Kilburn Brothers
| Benjamin West Kilburn | |
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Kilburn c. 1897
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| Born |
December 10, 1827 Littleton, New Hampshire |
| Died | January 15, 1909 (aged 81) Littleton, New Hampshire |
| Resting place | Littleton, NH Cemetery |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Known for |
(stereo-photograph of Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch, White Mountains, New Hampshire) |
Benjamin West Kilburn (December 10, 1827 – January 15, 1909) was an American photographer and stereoscopic view publisher famous for his landscape images of the nascent American and Canadian state, provincial, and national parks and his visual record of the great migrations at the end of the nineteenth century. Visual historian of immigration and international tourism.
He was a legislator in the New Hampshire General Court. A patent was granted for his Gun-style_camera.
The son of Josiah Kilburn, an iron founder who manufactured Franconia stoves, Benjamin received his education as a machinist in Fall River, Massachusetts, at age 16. After four years, Benjamin returned to Littleton, New Hampshire, to become a partner with his father in the Josiah Kilburn & Son foundry.
Kilburn was a sergeant in Company D, 13th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and participated with his unit in the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
A mountaineer, Kilburn was active on Mount Washington in New Hampshire; in Ouray, Colorado; and in the Sierra Nevada of California, including Yosemite in 1872.
Kilburn Brothers stereoviews date from about 1865. Published sources attribute their stereographs (stereo-photographs) before 1876 solely to Benjamin. His brother, Edward Kilburn (February 27, 1830 - 1884), however, learned the art of photography from a local daguerreotypist, Ora C. Bolton, from neighboring Waterford, Vermont at an earlier date.
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