Artist: C. B. Gifford - A.L. Bancroft & Co.
I was surfing and a mention was made of this lithograph in a book "Views and viewmakers of urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work, 1825-1925", by John William Reps. It's San Jose in 1875. The book was explaining the process of lithography and in using this lithograph of San Jose as an example that the color grey is seen as green by the eye.
Source of picture & book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_jose_california_1875.jpg
http://books.google.com/books?id=3mI1wvk_o3cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Views+and+viewmakers+of+urban+America:&hl=en&ei=VnG-TNa6CY6isAO54tziDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Kelmscott Press trademark with samples of the three type styles Morris is known for. If you look closer at the photo, you will see the beautiful letterpress indents and watermark. Gorgeous!
Currier and Ives lithograph, 1874
"Printmakers to the People" was their motto. The firm of Currier and Ives described themselves as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Prints." I found it interesting that the textbook sometimes focuses on the unusual or expensive. Sometimes the popular represents more people than the expensive. This company was barely mentioned (one line on page 157 that they went bankrupt.) They did not do the illustrations themselves but had others do them (that was a new fact I learned.) Nevertheless, their images caught the everyday scenes of life. The Rockwell of their day. Read their history to learn more.
http://www.philaprintshop.com/currhist.html
Arts and Crafts Movement, Luc Devroye, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Different tidbits of people today being inspired from the Arts and Crafts era and some history.
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/artscrafts.html
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