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Subject Manners and Customs Level [40] File

61. C.141.dd.8(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(13)
Title:
A Norfolk boat-yard. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View from the water's edge, looking towards men at work in the foreground, with the boatyard buildings beyond: 'Here, at the boat-yard, a boat-wright and his man are busily at work dressing with tar a flat-bottomed reed-boat, making it all tight and ready for the w...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

62. C.141.dd.8(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(15)
Title:
The haunt of the pike. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the reed-covered edge of a broad, with a fisherman netting a pike from a small boat near the bank.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

64. C.141.dd.8(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(17)
Title:
Poling the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

65. C.141.dd.8(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(18)
Title:
Setting up the bow-net. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of two fishermen, posed among the reeds at the water's edge in the act of adjusting their bow net.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

66. 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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

67. 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:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

68. 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:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

69. 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:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

70. 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:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item