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...
Towing the reed. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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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...
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...
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...