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101. 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:
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

102. 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:
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

103. 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:
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

104. 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

105. 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

106. 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

107. 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

108. 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

109. C.141.dd.8(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(34)
Title:
Quanting the gladdon. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Showing a man poling a small boat loaded with 'gladdon' or bulrushes.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

110. C.141.dd.8(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(36)
Title:
Twixt land and water. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography ''Twixt land and water' is suggestive of life on the Broad. On the grass lies, upside down, the flat-bottomed boat which is used by the Broadman when he goes to fish, or cut the reed and gladdon. The man has just been tarring it, and the shiny surface reflects so mu...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

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