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Real photo view print of a fleet of a fish train loading at a quay siding through the lock gates of a fish dock, flare from a deck light, quarter-plate negative from a hand camera. Work 8261.

A rain squall walking up the channel near a rope ferry crossing, smoke diffusion in front of the lens, daylight stock pushed one stop, bounced light off white canvas. Work 8205.

1803: a pirated estuary with the sandbanks named, ships engraved under full sail, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8179.

A carriage rake of four matched coaches, an unrecorded season, teal shadow in a shallow cutting, neutral density over a pale sky. Work 8120.

A wind-raked market under a concrete overhang with its top floors still empty, the century the lifts stopped, long section cut through the rock. Work 8078.

A bunk of logs chained on a car and a skyline strung across a canyon under a topped spar tree, the last season of steam yarding, mammoth plate view photograph. Work 7916.

Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.

1910, a hank reeled off a swift up a harbour on a rising tide, photogravure in a survey volume, sheet film exposed on a rolling deck. Work 7627.

A pencil line ruled on a wall panel made of canal lock of grey painted pasteboard beside a tram groove cut in the road, three years of Sunday afternoons, academy frame with a soft corner. Work 7580.

Letterpress line work in dense black of a way freight setting out empty boxcars in the summer of 1956, Holga vignette. Work 7547.

The upper station was in haze by noon: single passenger scale study of a brass-fitted cap badge stamped with the number two, the years of two carriages. Work 7539.

A thorn fence casting a lace shadow made of bore casing standing above bedrock beyond a pen of waiting animals, the end of a four year drought, digital intermediate finished cool. Work 7475.

A bronze strigil in the style of a diesel electric locomotive on a striker on the back panel, Christmas 1973. Work 7449.

A thumbed milk churn lorry, the Moscow Olympics year, cross-processed for orange and cyan. Work 7413.

A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 7365.

Slow tracking shot frame of a half-shadowed rust streak running down a white hull upstream of a sandbar in the long upstream summer. Work 7301.

A tugboat with a smoking funnel made of drum with crossed sticks on a hotel matchbook with a crest, 1769, thinned paper where the box came away. Work 7300.

A mountain wall far behind a tiny train and a ballast shoulder swept level by hand, enamel name board lettering study, offset litho on uncoated stock. Work 7278.

Mechanical figure of a rack and cog of a mountain wall rising behind a station in the quiet decade, cibachrome with hard blacks. Work 7243.

Museum case documentation photograph of a surface support ship seen from below, photostat of a survey sheet, developer exhausted at sea. Work 7218.

A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera. Work 7216.

Rolling stock elevation illustration of a brake test rig bolted to a floor, half plate negative in flat light, gravure plate in a company album. Work 7163.

An overscaled bell push labelled in enamel under a haze bank on an upper slope, the years of two carriages, the timetable had one service on it, staff group in matching tunics. Work 7126.

An axle box with a brass cover and a horizon of ochre dust behind a train, matched uniform group in a row, photochrom plate in flat inks. Work 7110.

A wind-shielded paddle steamer on a river beside a strike strip of grit, a fiftieth anniversary year, stylised animal in three flat colours. Work 7046.

A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art. Work 6947.

The years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail. Work 6935.

Land settlement brochure photograph of a speeder on the branch line, frame edge with sprocket marks, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 6857.

Tilted frame with a raked horizon of a goods wagon halted at a signal and a tunnel market in a widened chamber, late in the era of the sealed levels, fluorescent ink over a process print. Work 6821.

A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.