Field photograph·C01679·1929

The Gjerstad family at Petra Tou Limniti

The Gjerstad family seated among rocks at Petra tou Limniti, with shrubby hillside behind them. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01679. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a wide-brimmed hat and knee socks sits on a rocky outcrop, smiling, with a boy in a short-sleeved shirt seated behind him. In the foreground a woman in a light dress leans forward over the stones, reaching toward the ground, while dense shrubs fill the hillside behind them.

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Description, scan 2: A smiling man in a hat and knee socks sits on a rocky outcrop, with a boy seated behind him and a woman in a patterned dress leaning forward over the stones in the foreground. Dense scrubby bushes rise up the slope behind them, and part of another person is visible at the right edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The Gjerstad family, Petra tou Limniti.

Swedish, as on the record

Familjen Gjerstad. Petra Tou Limniti. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen