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.