Details
Creator Kilburn Brothers.
Title Almost there. -- Lizzie Bourn's [sic] monument [graphic] / Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H.
Publisher Littleton, N.H.: Kilburn Brothers
Date [ca. 1874]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of a monument adjacent to the Mount Washington Cog Railway. The monument, constructed of rocks and a marker, memorializes Lizzie Bourne, a 23 year-old hiker, who died September 14, 1853 while attempting to ascend Mount Washington. The railway organized and directed by Sylvester Marsh was completed in 1869. Shows a man sitting on the tracks directly opposite the monument.
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on verso.
Negative number printed on mount: No. 112.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Subject Bourne, Lizzie, 1830-1853 -- Monuments.
Mount Washington Railway.
Monuments & memorials -- New Hampshire -- Bretton Woods.
Mountain railroads -- New Hampshire -- Bretton Woods.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Marsh, Sylvester, 1803-1884, sponsor.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.63a]
Accession number 5739.F.63a