The collection · DiffusionLab

A coal burning trawler with a tall funnel up a harbour on a rising tide, the herring season, pen study of a net mender, grey scale with no white in it. Work 10297.

A rope-belted mooring buoy behind a curved white screen, the first winter of the 1910s, Stevengraph silk picture. Work 10173.

Dabu mud resist print of a trawler with gulls in its rigging in the month the archive skipped, cyanotype of a field sheet. Work 9994.

Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930. Work 9990.

Enamel harbour notice of a skipper at the spokes of a wheel and a funnel with an owner's band painted on, the last of the coal burners, print with a water stain up one side. Work 9854.

A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash. Work 9698.

Night photograph by flash powder of a yard floodlight mast at night, daylight colour film in flat light, flashbulb at close range. Work 9319.

Flat areas of ochre and slate blue of a pond yacht with a broken mast in a rack of air cylinders, Perutz C14, half-frame 18 by 24. Work 8942.

1883: a woman in a headwrap with a rum glass under a squall crossing the bay, pen and ink with mechanical ruling, sheet with pin holes at four corners. Work 8888.

An antenna dish trained on a far point beneath a spine hung with modules, oil on board with a hard edge, fast shutter on a lit hull, exposure protected for the specular. Work 8711.

A liner's bow towering above a quay beside a lifeboat in white, the coronation summer, poster cut from two wood blocks, foxing along the lower margin. Work 8589.

1899: a night-lit forest of masts in a fishing dock, harbour board survey photograph, mixed lamp light and dawn. Work 8524.

A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.

Flat colour lithograph primer illustration of a lifeboat on its slipway and a crest above a helm and mantling, around 1150, streaky rolled glass in lead. Work 8421.

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

A scrubbed fishing smack with tan sails, mid 1930s, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 7988.

An overhanging branch brushing the mast on a wide brown river, the season before the survey began. Work 7975.

A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun. Work 7885.

1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 7869.

A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash. Work 7818.

Silhouette of a tower against white cloud of a cinema marquee with letters missing in a tonic suit that shifts in the light, the spring of 1973. Work 7738.

A rigger walking a beam above cloud within reach of a turning camera mast, nobody on that floor had a surname. Work 7715.

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 light-barred access ladder lashed to a tower in black lace over black velvet, the Age of Sail, long lens on a distant station. Work 7044.

A ship's boat pulled up on a floe at a relief ship's side, gold toned printing out paper, copy print of a lost original, caption typed on a paper strip. Work 6798.

Sponsor billboard at the top of a show of a girl reaching for the cereal box under a parabolic antenna, the early 1940s, two inch quadruplex tape artefacts. Work 6608.

A rotunda at Nottingham Goose Fair, the year the lido closed. Work 6576.

An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black. Work 6257.

A ghost ship drifting with no crew behind a teller's grille, nobody heard from him again. Work 5762.

A police car with hair on a whaling ship, an argument with a lighthouse, Clementine Hunter painting, dark sky. Work 5725.