Field photograph·C06263·1929–30

The expedition visits Erik, Gjerstad family on the balcony at Ayia Irini

The Gjerstad family on a balcony at Ayia Irini, a striped cloth draped over the railing. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C06263. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Six people stand on a small wooden balcony with a tiled overhanging roof, looking toward the camera. A man in a dark suit leans on the iron railing beside a striped cloth draped over it, and a woman in a light dress stands in the centre with two children. A man in a white shirt and tie stands in the doorway at right, with rough stone walls and a dark arch below.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Six people, including two children, stand on a wooden balcony with an iron railing at the front of a stone building with a tiled roof. A checked blanket hangs over the railing in front of them. Behind the balcony a doorway opens into the dark interior, and a low stone wall runs along the left side with open country beyond.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Ayia Irini. The expedition visits Erik. The Gjerstad family on the balcony.

Swedish, as on the record

Ajia Irini. Expeditionen besöker Erik. Familjen Gjerstad på balkongen.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").