Field photograph·C00835

The Swedish Institute, Nicosia

The Swedish Institute building in Nicosia, a long whitewashed house with shuttered windows on a dirt street.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00835. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A long, low whitewashed building with a tiled roof and shuttered windows stands along an unpaved street. Two people, a woman and a man, stand near the central doorway, and a person sits in an arched recess on the left. A wrought-iron railing and a wooden gate front the building on the right, and a second tiled-roof house is visible at the far left.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • The Swedish Institute in Nicosia, a long white single-storey building with shuttered windows, with two people at its doorway.
Description, scan 2
A long white single-storey building with a tiled roof and wooden shuttered windows stands along a dirt street. Two people stand in front of a panelled door in a decorated doorway, and a third figure is partly visible in an arched entrance on the left. An iron railing and a low wall run along the front of the building on the right, beside a wooden gate.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The Swedish Institute, Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Svenska institutet. Nicosia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen