Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of five women, posed in front of a doorway and arranged to show details of clothing and hairstyle.
Inscription: Captioned in Japanese in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two women and a man sorting unidentified produce, with drying racks in the background.
Inscription: Inscribed in Japanese in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a man and a woman combing out grain, photographed against a background of tree.
Coming home from the marshes. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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.....
Poling the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...