Samuel Smith Kilburn
Samuel Smith Kilburn (1831—1903) was an engraver in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th-century. He trained with Abel Bowen. Kilburn's work appeared in popular periodicals such as Gleason's Pictorial. His business partners included Richard P. Mallory (Kilburn & Mallory)[1][2] and Henry C. Cross.[3] For many years Kilburn worked at 96 Washington Street in Boston (c.1852-1871);[4] he lived in Newton, Massachusetts.[5] Examples of his work are in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum[6] and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.[7]
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Image gallery
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S.S. Kilburn, engraver, Washington St., Boston, ca.1865
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Kilburn's Specimens of Designing and Engraving on Wood, ca.1865
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Revere House, Boston, ca.1865
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"Press-- Boston & Fairhaven Iron Co., Fairhaven, Mass.," ca.1865
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Ad for Sweetser & Abbott, carpet dealers, Temple Place, Boston, 1868
Further reading
Works by Kilburn
- S.S. Kilburn. Specimens of designing and engraving on wood. Boston: ca.1865-1867.
- Works with engraving by Kilburn
- My teacher's gem. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1863
- Oliver Optic's Magazine
- Our Young Folks
Works about Kilburn
References
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- Works by Samuel Smith Kilburn at Project Gutenberg
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- Not Against Type, blog by Larry Thompson. Image of Thompson's 2009 impression of Kilburn's change of address woodblock. Nov. 25, 2009.
- New York Public Library. Items related to Kilburn.
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- ↑ Boston Directory. 1852
- ↑ American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 27665
- ↑ New England historical and genealogical register. 1904.
- ↑ Boston Directory. 1852
- ↑ Directory of the town of Newton. 1871
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