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Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Stereographs
Photographs
Date:
1893
Scope and Contents note:
Stereoview of a Smithsonian Institution display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893). which showed a Plains man (possibly Lakota) on horseback wearing regalia and carrying shield and spear.
Biographical/Historical note:
Benjamin West Kilburn (1827-1909) was a photographer and stereograph publisher. Circa 1865, he established Kilburn Brothers with his brother Edward Kilburn. Edward retired from the partnership around 1877, though Benjamin West continued to publish under the Kilburn Brothers name until the late 1880s. Then, he operated under the name B.W. Kilburn & Company, at which time he acquired exclusive rights to sell stereoscopic views of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2000-14
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional Kilburn photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 90-1 and in the National Museum of American History Archives Center in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
Additional photographs of the World's Columbian Exposition held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4, Photo Lot 97, and MS 4792.
Records relating to the Smithsonian Exhibits at the Columbian Exposition held in the National Museum of American History Archives Center in SIA RU000070.
The Archives of American Art holds printed material on the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Photo Lot 2000-14, Benjamin West Kilburn photograph of Native American model at World's Columbian Exposition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
