L M Rice

photographer: Rice
Warren OH
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Luther Melville Rice
(1826-1913)

1826 Feb 12
Marlborough, MA, state records, Luther Melville Rice is born to Levi Rice and Lucinda Bigelow
1852 Jun 15
Leicester, MA, state records, Luther Rice as photographer marries Hanna M Stevens
1863 Jul 01
Marlboro, MA, Civil War Draft Registration, L M Rice as artist; Howard Richardson, photographer, on same list
1869 Aug 25
Warren, OH, Western Reserve Chronicle, item says L M Rice has photographed the First National Bank
1870 Jul 15
Warren, OH, US census Luthor M Rice as photographer; on same page with Isaac D Bliss and Chester H Stoddart, photographers, Eugene Chase, colorist

1872 Jan 03
Warren, OH, Western Reserve Chronicle, item says L M Rice and I D Bliss have dissolved partnership
1880 Jun 24
Warren, OH, US census, L M Rice as photographic artist
1880 Jul 30
Warren, OH, Astabula, OH Weekly Telegraph item says L M Rice has photographed General Garfield
1889-1890
Trumbull County, OH, directory, L M Rice as photographer at 403 E South
1900 Jun 11
Chagrin Falls, OH, US census, L M Rice as photographer
1912
Short bio on Turnbull Memory says that Rice studio was at 13 ½ East Market Street, in Warren. OH

1913 Apr 04
Chagrin Falls, OH, FindAGrave Luther M Rice dies at age 87

Not much has been found about Luther Melville Rice. He did operate out of Warren, OH, mostly. Born in 1826, he was 25 or 30 years older than most of the cabinet card era photographers in the Midwest. He worked in the early years as a daguerreotypist and was an experienced photographer by the time cabinet cards became popular around 1860.

Warren, OH, Western Reserve Chronicle -
25 Aug 1869

Warren, OH, Western Reserve Chronicle -
03 Jan 1872


Ashtabula (OH) Weekly Telegraph - 30 Jul 1880


Photographic Times and American Photographer - 1883

photographer: Rice
Warren, OH
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photographer L M Rice
Chagrin Falls, OH
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photographer L M Rice
Warren, OH
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photographer L M Rice
Warren, OH
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photographer: L M Rice
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reverse of card at left

photographer:
(credited to Rice; highly restored; reverse not available)
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The card at the right is from L Rice of Victoria, Texas. So far no connection has been made to L M Rice of Ohio.

Fhotographer: L Rice
Victoria, TX
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reverse of card at left

The card at the right is from L M Rice of Bastrop, TX. This is probably the same as the above Rice working in Victoria, TX.

So far no connection has been made to L M Rice of Ohio.

photographer: L M Rice
Bastrop, TX
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The card at the right is by a photographer Rice of Washington D C.

No connection to L M Rice has been found.

photographer: Rice
1217-1219 Penn av, Washington, DC
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reverse of card at left

The card at the right is by photographer Warren Rice of Warren, OH.

No connection to L M Rice has been found.

A small timeline can be seen here.

photographer: Warren Rice
Warren, OH
example from auction site

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