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Collection Area Printed Collections Subject Farming Level [40] File

1. 1758.b.6(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
1758.b.6(15)
Title:
Hop-picking in Kent. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
Scope & Content:
View showing workers among the hop vines.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 2(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(57)
Title:
The plough. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a Chinese farmer beside his ox-drawn plough.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. C.141.dd.8(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(16)
Title:
Quanting the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View showing a boat loaded with hay being punted along a waterway in the fens, with a smaller boat in the foreground: 'The more cultivated and thoroughly-drained marshes yield a hay of high quality, while the rough stuff grows in abundance on the half-drained ground...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. C.141.dd.8(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(17)
Title:
Poling the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View on an overcast day, with a woman and a man in the foreground on the marsh wall, carrying a load of hay piled on two poles: 'In sharp contrast to this bright July idyl [i.e. plate 16] is the sombre grey tone of 'Poling the marsh hay' — quite as beautiful, but mu...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

5. C.141.dd.8(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(21)
Title:
Rowing home the shoof-stuff. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a man in a small boat, rowing a load of reeds across a broad: 'Schoof-stuff...has a distinct meaning of its own, and is used to describe the crop of marsh plants which, too rough for fodder and too mixed for thatching, are yet cut to be used for covering be...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

6. C.141.dd.8(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(22)
Title:
Marshman going to cut shoof-stuff. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Rear view of a figure standing at the water's edge near his boat, with a load of 'shoof-stuff' (see note at plate 21) piled on the bank: 'The young marshman in the second plate has shouldered his meak [scythe], and now the gladdon is cut and the reed not yet ripe, h...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

7. C.141.dd.8(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(25)
Title:
A reed-cutter at work. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a reed-cutter, at work with his scythe at the water's edge.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

8. C.141.dd.8(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(26)
Title:
Towing the reed. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a man pulling a boat-load of harvested reed: ''Towing reed' illustrates the usual method of getting the loaded boat along the narrow water-arteries which intersect the marshes, and afford communication with the reed-beds. Sturdy of frame and strong-featur...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

9. C.141.dd.8(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(27)
Title:
Ricking the reed. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two workers off-loading sheathes of reed from a boat onto a stack, with the dyke stretching away in the background.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

10. C.141.dd.8(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(28)
Title:
During the reed-harvest. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Showing workers, including one woman, cutting and binding reeds into sheathes.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item