Coming home from the marshes. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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.....
Setting the bow-net. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography Portrait of a fisherman setting his net in a boat rowed by a young woman: 'Here we have an old Broadman and his daughter out in their flat-bottomed boat on a hot July afternoon, about to drop a bow-net into a likely corner of the Broad to catch some tench...'
A broadman's cottage. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the water, looking towards the cottage beyond the bank, with figures and a boat at the water's edge: 'Here is the Broadman's cottage, perched on a low hill overlooking the broad...In a little dike is moored his boat with the sail up; he is getting ready hi...
An eel-catcher's home. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the water, looking towards the houseboat moored beside the reeds, with an eel fisherman standing with his net in a flat-bottomed fishing boat beside it: 'Familiar to all frequenters of the Broads are the quaint, ark-like house-boats of the eel-catchers. He...