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Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1827 - 1909

Biographical History

B. W. Kilburn (1827-1909) was an American landscape, stereoscopic-view photographer and publisher.

Benjamin West Kilburn was born December 10, 1827 in Littleton, New Hampshire to Josiah and Emily Kilburn. He took photographs and stereo-views of landscapes at the end of the nineteenth century in the United States and Canada. He and his brother, Edward Kilburn, operated a studio in the McCoy Block in Littleton and by 1868 they moved to a larger building at the Chutter Block location on Main Street. After the Boston Fire of November 1872, a new factory was built on Cottage Street. Young salesmen carried Kilburn views onto the trains and south to a wider audience. They were for a time considered the most extensive manufacturer of stereoscopic views. Kilburn died January 15, 1909 in Littleton, New Hampshire.

Citation:
Wikipedia, via WWW, July 13, 2017 (birth and death dates and place; professional history; subject focus).

Ancestry, via WWW, July 13, 2017 (parents' names).

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Underwood and Underwood stereographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233632964]
Identifier: MSS 7689
Scope and Contents The collection includes 39 stereographs, 37 of which are from an edition of the Latter-Day Saints' Tour from Palmyra New York to Salt Lake City. The other two stereographs are of the interior of the Mormon Tabernacle (1904) and the Eagle Gate (1904) photographed by B.W. Kilburn. A photocopy of the pamphlet "The Latter-Day Saints' Tour: from Palmyra, New York to Salt Lake City, through the stereoscope" by Brigham H. Roberts. A photocopied copy of "Sterographs and Stereotypes: A 1904 View of...
Dates: 1903-1905
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Underwood and Underwood stereographs

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