Thomas Rice Burnham (1834-1893) or T.R. Burnham was an American photographer. In the 1860s he worked in Maine with Asa Marsh Burnham as "Burnham Bros."[1][nb 1] He later moved to Boston, Massachusetts and operated from a studio on Washington Street until at least 1885.[3][4][5][nb 2] He belonged to the Boston Photographic Society and/or Boston Association of Photographers; among his contemporaries were J.W. Black, E.J. Foss, and E.F. Smith.[7][8] Portrait subjects included Edwin Booth, Alvan Clark & Sons, Edw M Endicott,[9] Clement Granch,[10] Ulysses S. Grant,[11] William Stevens Perry,[12] George Antony Smalley,[13] and Nathan and Mary Barrett Warren.[14] Burnham showed photos in the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition[15] and the 1887 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.[16]
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edit- ^ Burnham Bros. (1860). "Street view in Portland, Me". Washington DC: Library of Congress.
- ^ "Daguerreotypes". Maine Register, and Business Directory. 1856.
Burnham Asa M, Bangor; Burnham John U.P., Bangor
- ^ "Photographists". Boston Directory. 1868.
351 Washington
- ^ "Photographists". Boston Almanac. 1876.
627 Washington
- ^ "Photographers". Boston Almanac. 1885.
581 Washington
- ^ "Fires and alarms", Annual Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners, City of Boston, 1888
- ^ "Boston Photographic Society". Philadelphia Photographer. 7. January 1870.
- ^ "The Boston Association of Photographers". Photographic Times and American Photographer. 12. New York: Scovill. April 1882. hdl:2027/njp.32101040483032 – via Hathi Trust.
- ^ "Ms. Coll. 1 Colonel Alfred S. Hartwell Papers, 1862-2003, bulk 1862-1866: Guide" (PDF). State Library of Massachusetts.
- ^ T.R. Burnham. "Clement Granch" – via Boston Public Library and Digital Commonwealth. ca. 1859–1870
- ^ Thomas Rice Burnham. "Hiriam Ulysess Grant". Boston – via Harvard University. 19th c.
- ^ Thomas Rice Burnham. "William Stevens Perry". Maine – via Harvard University. 1861-1863
- ^ T.R. Burnham. "Mr. George Antony Smalley". Dennis Historical Society Archive. hdl:10766/3129.[dead link]
- ^ "Captured by the Camera (exhibit)". Massachusetts: Concord Free Public Library. 2004.
- ^ United States Centennial Commission (1876). International Exhibition, 1876: Official Catalogue. Philadelphia: J. R. Nagle.
- ^ Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association ... 1887. 1888.
T.R. Burnham & Co.
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- T.R. Burnham. "Labels" – via Maine Historical Society.
- Maine Historical Society (ed.). "Daguerreotypical Mainers" – via Pinterest. (includes photos by Burnham)
- "Photograph of Edward Lewis Sturtevant, stamped 'T.R. Burnham, Photographer, 90 Middle Street, Portland, Maine'". 1860 – via Missouri Digital Heritage.
- Thomas R. Burnham (1873). "E.M.P. Wells" – via Boston Athenaeum. 1873-1874 (photo)
- "Photograph album 75" – via Historic New England.
- Ron Polito (ed.). "Boston Photographers Cited in 19th Century American Photographic Journals: A Bibliographic Database" – via Photographic Historical Society of New England. (includes info related to Burnham)