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HomeContents > People > Photographers > William Edward Kilburn

Names:
Other: W.E. Kilburn 
Other: William Kilburn 
Dates:  1818, 28 November - 1891, 11 December
Born:  England, London
Died:  England, Isle of Wight, Whitwell
Active:  UK
 
  
Daguerreotypist in London who took two images of the Chartist meeting on Kennington Common in London in 1848 which are part of the Royal Photographic Collection at Windsor (UK). He also took portraits of the British Royal family (1846-1852) 
  
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*[William Edward Kilburn] Listed 52-64; made many fine stereo daguerreotypes, especially portraits, often finely tinted, in special viewing case. 
  
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the World (Non-USA), (National Stereoscopic Association)
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others.
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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

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• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.459 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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