C1870

Full Moon.

Artist:

Benjamin West Kilburn (1827 - 1909)

$A 55

Stereo albumen paper photograph of the moon by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N. H. “This negative was made with a large telescope. One half of the negative was taken one month and the other the following month. in this way Stereoscopic … Read Full Description

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S/N: CDV-FM-2630–233978

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Full Title:

Full Moon.

Date:

C1870

Artist:

Benjamin West Kilburn (1827 - 1909)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Stereo albumen paper photograph laid onto card

Image Size:

153mm

x 77mm

Paper Size:

177mm

x 88mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1870

Description:

Stereo albumen paper photograph of the moon by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N. H.

“This negative was made with a large telescope. One half of the negative was taken one month and the other the following month. in this way Stereoscopic effect is produced.”

Collections:
History of Science Museum, UK; 13516

Benjamin West Kilburn (1827 - 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.

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