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.		K no	photo details	inscriptions	identification & refs	content
60		17/11	'4119 Hotel del Coronado - White and Gold Drawing Room - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'	obv: 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]	San Diego, California: Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, by Reid & Reid (mainly James W Reid), 1887-8 [Smith (3), pp 148-9] Credited with introducing the steel frame to the West Coast [Barrett, ref Architect and Engineer of California, November 1910, p 37]	Drawing room with white joinery and furniture.
61		18/11	'4183 Reading and Chess Rooms, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'	obv: 'America'rev: -	Hotel del Coronado	View from one room to the next through a rectangular opening, both with panelled dados and coffered ceilings
62		19/11	'4192 Bar-room, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'	obv: 'No 3' 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]	Hotel del Coronado	Bar with a projecting polygonal corner, and a sort of baldacchino.
63		20/11	'4106 Hotel del Coronado - Office - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'	obv: 'America' rev: -	Hotel del Coronado	Double height room with lounge seating, upper balcony, counter at rear - presumably reception area.
64		21/11	'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'	obv: 'America' rev: -	Hotel del Coronado	External view with complex massing, about 6 storeys high, giant conical corner pavilion.
65		22/11	'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Bridal Chamber - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., [cropped]'	obv: 'America' rev: -	Hotel del Coronado	Insipid interior with triple arcade across.
66		23/11	'1757'	obv: 'America' rev: 'Ravenswood Ill / J. C. Cochran Arch'	Ravenswood, Illinois: All Saints Episcopal Church, 4550 N Hermitage Ave, by JC Cochran, 1883 [ref Payne, Sinkevitch, p 223]	Church interior with a Mayan arch section, ornamental frieze and pseudo-hammer beams below.
67		24/11	'2314'	obv: 'America' rev: -	?	Interior of what looks like a legislative chamber, with deep coved and panelled ceiling, rich plaster ornament, raked upper gallery, two concentric semicircles of desks & seats.
68		1/13	'1694' [twice]	obv: 'America' rev: -	?	Three storey brick row with shop windows at ground floor, canted oriel bays with domes, decorative banked chimneys on façade, central plate reading ';...WN', and 'Dr. Shaw' on one window.
69		2/13	? '1486'	obv: 'Ohio' rev: 'Ohio / Churly[?] + Clay'	Chicago: Kinsley Building, see no 27	Four storey building with stilted arches and intricate Islamic relief decoration. Adjoining building is G. Jochem's Post Office Exchange
70		3/13	embossed: 'Bedford Lewers & Co / 141, Strand, London'	obv: 'America' rev: -	London	Three storey medievalising building with mainly Gothic arches and a central tower. friezes at gable height seem to show occupations, suggesting that this is an educational building
71		4/13	-	obv: 'Milwaukee' rev: -	Milwaukee: Michaud Block, 1885	Three storey block with central entrance and flanking shops at ground floor, elegant sub-Romanesque detailing, labels '1885', 'Michaud Block'
72		5/13	'2279'	obv: 'Omaha' rev: 'Omaha Nev, [sic] / By Mendelsohne + Fisher'	Omaha, Nebraska OR Kansas City, Missouri	Four storey block in rock-faced sub-Romanesque. Adjoining property is '... Notion Company. 405'
73		6/13	'2279'	obv: 'Kansas City USA' rev: 'Kansas City - / Ohio'	Omaha, Nebraska OR Kansas City, Missouri	Same picture as previous, slightly different cropping.
74		7/13	'51'	obv: 'Kansas City USA' [sic]rev: 'Kansas City'	Chicago: Borden Block, West Randolph & Dearborn Sts, by Adler & Sullivan, 1879-80, demolished 1910 [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 22, 46]	7 storey building, labelled 'Borden Block'.
75		8/13	'5053 / J.W. Taylor, Chi'	obv: 'Baltimore' rev: 'Baltimore'	Baltimore: Hutzler Brothers building	5 storey Byzantine-Romanesque building, with a Moresque central arch, labelled 'Hutzler Brothers'.
76		9/13	'1450'	obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'Hodgson St[...] / St Paul / Minn'	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 building.
77		10/13	'1869'	obv: 'Minneapolis USA' rev: 'Minneapolis / Buffington'	Minneapolis: Boston block, by Buffington, 1881-6.	6 storey plus mansard corner block with pyramidal pavilion roofs at corners, labelled '1881' and 'Boston Block', apparently not quite complete, and with 'Buffington / Architect' across three windows.
78		11/13	-	obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'St Paul / Flanders Ar'	St Paul, by Flanders [could be John J Flanders, but that he doesn't seem to have been in private practice prior to Kilburn's visit].	modest 3 st block with a ground floor shop and at the top floor a shingle-hung cantilevered window bay.
79		12/13	'1873'	obv: 'Lumber exchange Minn.' rev: 'Minneapolis / Minn / Long + Kees'	Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lumber Exchange, by Long & Kees	10 st rock-faced block, labelled 'Lumber Exchange'.