[Coffee plantation, Sukabumi.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '21' in pencil on mount. Genre: Industrial Photography Scene in the compound of a coffee plantation at Sukabumi, showing a group of labourers seated and standing among coffee beans lying out on the drying ground in front of a tile-roofed bungalow. Identification of locati...
[Cibeureum Cinchona Plantation, Malabar Mountain, south of Bandung.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '56' in pencil on mount. Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a group of labourers, under the eye of a European overseer, stripping bark from cinchona trees on the Government-owned plantation. Identification of location from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photograph...
In the barley-harvest (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of three agricultural labourers in a barley field: 'On our return to the barley-field we determined to take a plate during one of the short rests so frequent in this hard labour. Here one man is honing his ...
Shocking corn (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View across a harvested corn field, with a figure in the foreground stacking the sheaves of corn.
Furze-cutting on a Suffolk common. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two men cutting furze, the figure in the foreground wielding a scythe: 'One day in early autumn we met the intelligent model shown in the plate. He was hard at work with his short stout scythe, cutting the...
Osier-peeling (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of girls and young women at work: 'Here we have a basket-maker's yard as seen by us one beautiful day in early spring. Here, at the brakes, we see the women hard at work peeling the pliant osier stems, while ...