Field photograph·C00815·1927–28

Departure from Lapithos

People loading stacked cardboard boxes into a covered cart on a dirt road at Lapithos. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–28. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00815. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Stacks of cardboard boxes stand against a rough plastered wall on the left. Several men bend forward at the back of a covered wooden cart or carriage, while others stand in its open rear, and a woman holding a baby watches from the right beside a bank of vegetation. A house and trees rise behind the road.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Several men bend over and push at a heavy load at the back of a covered cart, while stacks of cardboard-coloured boxes stand against a plastered wall on the left. Behind them, a man in a light suit, a boy in a cap and other men look on from the cart's opening. On the right, a woman holds a small child beside a low bank of vegetation.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Departure. Lapithos.

Swedish, as on the record

Avfärden. Lapithos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen