Thomas Rice Burnham

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]

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

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. "Boston Association of Photographers". Photographic Times and American Photographer. New York: Scovill. 12. April 1882 – 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". hdl:10766/3129. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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.

External links

• 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. "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)