Eliphalet J. Foss (1840–1922/1923) or E.J. Foss was an American photographer active in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived/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 Foss' work are in Harvard University, the Henry Ford Museum, and Massachusetts Historical Society. His wife was the elocutionist, Louise Woodworth Foss.