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Field photograph·Csn0026·1930

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf digging at Stylli

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf digging at Stylli, leaning into a dark cutting in a bank
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0026. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a light pith helmet, light shirt and round glasses leans forward over the dark earth at the foot of a hollow cut into a bank. He sits on a pale block or ledge in the foreground, and loose light soil lies in front of him.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Crown Prince Gustav Adolf in a pith helmet and glasses, bending down to dig at Stylli.
Description, scan 2
A man in a pale pith helmet and round glasses sits on a pale stone block and leans forward, reaching down with one hand toward the ground. He wears a light shirt with a dark lower part. Behind him the dark soil of the dig fills the frame, with a pale rock face at the right edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf digging. Stylli.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Kronprins Gustav Adolf gräver. Stylli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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