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The Illumination, Chicago Day, World's Columbian Exposition Wall Art
ART BY: Benjamin West Kilburn
The Illumination, Chicago Day, World's Columbian Exposition Wall Art
ART BY: Benjamin West Kilburn
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The Illumination, Chicago Day, World's Columbian Exposition is a photograph, albumen silver print, stereo by Benjamin West Kilburn (1827–1909), dated 1893. The artist is catalogued as American. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 1533 px (0.8 MB). Catalogued under Prints, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 20 works by Benjamin West Kilburn, an American artist.
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.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Benjamin West Kilburn →
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