsman and documented the Cascade Mountains. In 1884 he moved back to the United States and traveled throughout the northwest and west, painting such sites as Mount Rainier. He lived in Portland, Oregon, painting landscapes and also traveling to Yosemite and Yellowstone National Park to paint.
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