Thomas Rice Burnham
American photographer
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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]
