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Field photograph·C00419·1927–28

Café at Lapithos with Erik Sjöqvist and John Lindros

Café interior at Lapithos with a group of men seated at small tables and standing around the walls
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–28. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00419. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A crowd of about twenty-five men, with a few boys, fills a whitewashed café room with a stone floor. Some sit at small wooden tables with glass bottles and cups, while others stand along the walls and behind the seated men. Shelves behind them hold bottles, jars and boxes, a hanging oil lamp is in the centre, and a printed sign and a poster hang on the walls.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Men seated and standing in a café interior at Lapithos, with bottles on shelves and a hanging lamp overhead
  • Group of men in a café interior at Lapithos, seated and standing around small wooden tables
Description, scan 2
A whitewashed, vaulted café room with shelves of bottles and jars along the back wall and a hanging oil lamp. About twenty men, many in hats and suits, sit at small wooden tables or stand near the walls, several holding glasses. A boy in a jacket sits in the left foreground.
Description, scan 3
A large group of men gathers in a whitewashed café room at Lapithos. Some sit on wooden chairs around small tables in the foreground, while others stand along the back beneath a hanging lamp. Shelves behind them hold bottles, jars and tins, and a glazed cabinet stands at the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Christoforos Kafenion. Erik Sjöqvist and John Lindros in the background. Rosa Lindros on the left in a white hat, between mayor Kaplanis and Dimitrakis. Lapithos. Copy photograph. From the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Lapithos, café. Sjöqvist and Lindros sit at a small table in the background.

Swedish, as on the record

Christoforos Kafenion. Erik Sjöqvist och John Lindros i bakgrunden. Rosa Lindros t.v. i vit hatt mellan borgmästare Kaplanis och Dimitrakis. Lapithos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Repro. Från svenska cypernexpedi- tionen. Lapithos, kafé. Sjöqvist och Lindros sitter vid ett litet bord i bak- grunden.

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)