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Field photograph·C00903

Stefan and Martin Gjerstad, Nicosia

Two young children in a garden in Nicosia, one standing and one sitting in a shallow pit, with a white two-storey house behind
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00903. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A small girl in a checked dress stands on the left, and a boy sits in a shallow pit on the right, with loose planks and a tin can on the ground. Behind them stands a white two-storey house with a tiled roof, balconies and shuttered windows, surrounded by palm trees and low garden plants.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Two young children in a garden in Nicosia, one standing and one sitting by a small dug hole, with a white two-storey house behind.
Description, scan 2
A young child in a checked dress stands on the left, holding a small object, while a second child sits at the edge of a shallow hole in the ground on the right. Behind them is a white two-storey house with a tiled roof, balconies and shuttered windows, framed by palm trees. Low plants, scattered wooden planks and a small metal cylinder lie on the bare earth.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Stefan and Martin Gjerstad, Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").