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101. C.141.dd.8(16)

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C.141.dd.8(16)
Title:
Quanting the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

102. C.141.dd.8(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(19)
Title:
Gunner working up to fowl. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

103. C.141.dd.8(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(20)
Title:
The fowler's return. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

104. 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

105. 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

106. C.141.dd.8(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(23)
Title:
The River Bure at Coltishall. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View on the river, looking towards a Norfolk wherry moored beside the bank.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

107. C.141.dd.8(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(24)
Title:
Cantley: wherries waiting for the turn of the tide. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography An evening view at Cantley, looking along the bank of the River Yare towards three Nofolk wherries, moored near a group of houses with their sails set.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

108. 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:
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Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

109. 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

110. 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

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