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John Ross Browne BIOGRAPHY
1821 Beggarsbush, Dublin, Ireland - 1875 Oakland, California. Known for: Travel book illustration, frontier painting.
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A peripatetic illustrator for the United States government, John Ross Browne also illustrated and wrote his own travel books. Combining personal and official travel experiences during the 1840s, 50s... Read full biography
A peripatetic illustrator for the United States government, John Ross Browne also illustrated and wrote his own travel books. Combining personal and official travel experiences during the 1840s, 50s and 60s, Browne recorded adventures in gold-mining California, Apache country in Arizona, sailing... Read full biography
A peripatetic illustrator for the United States government, John Ross Browne also illustrated and wrote his own travel books. Combining personal and official travel experiences during the 1840s, 50s and 60s, Browne recorded adventures in gold-mining California, Apache country in Arizona, sailing around Cape Horn in South America, writing reports in Texas and New Orleans, sightseeing in the Middle East and Europe and serving his government in China. Many of his writings with sketches were... Read full biography
A peripatetic illustrator for the United States government, John Ross Browne also illustrated and wrote his own travel books. Combining personal and official travel experiences during the 1840s, 50s and 60s, Browne recorded adventures in gold-mining California, Apache country in Arizona, sailing around Cape Horn in South America, writing reports in Texas and New Orleans, sightseeing in the Middle East and Europe and serving his government in China. Many of his writings with sketches were published in Harper's Magazine. John Browne was born in Dublin, Ireland, and immigrated with his parents to Louisville, Kentucky in 1832. He studied shorthand, and then worked in Washington DC for the United States Senate as a reporter from 1841 to 1842.... Read full biography
A peripatetic illustrator for the United States government, John Ross Browne also illustrated and wrote his own travel books. Combining personal and official travel experiences during the 1840s, 50s and 60s, Browne recorded adventures in gold-mining California, Apache country in Arizona, sailing around Cape Horn in South America, writing reports in Texas and New Orleans, sightseeing in the Middle East and Europe and serving his government in China. Many of his writings with sketches were published in Harper's Magazine. John Browne was born in Dublin, Ireland, and immigrated with his parents to Louisville, Kentucky in 1832. He studied shorthand, and then worked in Washington DC for the United States Senate as a reporter from 1841 to 1842. In 1849, he went to San Francisco as an agent for the United States Treasury Department to deal wit... Read full biography
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A peripatetic illustrator for the United States government, John Ross Browne also illustrated and wrote his own travel books. Combining personal and official travel experiences during the 1840s, 50s and 60s, Browne recorded adventures in gold-mining California, Apache country in Arizona, sailing around Cape Horn in South America, writing reports in Texas and New Orleans, sightseeing in the Middle East and Europe and serving his government in China. Many of his writings with sketches were published in Harper's Magazine.
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