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Collection Area Printed Collections Subject Agricultural labourers Name Emerson, Peter Henry, photographer and writer, 1856-1936

1. C.141.dd.8(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(1)
Title:
Coming home from the marshes. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a group of reed-cutters walking home along the side of a fen: 'Along the marsh wall comes a group of labourers returning from their short day's work. Typical specimens these of the Norfolk peasant, — wiry in body, pleasant in manner, intelligent in mind.....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. C.141.dd.8(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(32)
Title:
Cutting the gladdon. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a man, cutting bulrushes with a scythe from a small boat.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

10. C.141.dd.8(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(33)
Title:
The gladdon-cutter's return. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View showing a bulrush cutter poling a boat loaded with harvested 'gladdon' or bulrushes.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

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