Field photograph·C00996

The Swedish Institute at Nicosia, a man in the doorway

A single-storey rendered building with shuttered windows and a man standing in the doorway, Nicosia
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00996. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A long, single-storey plastered building with a tiled roof, several shuttered windows and a panelled wooden door with a decorative fanlight. A man in a light suit stands in the open doorway at the left, and a wooden gate and a low railed fence with a stone base run along the front on the right. A utility pole rises beside the building and the unpaved street in front is strewn with stones and debris.

Other scan of this record (1)

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Description, scan 2
A long, single-storey plastered building with a tiled roof, shuttered windows and a wooden door with a grilled fanlight. A man in a light coat stands in the doorway on the left. In front are iron railings, a wooden gate, a utility pole, rocks and scattered debris on the dirt road.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The Swedish Institute. A man in the doorway. Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Svenska institutet. En man i dörröppningen. Nicosia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").