B.W. Kilburn - Wonders of Wonders, Yosemite, 1894

Maker: Benjamin West Kilburn (1827-1909)
Born: USA
Active: USA
Medium: albumen stereo card
Size: 3.5 x 7 in
Location: USA

Object No. 2008.044
Shelf: E-11-KILB

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Notes: #9287 Distributed by James M Davis, New York City.
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. A seventh-generation New Englander, he was an outdoorsman, fond of hunting and mountain climbing, and his choice of career—promoting the New England scenery through which he had tramped all his life—seems fitting. He and his younger brother Edward worked with their father in the family foundry and machine shop in Littleton, New Hampshire, until the early 1860s, when both took up photography. In 1865 the brothers established a stereophotograph publishing company in their hometown, with Benjamin taking the pictures and Edward meticulously developing them. Edward left the firm in 1875. Its successor, B. W. Kilburn & Co., produced an average of three thousand stereographs per day. In its forty-five year history, the company produced over 2,000 views of northern New Hampshire, pioneered the concept of door-to-door sales of pictures, and by 1890 was employing photographers to take views all over the world. Benjamin was also a legislator in the New Hampshire General Court.

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Taken on: August 16, 2020

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