Field photograph·Csn0889·1927–1931
Loading Cyprus produce at Famagusta
Description
A large cargo ship is moored at a quay, with masts, rigging and a derrick above its deck. Stacked crates are being hoisted from the ship and loaded onto a flatbed lorry and a two-wheeled cart on the quayside. Several men in dark coats and light shirts handle the crates, and another loaded lorry stands at the left.
English, as on the record
LOADING CYPRUS PRODUCE AT FAMAGUSTA "It abounds in every production of nature, and bears great quantities of corn, figs, olives, oranges, lemons. Dates and indeed of every fruit seen in these climates: it nourishes great numbers of goats, sheep, pigs and oxen, of which latter it has at times exported supplies to Malta. Its principal commerce consists in cotton, wool and silk." William Turner-1815 (Journal of a Tour in the Levant)
English, as on the record
LOADING CYPRUS PRODUCE AT FAMAGUSTA "It abounds in every production of nature, and bears great quantities of corn, figs, olives, oranges, lemons. Dates and indeed of every fruit seen in these climates: it nourishes great numbers of goats, sheep, pigs and oxen, of which latter it has at times exported supplies to Malta. Its principal commerce consists in cotton, wool and silk." William Turner-1815 (Journal of a Tour in the Levant)