Field photograph·C04349·1929–30

The village school at Ayia Irini

Village school classroom at Ayia Irini with a bearded teacher standing and children seated on wooden benches — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04349. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A bearded teacher in a long dark robe stands at the left of a plastered classroom, beside a wooden desk and a wall chart. About a dozen children sit on long wooden benches, several leaning forward and looking toward the camera. Light comes through an arched window on the right and a tall window at the back.

Other scans of this record (2)

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Description, scan 2: A whitewashed room with a beamed ceiling and an arched window, its walls hung with several wall maps. About fifteen children sit in rows on long wooden benches, many turned towards the camera, while a bearded man in dark clothing stands by a wooden desk at the left. A tall wooden frame stands beside him.
Description, scan 3: Interior of a whitewashed schoolroom with a timber-beamed ceiling, an arched window and an arched doorway. A bearded teacher in a long dark robe stands at the left beside a wall map, while about a dozen children sit on wooden benches with sloping desk tops. In the foreground a girl and a blurred boy lean on the front desk, and a girl in a headscarf sits in the middle row.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The village school, Ayia Irini.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Byskolan Ajia Irini. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen