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

Scope and Contents 177 x 115 mm. Autotype. A view looking along a street towards cathedral buildings, topped by minarets. Situated in the centre of Nicosia the Cathedral was adapted for use as a mosque after the Turkish Conquest of the island in 1570-71: 'It is fortunate that Moslem economy, or, perhaps, a lack of fanatical zeal, has preserved to us so much of this fine specimen of early Gothic architecture. The tower, which once crowned the edifice, has given place to galleried minarets; the old sonorous...

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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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172 x 129 mm. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Cyprus is believed to be the acknowledged birthplace of the Greek Goddess of Love and as such is recorded in Homer. A temple of the Goddess exists at Paphos and the beautiful locality Fontana Amorosa believed to be the goddess's bathing place'.

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209 x 158 mm. A view looking along a street in a Turkish Cypriot area, exact location unknown.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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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.

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. And main entrance of the Abbey of Bella Paise.

Scope and Contents 89 x 113 mm. Woodburytype. A fine half-length portrait of the bearded village priest of Avgoru: 'Touching the resources of a papa, or village priest, I was informed by a simple villager that the priest of his parish was a man of wealth, his income would not fall far short of ten shillings a week. Even during our brief stay in the place, we saw quite enough to satisfy us that the pastor represented in this illustration was held in high veneration among his flock, and, so far as we...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The lower portion is much older than the upper.

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205 x 151 mm. A view showing the great square tower of the castle of the Hospitallers at Colossi.

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A collection of loose prints. All are 250 x 200 mm unless otherwise stated. There are brief typed captions on the backs of the prints, some of which have been elaborated or amended for this catalogue. Some of the prints are organised by subject: 12 - 19 concern the Turkish invasion and its aftermath; 20-26 are images of people and places; 27-28 concern antiquities.

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150 x 205 mm. A view showing the decorated windows of the west front of the mosque of Saint Sophia, originally a cathedral, but adapted by the Turks as a mosque after the Turkish Conquest of 1570.

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152 x 205 mm. A view looking towards the west face of the Cathedral, 'a model of practical, solid, and at the same time elegant architecture' (Jeffery 1918, p.117) built in the 14th century and converted for use as a mosque after the Turkish Conquest of the island in 1570.

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177 x 115 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing men and women posed in the act of drawing water from a well.