Where winds the dyke (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View along a dyke towards a small wooden bridge: '...The wandering dyke leads the eye up to a quaint rustic bridge, beneath which it flows on past a deserted cattle-shed, half-buried in some wispy willows, whose ne...
A way across the marshes (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography 'In our second plate, far away extends the long, straight marsh-road, with its gleaming dikes on either hand—far away to the windmil, whose arms are lazily turning in the summer breeze. On the road, the thistles gr...
Brickfield on the River Bure (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Industrial Photography View looking across the river toward the kiln and other buildings of the brickmaking works.
The clay-mill (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a horse-driven clay-mill (for grinding down the freshly-dug clay preparatory to brickmaking), being operated by two workers.
Brickmaking (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Industrial Photography Interior of the beickmaking shed, showing a man at work: 'In this plate the operator will be seen standing in a hole in the ground inside a roughly built standard with its two doors. Before him is a counter on whi...
A slippery path — winter scene (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a woman posed in a snow-covered landscape, about cross the small footbridge in the foreground; a row of cottages stands in the background: 'The cottages in our plate are tenanted by peasants more prosperou...
Fencing in Suffolk. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two men at work constructing a fence: 'Our plate gives two fencers at work on a bleak March morning. The first operation is to destroy, and with the hooks they set to work cutting down saplings and bramble...
A Suffolk shrimper 'going off.' Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View from the water's edge, looking towards the small clinker-built fishing boat setting sail.
A Suffolk shrimper 'coming ashore.' Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Head-on view from the water's edge of a Suffolk shrimp boat coming ashore.
A toad in the path: early spring in Norfolk. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two children (taken from behind) on a path beside a dike, with a cottage in the background: 'On the left of the dike two little cottage-urchins have spied a toad in their path, and they have stopped to ey...