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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [No print]. Missing. Looking due north: showing the place where St. Paul and St. Barnabas landed when they visited Cyprus. The ruins of the great temple of Jupiter lies just behind the square forest guards house. Traces of the ancient landing place still exist.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Part is now used as a prison.

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate.

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152 x 202 mm. Archbishop Makarios waves as he leaves Lancaster House, London, after the Cyprus agreement had been signed.

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151 x 202 mm. Archbishop Makarios is seen at the opening of the Cyprus conference at Lancaster House, London.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Quarter-plate. In one corner of the yard of St. Lazarus Church. This was used for tombs of consuls and their relatives, sea captains and merchants long before the British occupation. When St. Lazarus Church was attacked on one occasion some of these tomb stones were removed to the front of the Church, and under the plea of English the Church was saved from destruction.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Boys in the schoolroom include English, Turkish, Greek, and Armenian.

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Half-plate (landscape format). In the old playground.

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Half-plate (landscape format). In the new playground.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note rectangular plan of the forum: also bases of columns on the left and view looking towards Famagusta.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note rectangular plan of the forum : also bases of columns on the left and view looking towards Famagusta.

Scope and Contents 179 x 119 mm. Autotype. A view showing the west front of St Nicholas' Cathedral (Thomson's use of the name St Katherine for the church has not been found elsewhere, and he may be confusing the Church with St Katherine's, Nicosia, also turned into a mosque): 'The tower on the left is Turkish, and tells us at once that the splendid old cathedral pile has been transformed into a mosque; a motley range of modern hovels have also grown up under the shadow of the church. On the left, for...

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Quarter-plate. (On the way up).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Always to be seen with his net of cotton stuff from mid-April to mid-May, just when locusts are young before they get wings to fly. Government alter price from week to week, reducing it as locusts grow in size, and so made fewer to the oke. Now the price is 2/2 the oke (20 piastres). Oke equals two and four-fifths pounds. This man has caught one and a half today, i.e. about 3/-.

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185 x 121 mm. Autotype. A view showing camels seated in the street, with the British Commissioner's house on the left: '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 rule, in the strongly-built and barred storehouses that line both sides of the street' (Thomson 1879, vol.2, p.44).

Scope and Contents 180 x 119 mm. Autotype. A view looking along the wide, almost deserted street: 'The accompanying view is taken from the front of the Franciscan monastery, looking westward along the main street which runs parallel to the coast. The courts to the rear of the houses on the left face the sea ... The street looks deserted, and is invested with a silence strangely at variance with the business-like aspect and architecture of the town. During the day-time, however, busy traders may be seen...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Group of harvesters resting by the roadside near Famagusta Gate, Nicosia

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152 x 202 mm. Left to right are: Mr. Fatin Ruftu Zorlu, Turkish Minister of State and Foreign Affairs; Mr. Harold Macmillan, British Foreign Secretary; and Mr. Stephan Stephanopoulos, the Greek Foreign Minister.

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Quarter-plate. And main entrance of the Abbey of Bella Paise.

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Quarter-plate. A sacred spring : really a Phoenician cave tomb : now turned into a chapel by the Greek Church.

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173 x 169 mm. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'In this picture just inside the masonry enclave is the pillar to which St. Paul is reputed to have been bound and scourged when he visited Paphos to convert the Emperor Sergius Paulus to Christianity. The pillar stands in the grounds of Chrysopolitissa church'.

Scope and Contents 180 x 116 mm. Autotype. A fine landscape photograph showing pines on the slopes of Mount Troodos, with a figure standing beside a felled tree in the foreground: 'Cyprus was anciently famed for the luxuriance of its forests ... This timber has now, alas! almost wholly disappeared, at any rate from the level ground... ; but pine forests may, nevertheless, still be found in the remoter regions to the eastward, as well as on the higher elevations north and south of Mesorea. Many of the...

Scope and Contents 180 x 120 mm. Autotype. A view looking over the flat landscape towards distant mountains: 'In the middle-distance of this picture we see a portion of those limestone rocks which the ancients have honeycombed with their tombs, and Ktimu, the provincial capital, stands about half-a-mile further inland. The view shows us, not only the position of the town, but also the general appearance of a Cyprian plain, with its interspersed patches of fallow ground and cultivated fields' (Thomson 1879,...