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Attractive photo of city street in winter with deep snowbank. Two horse-drawn sleighs, one with a couple the other with cargo, and group of people. Kids in fur hats.
Titled:
4679. Laboring under difficulties, Quebec
On back:
Photographed and Published by B. W. KILBURN Littleton N.H.
Light crease in corners.
8.50 x 17.50 cm
In 1865 in the small northern New Hampshire town of Littleton, Edward and Benjamin West Kilburn founded the Kilburn Brothers Stereoscopic View Company. Stereoscopic photography is the process whereby mounted pairs of slightly different photographs give the illusion of three dimensionality when viewed through a stereoscope. Stereography had been introduced to America over ten years before the Kilburns began publishing views, but it became an especially popular form of parlor entertainment in the decade following the Civil War.
Particularly noted for their stereographs of the White Mountains, the Kilburn Company also published quantities of views of national and international subjects. While most pioneer stereograph publishers had withdrawn from the business by the 1880's, the Kilburn Company lasted until 1910. In its last decade of operation, the Kilburn firm expanded its catalogue to include over 17,000 different views, and reached its peak annual production of over five million stereographs.
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