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1. C.141.dd.8(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(18)
Title:
Setting up the bow-net. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of two fishermen, posed among the reeds at the water's edge in the act of adjusting their bow net.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

2. 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

3. C.141.dd.8(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(13)
Title:
A Norfolk boat-yard. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. C.141.dd.8(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(32)
Title:
Cutting the gladdon. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a man, cutting bulrushes with a scythe from a small boat.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. C.141.dd.8(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(6)
Title:
An eel-catcher's home. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

9. C.141.dd.8(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(7)
Title:
Taking up the eel-net. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Portrait of two men in a small boat pulling in their net, with a houseboat moored at the bank in the background.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

10. C.141.dd.8(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(17)
Title:
Poling the marsh hay. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item