![[BURTON BROTHERS.] Photograph album, circa 1880, comprising 47 large mounted photographs by Burton Brothers, titled and signed in the image (5 7/8 x 8 inches or vice versa) and 76 small mounted anonymous snapshots, most titled in manuscript beneath the image. (Foxing to mounts, some photos discolored.) Contemporary black half leather, pebbled cloth boards.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/LAX/2001_LAX_09700_0013_000(023106).jpg?w=1)
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[BURTON BROTHERS.] Photograph album, circa 1880, comprising 47 large mounted photographs by Burton Brothers, titled and signed in the image (5 7/8 x 8 inches or vice versa) and 76 small mounted anonymous snapshots, most titled in manuscript beneath the image. (Foxing to mounts, some photos discolored.) Contemporary black half leather, pebbled cloth boards.
The Burton Brothers firm was one of New Zealand's earliest established photography studios. Run by Alfred Henry Burton (1834-1914) and Walter John Burton (1836-1880), the studio used the new technology to record the landscape and people of New Zealand. This album contains a wide variety of subjects from the Pacific Islands, including images of natives in Samoa, Tonga, New Hebrides, Vavau, Fiji and Noumea. Among the more striking images is one depicting five natives outside a hut, titled beneath: "Cannibals in New Hebrides." A photo with the same inscription is found at the back of the album among the smaller photographs, this time showing 8 natives on the beach sitting beside 3 well-appointed Westerners. Photographs of Westerners in less compromising situations are also found. A photo of Robert Louis Stevenson's house in Samoa is also present.
The Burton Brothers firm was one of New Zealand's earliest established photography studios. Run by Alfred Henry Burton (1834-1914) and Walter John Burton (1836-1880), the studio used the new technology to record the landscape and people of New Zealand. This album contains a wide variety of subjects from the Pacific Islands, including images of natives in Samoa, Tonga, New Hebrides, Vavau, Fiji and Noumea. Among the more striking images is one depicting five natives outside a hut, titled beneath: "Cannibals in New Hebrides." A photo with the same inscription is found at the back of the album among the smaller photographs, this time showing 8 natives on the beach sitting beside 3 well-appointed Westerners. Photographs of Westerners in less compromising situations are also found. A photo of Robert Louis Stevenson's house in Samoa is also present.