Field photograph·C01002

Einar Gjerstad at work in Nicosia

Einar Gjerstad seated at a wooden desk in an office room in Nicosia, with a door and coat behind him.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01002. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a dark jacket and tie sits at a light wooden desk covered with papers, small boxes, a bottle and black trays. Behind him a shelf holds books, a coat hangs beside a vertical plank door, and a machine sits on a low chest of drawers at left. A fabric-shaded pendant lamp hangs from the ceiling in the bare, whitewashed room.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Einar Gjerstad seated at a large wooden desk in an office room, with a bookshelf and a door beside him.
Description, scan 2
A man in a jacket and tie sits behind a large plain wooden desk in a whitewashed room with bare floorboards. Papers, small boxes, a bottle and two wooden trays with compartments lie on the desk, and a stack of boxes sits on its right. A wooden cabinet with drawers stands at the left, a typewriter sits on top of it, and a shelf of books is behind the man.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Einar Gjerstad at work in Nicosia: a man at a desk by a door.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").