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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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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,...

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159 x 225 mm. A head and shoulders studio portrait of Archbishop Makarios in clerical robes. The title is taken from a handwritten caption on the reverse of the photograph.

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Half-plate (landscape format). At Salamis close to the Temple of Jupiter is one of the many plantations under the Forestry Department. Note galvanised iron windmill (made in Toronto) of a type common in Cyprus, used to pump up water from wells.

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Half-plate. A junction of roads to top of Troados : A.K. Boill, Principal Forest Officer, returning from Troados. Asbestos mines are a little above where this view is taken.

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174 x 113 mm. Woodburytype. A very finely composed landscape study of the ruins, with a figure in white in the foreground: 'The most imposing ruin to be found in Neo Paphos is represented in the photograph before us, but the ground everywhere is strewn with the shafts, the capitals, and the bases of pillars, and with heaps of stones, among which may be seen bits of old pottery mingled with fragments of sculptured marble' (Thomson 1879, vol.2, p.40).

Scope and Contents 182 x 114 mm. Autotype. A view looking along the stony seashore towards the Marina in the distance with a man standing beside cactus bushes in the foreground: 'Although simple in its elements the scene is one of the most attractive in the neighbourhood of Larnaca. The rich green thickets of cacti harmonize well with the warm hue of the shore, the undulating, ever-changing line of clear blue sea; while the mid-space is dotted with pale green shrubs, and distant groves of date-palms wave...

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate.

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Showing portion of the hill behind, from which the copper is supposed to have been extracted, although the ancient workings have never been found in this part of the island as they have been in Paphos district at Lymnae, where Roman timbering has been found in the shafts.

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180 x 120 mm. Autotype. A view showing two Cypriots standing among the rocky scrubland at the summit of Mount Troodos.

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Quarter-plate. From roof of entrance gateway, near Larnaca

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A religious and political centre dating to the 7th century B.C. at the end of the Roman era. Among the ruins in the area are various building remains, baths and palestra. The sanctuary of Apollo was destroyed by earthquake in the late 4th century A.D.