Field photograph·C02789·1930

Work in progress with men and women at Mersinaki

Men and women digging in an excavation at Mersinaki, with a cart on rails in the foreground — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02789. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Many workers, men in hats and dark clothes and women in headscarves and long dresses, dig with spades in a deep cut in dry, stony hillside soil. A wooden cart stands on rails in the foreground, and a small hut sits on the slope above. Some workers stand on the upper level while others work at the foot of the cut.

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Description, scan 2: Workers dig in a deep excavation cut into a dry, stony hillside. Men and women with spades, hoes and picks work along the sides of the trench, and a wheeled cart stands on rails in the foreground. A small wooden shelter sits on the slope above, and a boy stands at the centre of the group.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress with men and women at Mersinaki.

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild med män och kvinnor. Mersinaki. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen