Benjamin W. Kilburn
Benjamin West Kilburn | |
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Kilburn c. 1897 | |
| Born | December 10, 1827 |
| Died | January 15, 1909 (aged 81) |
| Resting place | Glenwood Cemetery, Littleton, NH |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Known for | "Old Man of the Mountain" (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. Kilburn was a legislator in the New Hampshire General Court. A patent was granted for his gun-style camera.