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281. 10076.i.2, 2(44)

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10076.i.2, 2(44)
Title:
The main street in Limassol. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards heavy stone warehouses, with a group of camels in the foreground: 'In this spacious thoroughfare we find evidence of the prosperity of the town, and at the same time discover indications of the insecurity which prevailed under Turkish ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

282. 10076.i.2, 2(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(45)
Title:
Famagosta. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across fields towards the city: 'It is a place of ruins, a city of the dead, in which the traveller is surprised to encounter a living tenant. It, however, affords shelter to some six hundred Turks, whose wretched abodes are found scattered am...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

283. 10076.i.2, 2(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(46)
Title:
Famagosta harbour. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the ramparts overlooking the harbour: 'The work of fortifying this stronghold has been carried out with a thoroughness which has defied the inroads of time, so that while the whole town has been laid waste, its outer wall still remains i...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

284. 10076.i.2, 2(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(47)
Title:
Ruins at Famagosta. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography 'This view was taken at Famagosta from the inner side of the moat and opposite the gateway of the north-eastern angle of the wall. The prominent ruin here depicted was singled out as a good example of the present condition of a multitude of churches that were al...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

285. 10076.i.2, 2(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(48)
Title:
The front of St. Katherine's Church (now a mosque) [sic], Famagosta. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the façade, with minaret to the left. The caption is incorrect: the view in fact shows the Church of St Nicholas, later the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque. In the left foreground 'stands one of the most imposing specimens of the present architecture of the pl...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

286. 10076.i.2, 2(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(49)
Title:
Entrance to the Cathedral, Famagosta. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view from the left looking towards the triple-arched entrance to the former Cathedral Church of St Nicholas, later the Lala Mustafa Mosque.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

287. 10076.i.2, 2(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(50)
Title:
A rock-cut tomb, Famagosta. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Interior view, looking towards the entrance, of the a rock-cut tomb, with a figure seated in the niche in the foreground: 'The interior is nearly square, and in the sides and back wall are recesses designed for the stowage of bodies; while above these again are...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

288. 10076.i.2, 2(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(51)
Title:
Group at Avgoru. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait group of a man, women and children, in a house at Avgorou, 'a small village half-way between Larnaca and Famagosta, and about five miles inland...The interiors of the dwellings at Avgoru are poor, and their earthen floors are partly taken up in the storage o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

289. 10076.i.2, 2(52a)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(52a)
Title:
The village priest, Avgoru. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of the priest at Avgorou, seated with arms folded, looking off to the left: 'At Avgorou, even the village priest provides his own subsistence by the work of his own hands, although he also enjoys a small, fluctuating stipend in the shape of offer...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

290. 10076.i.2, 2(52b)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(52b)
Title:
A Cypriote boy. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of a young boy, the son of the priest of Avgorou seen in print 52a.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item