
Home! Thy Joys are passing Lovely
1855 · Albumen print, stereo
Each image: 7.6 × 7.6 cm (3 × 3 in.); Card: 8.2 × 17 cm (3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
Benjamin West Kilburn 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.
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