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Field photograph·C00908

Christmas Eve 1927, breakfast table, Nicosia

Christmas Eve 1927, breakfast table, Nicosia: seven people seated around a table laid with fruit and candles
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00908. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Seven people sit around a round table draped with a white cloth with lace edging. A large dish of fruit and berries, a candelabra with lit candles and small plates stand on it. Striped curtains, paper garlands and a candlelit tree hung with small flags decorate the room, and a bookcase and a sofa with cushions stand behind.

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  • Christmas Eve breakfast table in Nicosia, with seven people seated around it in a decorated room
Description, scan 2
Seven people sit around a round table draped with a white cloth with lace edging, in a room decorated for Christmas. A large dish of fruit stands in the centre with plates and lit candles beside it. Behind them a small Christmas tree with candles and paper decorations stands near striped curtains, and fringed paper garlands hang from the ceiling.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Christmas Eve 1927, breakfast table, Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Julafton 1927, frukostbordet Nicosia Svenska Cypernexpeditionen