About Alfred Henry Burton
Lived 1834 – 1914 (aged 79–80). Alfred Henry Burton was a New Zealand photographer.
Loading cane at a sugar plantation on Mago island, Fiji; 1884. Alfred Henry Burton ( 1834 – 2 February 1914) is a nineteenth-century New Zealand photographer.
Biography Burton was born in Leicester, England. His father, John Burton, was a photographer and his firm was called John Burton and Sons. Burton and his three brothers also did photography. His brother Walter John Burton emigrated to New Zealand first and after being inundated with work requested Alfred join him, and in 1868 he did. The business was renamed Burton Brothers. Alfred Burton travelled in New Zealand taking landscape images for the business including Fiordland, the Southern Lakes and South Westland.
After the destruction of the New Zealand tourist attraction the Pink and White Terraces in 1886 Burton took new photos, his 'before and after' shots were useful to researchers. Burton continued practicing with the Burton Brothers business in the 1880s but had stopped by 1889. The business continued and prospered from a demand for postcards in the early 1900s.
Burton came ninth in the three-member electorate in the .
Burton died in 1914.
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New Zealand photographer (1834–1914)
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Alfred Henry Burton was born in 1834 in Leicester.
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Alfred Henry Burton died on 2 February 1914.
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Alfred Henry Burton was a photographer.
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Alfred Henry Burton was New Zealand.
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