Field photograph·C00484·1929

The square at Polis, with a Volvo (?)

Town square with a stone well-house on columns, a group of people, and an open-topped car beside the buildings. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00484. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A dusty town square with a pale stone well-head under a canopy of arches on four slender columns, where a boy is drawing water. Men in shirts and hats stand in groups around it, and an open-topped car with a spare tyre on its side is parked at left beside a second car at right. Two-storey buildings with balconies, shutters and arched doorways line the square.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: A white stone canopy on four columns stands in the middle of a paved square, with a boy by its base. An open touring car with a spare tyre is parked at left, and a dark car sits behind the canopy at right. Two-storey houses with balconies and shuttered windows line the square, and men, a boy and a woman in dark dress stand and sit around the cars.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The square. Volvo ? Polis.

Swedish, as on the record

Torget. Volvo ? Polis Svenska Cypernexpeditionen