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...'
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...
The old order and the new. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a broad, with a small boat in the foreground being sailed and rowed towards the camera and a wooden house and watermill on the bank in the background. The title refers to the fact that in the past this district was entirely under water.
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...