Caption
View of a state peat press machine in the low moor southeast of Amsterdam, In the low moor, Collection A, Geographical sculpture gallery, collected by MJ Broekhuijsen, headmaster of a school in Amsterdam, stereograph, inscription: SE of Amsterdam. The state peat press machine extracts the peat, presses it, and cuts peat blocks from it. See pl. 24.', number: 'A.23.', number: '23.', Amsterdam, publisher: Merkelbach & Co., compiler (person in literature): Martien Johan Broekhuijsen, 1900 - 1902, Merkelbach & Co., Martien Johan Broekhuijsen, photographer, publisher, compiler (person in literature), pasteboard, paper, albumen print, albumendruk, height 87 mm x width 176 mm, peat-cutting, world fair, world exhibition, A sepia-toned scene showing a body of water in the foreground and a narrow strip of land with grassy edges above it, behind which a working structure stands near the right edge; the structure has a tall vertical pole, a ladder-like frame, a small roofed section, visible machinery and pulleys, and several people clustered around its base, while the left background shows rounded haystacks on flat land under a pale sky.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A80_445
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