A Norfolk boat-yard. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
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...
Gunner working up to fowl. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
The fowler's return. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
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...