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Peter Henry Emerson
Victorian Photobook Bought at US Yard Sale to Auction with $67,000 Estimate
July 7, 2025
A copy of Peter Henry Emerson’s groundbreaking 1886 photographic masterpiece Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads discovered wrapped in brown paper in a closet by a 98-year-old woman i
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