The old order and the new. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a broad, with a small boat in the foreground being sailed and rowed towards the camera and a wooden house and watermill on the bank in the background. The title refers to the fact that in the past this district was entirely under water.
The first frost. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of ice and frost at the edge of a broad, with a reed fence on the left and looking towards two boats moored at the water's edge.
Quanting the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
Gunner working up to fowl. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across an expanse of shallow tidal water (possibly at Breydon), with a wild-fowler lying in his gun-punt in the foreground: 'No boat is handier, or more perfectly adapted to its special purpose, than the gun-punt. The draught of water being only a few i...
The fowler's return. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of a wildfowler returning with his catch to a crude boatshed on the edge of the broad: '...Our fowler is returning to the boat-shelter where he houses his punt. Another sportsman has come to have a look at the few birds he has bagged, and to compare notes as to...
Rowing home the shoof-stuff. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
Marshman going to cut shoof-stuff. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...