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032-003302300 Material Type Photographs

1. Tab.443.a.6

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6
Title:
Pictures of East Anglian life. Illustrated with thirty-two photogravures and fifteen small illustrations. With general and descriptive text and three appendices. Photographer(s): Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. 1888. Folio, quarter leather and red cloth binding (British Museum binding), with coat of arms stamped in blind on upper board, measuring 435 x 355 mm; top edge gilt; pp. iv, 150, [...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
32 items

2. Tab.443.a.6(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(22)
Title:
Brickmaking (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

3. Tab.443.a.6(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(28)
Title:
Norfolk cottages. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a field towards a row of whitewashed thatched cottages.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. Tab.443.a.6(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(21)
Title:
The clay-mill (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

5. Tab.443.a.6(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(32)
Title:
A Norfolk flower. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Brown-toned photogravure. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Norfolk girl.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

6. Tab.443.a.6(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(14)
Title:
Osier-peeling (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of girls and young women at work: 'Here we have a basket-maker's yard as seen by us one beautiful day in early spring. Here, at the brakes, we see the women hard at work peeling the pliant osier stems, while ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

7. Tab.443.a.6(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(17)
Title:
Eel-picking in Suffolk waters. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of an ell fisherman, posed with his son on the bank of a dike, about to plunge the trident-like eel-pick into the water.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

8. Tab.443.a.6(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(1)
Title:
In the hayset. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Frontispiece. View looking along a path running beside a stream, towards an approaching horse cart loaded with hay.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

9. Tab.443.a.6(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(3)
Title:
Leafless March (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View across open land, with a leafless tree and a boy posed beside a stream in the foreground: 'It was a cold day in March that we took these plates ... On the way, as we were going down a sloping field, Friend Far...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

10. Tab.443.a.6(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(8)
Title:
Shocking corn (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View across a harvested corn field, with a figure in the foreground stacking the sheaves of corn.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item