Twixt land and water. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography ''Twixt land and water' is suggestive of life on the Broad. On the grass lies, upside down, the flat-bottomed boat which is used by the Broadman when he goes to fish, or cut the reed and gladdon. The man has just been tarring it, and the shiny surface reflects so mu...
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.....
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...