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158 x 111 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing a group of villagers seated in a paved courtyard in front of a stonewalled house (the principal house in the village). The village is near the town of Paphos. Thomson states that the purpose of the gathering was twofold: to welcome strangers to the village and to discuss a point of law concerning a stray herd of goats (Thomson 1879, vol.2, p.38).

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152 x 211 mm. A view showing intricately carved stone decorations.

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159 x 205 mm. A view showing carved animals and vegetation on a stone (?) pulpit.

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202 x 150 mm. A view showing two stone columns at Paphos.

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205 x 149 mm. A posed group of mainly women and children paid to dig in the archaeological sites in the area.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). New Paphos town in distance. Note near ruins, Temple of Venus is 9 miles away

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170 x 200 mm. Showing Archbishop Makarios and two other priests conducting a service in the ornate interior of the monastery church.

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204 x 151 mm. A view showing the results of excavation at the Temple of Aphrodite at Kouklia near Paphos, with mounds of excavated earth in the foreground and the remains of walls and buildings beyond.

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Title also written in Greek.

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An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.

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204 x 154 mm. A view showing a stone monument carved with Greek characters at Paphos.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Chrysopotitisa Church near Paphos. In the foreground I have placed a nougani, one of the sleighs for the threshing floor, so that you may see the way in which the chipped flints are set on the underside to cut and tear the straw.

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226 x 172 mm. A view looking across a stream towards the Church of St. Barnabas and St. Hilarion. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Peristerona Church of St. Barnabas and St. Hilarion, one of the most picturesque Byzantine (AD 956) buildings in Cyprus. The minaret next to it reveals the peaceful co-existence of the Greeks and Turks in Cyprus.'

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An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). A little beyond Paphos Lighthouse.

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178 x 116 mm. Autotype. A view showing the entrance to rock tombs carved into a low rock-face on the plain of Paphos.

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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 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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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).

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171 x 226 mm. A view looking out from the tombs towards the supporting Doric columns of the chambers. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Cut in the Rock the roof usually supported by doric columns are the imposing 'Tombs of the Kings' at Kato Paphos. They in their magnitude as to construction and beauty form an ever-lasting stamp in the Hellenistic tradition in architecture, recollecting the famous rock tombs of Lindos in Rhodes',