The old order and the new. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a broad, with a small boat in the foreground being sailed and rowed towards the camera and a wooden house and watermill on the bank in the background. The title refers to the fact that in the past this district was entirely under water.
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...
The first frost. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of ice and frost at the edge of a broad, with a reed fence on the left and looking towards two boats moored at the water's edge.
Quanting the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
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...