Eliphalet J. Foss Explained

Eliphalet J. Foss or E.J. Foss (1840–1922 or 1923) was an American photographer active in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived and worked on Tremont Row.[1] [2] He belonged to the Boston Photographic Association;[3] contemporaries included Thomas Rice Burnham. Around 1880, his business was taken over by A.B. Eaton.[4] Examples of his work are in Harvard University, the Henry Ford Museum, and Massachusetts Historical Society. His wife was elocutionist Louise Woodworth Foss.

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  1. Book: . 1868 . Photographists .
  2. Book: . 1873 .
  3. Philadelphia Photographer . Photographers' Exhibition . 1874 .
  4. Web site: Bust portrait, young lady with fur hat and flower scarf . A.B. Eaton, Photographer, Successor to E.J. Foss, 171 1-2 Tremont Street, Boston, (MA) . Yale University . circa 1880