Field photograph·C01045

Einar Gjerstad sends the gold box to Sweden, Nicosia

Einar Gjerstad in a tweed overcoat and hat, carrying a box, beside a car and a carved wooden doorway in Nicosia.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01045. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a tweed overcoat and felt hat stands on a dusty street holding a wooden box with a printed label, tied with cord. Behind him a car's radiator stands beside a white wall and a dark wooden door with a carved and scrolled panel above it. A second man in a hat stands at the left edge beside the car, and part of another person is visible at the right edge.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Three men and a boy outside a doorway; the central man in a tweed overcoat holds a lettered box beside a car.Full resolution
Description, scan 2
A man in a tweed overcoat and fedora stands in the centre holding a box with painted lettering by its handle. At the left edge, a man in a dark coat and hat holds the side of a wooden crate beside a car with a radiator grille. On the right, a boy in a jacket stands with his hands in his pockets in front of an ornate ironwork panel above an open wooden door in a pale wall.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Einar Gjerstad, the gold box is sent to Sweden. Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 5

Swedish, as on the record

Einar Gjerstad, guldlådan sänds till Sverige. Nicosia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen