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." 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 Edwin Booth, Alvan Clark & Sons, Edw M Endicott, Clement Granch, Ulysess S. Grant, William Stevens Perry, 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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- 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)
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