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Atlantic Consolidated Mining Company stock: lithograph by G. T. Brown

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Atlantic Consolidated Mining Company stock: lithograph by G. T. Brown
Number 431 for 100 shares to David Wilder, Trustee, on February 24, 1879. Signed by Wilder as secretary and James Green as vice president. Lithograph by G. T. Brown Company of San Francisco. PASS-CO grade of VF. Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) was born of free parentage in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In all likelihood, he had the distinction of being the first professional African-American artist to venture into Nevada. In the 1860s, Brown created numerous hand-drawn black and white lithographs of communities and buildings around northern Nevada, notably in the celebrated Comstock mining district. An advertisement in the 1864-1865 Virginia Business Directory read, "Grafton T. Brown. Traveling Artist in Nevada Territory," and promoted his specialization in "Views of Mills, Mines, Business Houses, Residences, etc." Further, he guaranteed that his mining certificates would be "executed with Neatness and Dispatch." An artist with no little or formal training, Brown arrived in San Francisco, California in 1861, and was initially employed as a draftsman, then a lithographer, for Kuchel and Dressel, a commercial printing firm that served, among others, mining companies, banks and music publishing companies. He opened his own company in 1867, and operated it until 1879. -[Nevada Online Encyclopedia]

Date: 1879City: Devil's GateCounty: StoreyState: NV