Samuel Smith Kilburn (18311903) was an
engraver in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, 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) and Henry C. Cross. For many years Kilburn worked at 96
Washington Street in Boston (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.
Image gallery
Image:Logo Specimen of Designing bySSKilburn ca1865.png, S.S. Kilburn, engraver, Washington St., Boston, ca.1865
Image:Specimen of Designing title page bySSKilburn ca1865.png, Kilburn's ''Specimens of Designing and Engraving on Wood'', ca.1865
Image:RevereHouse Specimen of Designing bySSKilburn ca1865.png, Revere House, Boston, ca.1865
Image:Press Specimen of Designing bySSKilburn ca1865.png, "Press-- Boston & Fairhaven Iron Co., Fairhaven, Mass.," ca.1865
Image:1868 Sweetser Abbott TemplePlace.png, 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
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Lee & Shepard (1862-1905) was a publishing and bookselling firm in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century, established by William Lee (1826–1906) and Charles Augustus Billings Shepard (1829–1889) Authors published by the firm i ...
, 1863
*
Oliver Optic
William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was an academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Early life and education
Adams was born in Medway, Massachusetts, on July 3 ...
's Magazine
* Our Young Folks
Works about Kilburn
New England historical and genealogical register 1904.
References
External links
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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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American engravers
1831 births
1903 deaths
19th century in Boston
Artists from Boston