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Tab.443.a.6(22)
- Record Id:
- 040-003302322
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003302300
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x001415
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Tab.443.a.6(22)
- Title:
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Brickmaking (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
- Scope & Content:
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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 which he works. To his right stands a heap of ground clay and a bucket of water. In front of him are piles of small brick boards, each a little larger in area than the flat side of a brick; whilst on his left is a small oven in which a fire can be made by which to dry the finely ground clay used to sprinkle over the brick and board to prevent the new clay from sticking ... An average workman can make fifteen hundred bricks a day, for which he gets five shillings per thousand for red bricks, while for white bricks he gets two shillings per shousand more...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003302300
040-003302322 - Is part of:
- Tab.443.a.6 : Pictures of East Anglian life. Illustrated with thirty-two photogravures and fifteen small illustrations. With general and…
Tab.443.a.6(22) : Brickmaking (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry - Hierarchy:
- 032-003302300[0022]/040-003302322
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Tab.443.a.6
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Photogravure
Photomechanical Print - Start Date:
- 1880
- End Date:
- 1887
- Date Range:
- 1880s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 179 mm x 194 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Emerson, Peter Henry, photographer and writer, 1856-1936
- Subjects:
- Brickmaking Industry
Industry - Places:
- Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Western Europe