Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·Csn0027

Children, a building and a school

Classroom with a bearded teacher in a long dark robe standing by a desk, and children seated on wooden benches.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0027. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A bearded man in a long dark robe stands at the left beside a wooden desk and a tall wooden frame with rods. About a dozen children sit on long wooden benches in rows, some looking towards the camera and two in the foreground blurred with movement. Wall charts hang on the plastered walls, light comes through a window and an arched opening at right, and the floor is tiled.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Children seated on wooden benches in a school room, with a bearded man in a long dark robe standing at the left.
Description, scan 2
Children sit in rows on long wooden benches in a whitewashed room with a beamed ceiling and a tiled floor. A bearded man in a long dark robe stands at the left beside a tall wooden rack and a dark wooden piece of furniture. Maps hang on the walls, and an arched window and an arched doorway light the room, while several children at the right are blurred from movement.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Picture showing children, a building and a school, C4349 534.

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4, C4349 534