Series·CVAR photographic archive
Visitors' albums of the 1920s and 1930s
41 photographs · 1900–99
Sites: Palaepaphos, Salamis, Nea Paphos-Tombs of the Kings, Skouriotissa, Soli, Kourion
Forty-one photographs from four family and holiday albums of the 1920s and 1930s. The Jackson Family Collection (1923–1924) belonged to Charles Freedman Jackson, director of the Skouriotissa mines, who lived with his wife Ruby in the Skouriotissa monastery complex; its photographs show the family beside a newly found column near the monastery and old mine workings that the album calls Roman, the Cyprus Museum in 1923, and their outings of 1924 to Salamis, Kourion, Kouklia and Bellapais.
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The collection of Sir Herbert Henniker-Heaton, Colonial Secretary of Cyprus from 1929 to 1934, was given to CVAR by his granddaughter Susan Cameron. Its prints of the 1930s show the rooms of the Cyprus Museum and visitors looking at the antiquities, Salamis, the theatre at Soli, an excavation and a photographer at work. "A Holiday Album: Cyprus in the 1930s" has the doorway of the first Cyprus Museum on Victoria Street in Nicosia and a walk through the ruins of the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos. The undated album of Sir Joseph and Lady Hutchinson, with handwritten captions, shows the same sanctuary and the rock-cut Tombs of the Kings at Nea Paphos.
Sources
- Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Nicosia. Catalogue records of the Jackson Family Collection, the Sir Herbert Henniker-Heaton Collection, "A Holiday Album: Cyprus in the 1930s" and the Sir Joseph and Lady Hutchinson Collection. https://cvar.severis.org/en/explore/collections-archives/photographs/ (accessed 29 October 2026).
- Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR). "Ruby, wife of the director of Skouriotissa Mines Charles Freedman Jackson, living in the Skouriotissa monastery complex, wrote to her siblings" (16 February 1924). History Today, CVAR blog. https://cvar.severis.org/en/explore/our-blog/history-today/ruby-wife-of-the-director-of-skouriotissa-mines-charles-freedman-jackson-living-in-the-skouriotissa-monastery-complex-wrote-to-her-siblings/ (accessed 29 October 2026).
Photograph: c.1930. pht_00926. "The First Cyprus Museum". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01124. "Palaepaphos: large dressed stone blocks among ruins". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01125. "Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01128. "Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01129. "Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01130. "Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01131. "Ruins at Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01132. "Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01133. "Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01134. "Palaepaphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01144. "Salamis ruins in Famagusta". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01145. "Salamis ruins in Famagusta". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01817. "Ruins of the temple of Venus in Paphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01818. "Ruins of the temple of Venus in Paphos, Cyprus". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01819. "Ruins of the temple of Venus, Paphos, Cyprus". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01820. "Ruins of the temple of Venus in Paphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01824. "Rock tombs, Paphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01825. "Rock [..] Tombs, Paphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01826. "Rock […] Tombs, Paphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_01827. "Rock tombs, Paphos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1923. pht_09550. "The family with Tim Sides at a recently excavated pillar, near the monastery". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1924. pht_09621. "Charles and Ruby at a rock face near the mine". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1924. pht_09660. "Old Roman incline working, Skouriotissa". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1923. pht_09752. "Cyprus Museum Nicosia". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1924. pht_09768. "Bellapais tomb". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1924. pht_09774. "Ruins at temple of Venus". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1924. pht_09777. "Ancient pillars at Apollo's temple, Kourion". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1924. pht_09780. "Ruins at Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1924. pht_09781. "Ruins of temple, Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_019. "Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_020. "Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_021. "Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_023. "Nicosia Museum". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_057. "Cyprus Museum (Nicosia)". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_060. "Looking at Cypriot antiquities at the Cyprus Museum". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_061. "Excavations". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_062. "Excavations". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_063. "Tiered stone seating of the theatre at Soloi". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_064. "The Roman theatre at Soloi". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_158. "Taking photos, Cyprus". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1930–40. pht_HHH_159. "Taking photos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.