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Subject Reed-cutters Level [40] File

1. C.141.dd.8(1)

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

2. 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

3. 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:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. 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

5. 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