Thomas Rice Burnham (1834-1893) or T.R. Burnham was an American photographer. In the 1860s he worked in
Maine
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with Asa Marsh Burnham as "Burnham Bros." He later moved to
Boston, Massachusetts and operated from a studio on
Washington Street until at least 1885. 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. Portrait subjects included
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, Edw M Endicott, Clement Granch,
Ulysses S. Grant
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William Stevens Perry
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, George Antony Smalley, and Nathan and Mary Barrett Warren. Burnham showed photos in the 1876 Philadelphia
Centennial Exposition and the 1887 exhibition of the
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.
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American portrait photographers
1834 births
1893 deaths
Photographers from Massachusetts
Artists from Boston
Artists from Maine
19th century in Boston
19th-century American photographers