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Kilburn, Benjamin West
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1827-1909
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Benjamin West Kilburn (December 10, 1827 – January 15, 1909) was an American photographer and stereoscopic view (stereograph) publisher famous for his landscape images and his visual record of the great migrations at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Littleton, New Hampshire
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Benjamin partnered with Edward Kilburn to form Kilburn Brothers, a photography studio, around 1867. The company became the world's most extensive manufacturer of stereographs.
Benjamin took sole control of the company around 1877. Sometime in the 1880's, Benjamin changed the name of the company to B.W. Kilburn & Company.
The business was succeeded by several of its former salesmen and competitors including: W. F. Burns & Co. of St. Louis in 1910; Underwood & Underwood brothers of New York; B. L. Singley of the Keystone View Company; and others.
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Created in 2019.