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Heading: (California - Purissima, San Mateo County) Author: Brown, Grafton T. Title: Town of Purissima, San Mateo Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:Moore and De Pue Date Published: 1878 Description: Hand-colored lithograph (the coloring is later). Image: 31.3x66.3 cm (12¼x26”); sheet: 35.6x75.2 cm (14x29½”), hinged to mat.Double-page print from the Illustrated History of San Mateo County, of the now ghost town of Purissima in San Mateo Country in its prime. G.T. Brown was the first Black lithographer in California. After seven months of production, Moore and DePue praised the ”skill and artistic finish” of the plates included in their Illustrated History of San Mateo County, and through the Redwood City newspaper on November 30, 1878, declared that ”we are now delivering [them] to our subscribers.” For those with second thoughts, the publishers offered, ”a limited number can be purchased of our delivering agents while on their route. Price ten dollars.” Today, this county history is in great demand. Robert J. Chandler, San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown (2014), pages 146-148.