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ID: 500037161
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500037161

 

Record Type: Person
Kilburn, Benjamin West (American photographer, 1827-1909)

Note: Born 10 December 1827; died 15 January 1909. Kilburn took up photography in 1855. In 1865 B.W. Kilburn formed a partnership with his brother Edward (1830-1884) called "Kilburn Brothers" in Littleton, New Hampshire, with B.W. Kilburn as the active photographer. When Edward retired from the business in 1877, Benjamin West ran the studio until his death in 1909. By the 1890s, the firm had accumulated almost 75 000 negatives almost all of which were printed by Benjamin West himself.

Names:
Kilburn, Benjamin West (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Benjamin West Kilburn (V,display)
Kilburn, B. W. (V)
Kilburn, Benjamin (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
photographer (preferred)

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Littleton (Grafton county, New Hampshire, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Littleton (Grafton county, New Hampshire, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1855-1909

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
partner in ....  Kilburn Brothers  from 1865 to 1909
..................  (American and Canadian photography studio and publisher, 1865-1909) [500033342]
sibling of ....  Kilburn, Edward  
..................  (American photographer, 1830-1884) [500119163]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Kilburn, Benjamin West (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer, 1827-1909) ..... [CCA Preferred]
(American photographer, 1827-1909) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Benjamin West Kilburn ........ [CCA]
...........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Kilburn, Benjamin ........ [CCA]
....................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Kilburn, Benjamin West ........ [CCA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
.............................................  Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
.............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 408769
Kilburn, B. W. ........ [CCA]
.............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........ [CCA, Gallery Systems, RKD]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Darrah, The World of Stereographs (1977) 45
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n93054427
....................  Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n93054427
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 408769
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q4889343
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Darrah, The World of Stereographs (1977)
.......... Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
.......... Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
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