# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-w-kilburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:28:28.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-w-kilburn"
name: "Benjamin W. Kilburn"
slug: "benjamin-w-kilburn"
description: "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. A patent was granted for his gun-style camera."
tagline: "American photographer (1827-1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_W._Kilburn_portrait.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1827-12-10"
deathDate: "1909-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.804644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "بنجامين دبليو. كيلبيرن"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "بنجامين دبليو. كيلبيرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_West_Kilburn"
    title: "Benjamin West Kilburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_W._Kilburn"
    title: "Benjamin W. Kilburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_W._Kilburn"
    title: "Benjamin W. Kilburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4889343"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump