Brickfield on the River Bure (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Industrial Photography View looking across the river toward the kiln and other buildings of the brickmaking works.
The clay-mill (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a horse-driven clay-mill (for grinding down the freshly-dug clay preparatory to brickmaking), being operated by two workers.
Brickmaking (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Industrial Photography Interior of the beickmaking shed, showing a man at work: 'In this plate the operator will be seen standing in a hole in the ground inside a roughly built standard with its two doors. Before him is a counter on whi...
A slippery path — winter scene (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a woman posed in a snow-covered landscape, about cross the small footbridge in the foreground; a row of cottages stands in the background: 'The cottages in our plate are tenanted by peasants more prosperou...
Fencing in Suffolk. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two men at work constructing a fence: 'Our plate gives two fencers at work on a bleak March morning. The first operation is to destroy, and with the hooks they set to work cutting down saplings and bramble...
A Suffolk shrimper 'going off.' Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View from the water's edge, looking towards the small clinker-built fishing boat setting sail.
A Suffolk shrimper 'coming ashore.' Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Head-on view from the water's edge of a Suffolk shrimp boat coming ashore.
A toad in the path: early spring in Norfolk. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two children (taken from behind) on a path beside a dike, with a cottage in the background: 'On the left of the dike two little cottage-urchins have spied a toad in their path, and they have stopped to ey...
Norfolk cottages. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a field towards a row of whitewashed thatched cottages.
A garden end (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography View in a market garden in Beccles, with the owner and a young girl potting plants in the foreground.