Samuel Smith Kilburn
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) and Henry C. For many years Kilburn worked at 96 Washington Street in Boston (c.1852-1871); he lived in Newton, Massachusetts.
Samuel Smith Kilburn
S.S. Kilburn · Year-book of the Unitarian Congregational churches, 1868 · Public domain
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- United States
- Occupation
- engraver
- Teachers
- Abel Bowen
- Known for
- School days at Rugby
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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) and Henry C. For many years Kilburn worked at 96 Washington Street in Boston (c.1852-1871); he lived in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Examples of his work are in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
• Illustration — S.S. Kilburn, engraver, Washington St., Boston, ca.1865 • Illustration — Kilburn's Specimens of Designing and Engraving on Wood, ca.1865 • Illustration — Revere House, Boston, ca.1865 • Illustration — "Press-- Boston & Fairhaven Iron Co., Fairhaven, Mass.," ca.1865 • Illustration — Ad for Sweetser & Abbott, carpet dealers, Temple Place, Boston, 1868
Works by Kilburn
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
Works about Kilburn
• New England historical and genealogical register. 1904.
engraving by Kilburn, published in G.M. Baker's The Social Stage (Boston, 1871)
Kilburn · Baker, George Melville (= 1871) The social stage: original dramas, comedies, burlesques, and entertainments... [1], Boston: Lee Shepard
engraving by Kilburn, published in G.M. Baker's The Social Stage (Boston, 1871)
Kilburn · Baker, George Melville (= 1871) The social stage: original dramas, comedies, burlesques, and entertainments... [1], Boston: Lee Shepard
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Life and career
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1831
Samuel Smith Kilburn born.
1903
Samuel Smith Kilburn died.
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- 1.Boston Directory. 1852
- 2.American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 27665
- 3.New England historical and genealogical register. 1904.
- 4.Boston Directory. 1852
- 5.Directory of the town of Newton. 1871
- 6.Boston Athenaeum.
- 7.MFA Boston.
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q7412670: Samuel Smith KilburnWikimedia Foundation
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