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Field photograph·C01025

Alfred Westholm, Erik Sjöqvist and others in Nicosia, snow

Street in Nicosia with an old car and a group of adults and children standing beside it, patches of snow on the ground
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01025. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A wet, snowy street lined with plastered buildings, with an old car with a dark body and tall bonnet at the centre. Several adults and children stand beside and in front of it, some in long coats and hats, and a boy in knee-length shorts stands at the right. Trees, a low building and a utility pole appear in the background.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Group of people beside an early car on a muddy, snowy street in Nicosia, with a child in a beret in frontFull resolution
  • Group of people beside an early car on a snowy street in Nicosia
Description, scan 2
A group of about eight people stands in a muddy street beside an early car with a number plate and a Volvo badge on the radiator. On the left, a man in a light coat and a woman in a dark coat and hat stand by a whitewashed building with shuttered windows, while a man in a hat and suit stands beside a small child in a beret and coat on the right. Patches of snow lie along the verge, with a wall and gate behind, a building with a rooftop ornament, and bare trees beyond.
Description, scan 3
A boxy early car with a radiator grille, headlamps and a number plate stands on a muddy road with patches of snow. On the left, a young man in a light coat and a woman in a dark coat and hat stand by the pavement, with a boy behind the car and a small child at the edge. On the right, a man in a hat and suit stands beside a small child in a coat and cap and a boy in knickerbockers, with a low white-roofed building and trees behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Copy photograph. Nicosia. Swedish Institute, snow. Volvo. Alfred Westholm, Erik Sjöqvist, a woman who is possibly Vivi Gjerstad, three children (perhaps Stefan Gjerstad) and possibly Toulis Souidos.

Swedish, as on the record

Repro. Från svenska cypernexpedi- tionen. Nicosia. Svenska institutet, snö.

Swedish, as on the record

Svenska institutet, snö. Volvo. Alfred Westholm, Erik Sjöqvist, en kvinna som möjligtvis är Vivi Gjerstad, tre barn (kanske Stefan Gjerstad) och möjligtvis Toulis Souidos. Nicosia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").