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.
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...
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...
Towing the reed. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
Ricking the reed. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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.