Edward George Kilburn Photographs: List of Photos 1-19

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1 image 1 1/1 - obv: 'Honolulu'rev: - church, Honolulu Gothic twin-towered brick church, ?c1875 at end of street with balconies
2 image 2 2/1 - obv: 'Royal Palace Honolulu'rev: 'King's Palace Honolulu' palace, Honolulu palace, as seen today, but with much open ground around
3 image 3 3/1 - obv: 'Royal Palace Honolulu'rev: - palace, Honolulu palace, viewed from one end, with a parallel 2 st building not apparent in previous view
4 image 4 4/1 - obv: 'Honolulu'rev: - Honolulu river scene with boats & huts
5 image 5 5/1 - obv: 'Honolulu'rev: - Honolulu unsealed road or driveway in an avenue of palms
6 image 6 6/1 - obv: 'Honolulu'rev: - Honolulu 3 children posed under a traveller's palm / tree, adjoining a 2 st building
7 image 7 9/1 - obv: 'Honolulu'rev: 'Honolulu' commercial street in Honolulu view from above of a street of mainly 2 st commercial buildings, mountains in the background; on corners of transverse street, '1881 / Wilder & Co' and '[-] W. Mac[Far]lane [-]'
8 image 8 2/5 J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 161 Monroe St '72' obv: 'Chicago'rev: '?B Spaulding Chicago'

Albert G Spalding house, 4926 South Woodlawn, Kenwood, c 1885, dem 1903.
Info from Susan O'Connor

hallway with base of staircase, view to ?dining room, Aesthetic/Japonais taste
9 image 9 3/5 4001 (deleted) obv: 4002rev: 'Fleishman's Chicago Cadell Archt; Chicago, house triangular hall, lower part of staircase with Sullivanesque newel post, timber chimneypiece & grate set in tiles
10 image 10 4/5 '2204' obv: 'House Insurance Offices Chicago'rev: 'House Insurance Chicago W.L.B. Jenney'' Chicago: Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, by W L B Jenney 1892, dem 1931. Turak, William Le Baron Jenney, pp 237-263 Home Insurance: upper landing of public staircase with Sullivanesque / Art Nouveau metalwork & glazing at main entrance
11 image 11 5/5 '820' obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago Treat + Foltz ?Co' Chicago, house, possibly by Treat & Foltz. Could be one of (A) Charles B Fawell house, 120 East Pearson St, just west of Lake Shore Drive, 1882; (B) Charles Libby house, Michigan Ave; (C) George Armour house, Prairie Ave; (D) Martin Ryerson house, Drexel Ave [Randall, p 375. Witheys, pp 213-4, 605-6] heavily timbered stair hall with embossed paper
12 image 12 *6/5 '2494' obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago' Chicago, house hall with stair off, broad arches, timber panelled ceiling
13 image 13 *7/5 '1660' obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago' Chicago, house hall with stair at back, elaborate quasi-Moresque decoration, Sullivanesque fireplace in foreground
14 image 14 *8/5 '220' obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / S.S. Bemans' Chicago, house: ? by S S Beman. Probably one of (A) Jones/General Torrance / Rockefeller-McCormick house, Lake Shore Dr & Bellevue Pl, (B) Robert Todd Lincoln house, 1234 Lake Shore Dr (after his return from 4 years as US Minister to GB); (C) W W Kimball house, 1801 Prairie Ave, 1887 [ref Witheys, pp 49-50] hall with tiled floor, stair and cotton reel frieze in coarse Aesthetic Movt taste, bizarre gasalier
15 image 15 *9/5 '1027' obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Burling and Whitehouse' Chicago, house: ? by Burling & Whitehouse [?Nickerson house, 40 East Erie St, 1883; or Cudahy house, 23rd St & Michigan Ave, remodelled as a hotel] heavily timbered hall with stair, Frenchified chimneypiece, shiny striated paper in wall and panels of ceiling
16 image 16 *10/5 '2891' obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Cobb + Frost Archt' Chicago: by Cobb & Frost [but not the Potter Palmer mansion, ref Payne] fully timbered hall with stair in very advanced taste, horizontal wall and door panelling, rectangular chimneypiece with minimal ornament
17 image 17 *11/5 '2536 IWT'' [?JWT] obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago' Chicago hall with stair, papered walls, chimneypiece on turned supports
18 image 18 *14/5 '2059' obv: 'Rookery Bld Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Rookery Bldg / Chicago / Burnham + Root Arch' [plus Kilburn's stamp] Chicago: The Rookery, 209 South La Salle St, by Burnham & Root, 1885-6. the lobby, skylight, and staircase with fantastic electroliers on the newel posts
19 image 19 *15/5 '115' [twice] obv: 'Hall Mr Wills [sic] Residence Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / Mr Wills ?[sic] enter + Hall / ?Clay Ar' Chicago: M D Wells house, by Wheelock & Clay, c 1889 [Lewis & Morgan, p 133, ref Inland Architect and News Record, III (March 1889), p 23]. See also no 95. heavily papered hall with eclectic timber staircase