Burnham Bros. photograph of the Prince of Wales in Portland, Maine, 1860. US Library of Congress

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]

Notes

  1. ↑ Asa M. Burnham (1825-1879) lived in Bangor, Maine in the 1850s.[2]
  2. ↑ In the 1870s a fire occurred at the Burnham-owned no.130 Shawmut Avenue in Boston.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Burnham Bros. (1860). "Street view in Portland, Me". Washington DC: Library of Congress.
  2. ↑ "Daguerreotypes". Maine Register, and Business Directory. 1856. Burnham Asa M, Bangor; Burnham John U.P., Bangor
  3. ↑ "Photographists". Boston Directory. 1868. 351 Washington
  4. ↑ "Photographists". Boston Almanac. 1876. 627 Washington
  5. ↑ "Photographers". Boston Almanac. 1885. 581 Washington
  6. ↑ "Fires and alarms", Annual Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners, City of Boston, 1888
  7. ↑ "Boston Photographic Society". Philadelphia Photographer. 7. January 1870.
  8. ↑ "The Boston Association of Photographers". Photographic Times and American Photographer. New York: Scovill. 12. April 1882. hdl:2027/njp.32101040483032 – via Hathi Trust.
  9. ↑ "Ms. Coll. 1 Colonel Alfred S. Hartwell Papers, 1862-2003, bulk 1862-1866: Guide" (PDF). State Library of Massachusetts.
  10. ↑ T.R. Burnham. "Clement Granch" – via Boston Public Library and Digital Commonwealth. ca. 1859–1870
  11. ↑ Thomas Rice Burnham. "Hiriam Ulysess Grant". Boston – via Harvard University. 19th c.
  12. ↑ Thomas Rice Burnham. "William Stevens Perry". Maine – via Harvard University. 1861-1863
  13. ↑ T.R. Burnham. "Mr. George Antony Smalley". Dennis Historical Society Archive. hdl:10766/3129.
  14. ↑ "Captured by the Camera (exhibit)". Massachusetts: Concord Free Public Library. 2004.
  15. ↑ United States Centennial Commission (1876). International Exhibition, 1876: Official Catalogue. Philadelphia: J. R. Nagle.
  16. ↑ Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association ... 1887. 1888. T.R. Burnham & Co.
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