Alice Brusewitz
Alice Brusewitz (née Palmer 1858-1927) was a New Zealand commercial photographer. Alice Brusewitz was born in Nelson, in around 1887 Brusewitz married photographer Henry Elis Leopold Brusewitz, who had been born in Sweden and migrated to New Zealand. The couple lived in Nelson and ran a photographic business there from about 1893.
Also recorded as Alice Palmer
Alice Brusewitz
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- 1858 · Nelson.
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- New Zealand
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- photographer · teacher
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Alice Brusewitz (née Palmer 1858-1927) was a New Zealand commercial photographer. Alice Brusewitz was born in Nelson, in around 1887 Brusewitz married photographer Henry Elis Leopold Brusewitz, who had been born in Sweden and migrated to New Zealand. The couple lived in Nelson and ran a photographic business there from about 1893.
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Born at Nelson in 1858, died in Wellington in 1927.
Work by Alice Brusewitz is recorded in the collections of Nelson Provincial Museum Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao.
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1858
Alice Brusewitz born at Nelson.
1927
Alice Brusewitz died at Wellington.
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- 1.Photography, Early Canterbury. Early New Zealand Photographers: BRUSEWITZ, Henry Elis Leopold. Early New Zealand Photographers.
- 2.CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES—PARKER v. FISHER. Alice Brusewitz, Photos. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
- 3.Mitchell, Lissa. Through shaded glass: women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1960. Te Papa Press. 281–282. 2023. 978-0-9951384-9-0.
- 4.Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, 1855-1922. natlib.govt.nz. 1855-01-01.
- 5.Opening of the Suter Memorial Art Gallery. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
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