Eliphalet J. Foss
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Eliphalet J. Foss or E.J. Foss (1840–1922 or 1923) was an American photographer active in
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. He lived and worked on Tremont Row. He belonged to the Boston Photographic Association; contemporaries included Thomas Rice Burnham. Around 1880, his business was taken over by A.B. Eaton. circa 1880 Examples of his work are in Harvard University, the
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, and Massachusetts Historical Society. His wife was elocutionist Louise Woodworth Foss.


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* (includes enthusiastic description of Foss' studio and equipment) {{DEFAULTSORT:Foss, Eliphalet American portrait photographers 1840 births 1920s deaths Photographers from Boston 19th century in Boston 19th-century American photographers