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Field photograph·C01124

Excursion to Limassol, stop at Skarinou

Seated and standing people outside a whitewashed arched café at Skarinou, with posters and café chairs
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01124. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A group of people sits and stands under a whitewashed arched recess in front of a café doorway. Wooden chairs and small tables with white cloths are set out on the paved ground, and posters of a woman and of cars hang on the wall above them. A boy in a light coat and white cap sits near the centre, and a child sits at the next table to the right.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Several people seated and standing under a whitewashed arched veranda at Skarinou, with wooden chairs and tables with white cloths.
Description, scan 2
Several people sit and stand under a whitewashed arched veranda, with wooden ladder-back chairs and small tables with white cloths in front of a building. A woman in a cloche hat and dark coat stands at left, and a child in a light coat and white hat stands in the foreground beside a man in a fedora. Posters of motor cars hang on the wall behind them.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Excursion to Limassol, stop at Skarinou. The Gjerstad children Martin and Stefan, possibly Gudrun Atterman and Alfred Westholm. Perhaps Erik Sjöqvist is also sitting at the table, and an unknown man. At the next table sits a man and a child.

Swedish, as on the record

Utflykt till Limassol, halt i Skarinou. Gjerstadbarnen Martin och Stefan, möjligtvis Gudrun Atterman och Alfred Westholm. Kanske är det även Erik Sjöqvist som sitter vid bordet och en okänd man. Vid bordet bredvid sitter en man och ett barn.

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)