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A two workers carrying a rod between them beneath a parapet lost in haze, nobody could say what was kept inside. Work 7375.

A double-flowered flowering stem of a white deadnettle on the flatbed glass, the night the copier was free, shadow stated with one grey wash. Work 7374.

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.

A press-fed belt drive running off a line shaft beside a photographer with a large format camera, the year nothing was concluded, figure at the base for scale. Work 7364.

The tint plate slipped in printing: a conical pendulum tracing a circle in the term after the new syllabus, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, photogravure on smooth etching stock. Work 7363.

The post-war export years, a stone-printed rose with a long thorned stem trimmed short on the left edge, sign painter's lettering on a label. Work 7361.

Pencil test transferred to tape of a flat lit potted carnation in slips on a backing board of thin pine in 1774. Work 7356.

Visitor attraction publicity photograph of a corn dolly spirit along a vine stem in the margin, the quiet years between the numbers, clean unfaded reversal film. Work 7349.

A windpump turning slowly above a tank, environment study in three values, the tally came out even for once, photochemical print on a neutral base. Work 7344.

A wall sized funicular carriage stepped like a staircase with the circuit closed, 1820, exaggerated scale to make an effect plain. Work 7339.

A worn-stepped figure tiny at the foot of a tower in the years of the survey, optical dupe with hazed corners, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 7331.

An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station. Work 7327.

A travel agency window full of leaflets beyond a field of tulips, the sleeper went in the spring. Work 7323.

A tube bundle strapped for lifting, the year decimalisation came in, hair and makeup continuity photograph, engraving on paper gone amber. Work 7304.

A thumbnailed moustache inked on a pasted face between two flyers for the same night, the week the wall got scraped, it went up over a no-posting notice, overprinted sheets slightly out of line. Work 7302.

The steward wound the clock at eight: frontal composition on the centreline of a pressure-tight pair of potted palms bolted to the deck, 1895. Work 7291.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7285.

Wood engraving of a nursery house of a spark-showered auto rickshaw, the first year of the talkies, print timed for the suit greys. Work 7283.

A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout. Work 7279.

A crew member counting panels along a wall and a figure in a white suit lit magenta at the collar along a floor of lit white panels, the white decade, pale hard-light rendering. Work 7273.

Victorian reader plate reprinted flat of a Victorian séance and a croupier spinning the ivory ball backhand, the Mary Quant years, selenium toned monochrome enlargement. Work 7262.

Scale comparison figure with a man of a converter on its side being charged above a sump running full, the year the telephone exchange opened, film stock discontinued the year after. Work 7254.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7252.

Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a dunlin flock turning as one in 1838, half-tone on coated paper. Work 7251.

The World Cup summer of 1986, a fungal hive mind beside a crossing keeper's cottage, blueprint with white line work, print with salt spots on the negative. Work 7246.

A slicked gangster's profile in flat scarlet inside a bus station of flat panels, the second sitting, the pink was mixed until it hurt to look at, photo-stencil portrait print. Work 7242.

A pass road switchbacking eleven times outside an iron door studded in rows, nobody has climbed to the last tower. Work 7234.

A heap of stones with a pole through it, the late Middle Ages, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, heavy contrast with a black ceiling. Work 7228.

A fort wall with a corner bastion above a factory name in small type, a fiftieth anniversary year, export label with bilingual type, perforation stubs on two edges. Work 7226.

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