Scope and Contents 176 x 115 mm. Woodburytype. A view looking along a narrow street with overhanging balconies. With two men in a doorway in the foreground: 'The streets of Larnaca are narrow, and, as a rule, devoid of pavement, recalling in their general aspect the older quarters of Alexandria, or Cairo. The houses, however, are more European in style than those of Egypt ... In front, over the central doorway, projects a verandah, closed in around, and so fitted with Venetian shutters as to admit the...

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177 x 115 mm. Woodburytype. A view looking towards the 10th or 11th century church with finely carved gravestones standing in the shade of two trees in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 216 x 172 mm. Showing fishermen at work aboard their boat with the Larnaca waterfront in the background. The caption on the reverse of the photograph continues: '... on the southern shores of Cyprus. The site of Larnaca dates back to several hundred years B.C. when the Greeks established Kition which later (12th century) became one of the city kingdoms of the island. The most famous son of Kitium is the founder of the Stoic School of philosophy in Athens Zeno of Kitium. Here also...

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

Scope and Contents 180 x 119 mm. Autotype. A view looking along the Larnaca (also known as Lárnax) waterfront with balconied houses looking onto jetties and quays: 'Rude fetties invade the sea, while the shore bristles with wooden piles, the wrecks of landing stages, or waterside cafes. Larnaca, indeed, looks as if it had been groping its way seawards, with a thousand antennae, in search of purer air or social reform. Nevertheless, its old-world aspect, its rich colours, its quaint architecture, and even...

Scope and Contents 172 x 67 mm. Autotype. A view looking along the northern portion of the Marine showing waterfront houses: 'When the island was transferred to British rule speculators flocked to Larnaca, and companies were started in London for the immediate development of Cyprus. The place was to be raised from the dust, and become an Eastern El Dorado. The result was that rents for such houses as are pictured in the photograph rose from forty to three hundred or four hundred pounds a year' (Thomson...

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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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Title also written in Greek.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). About three - quarter mile inland. In the hollow immediately in foreground was the ancient harbour of Chittium (modern Kition : Old testament Ships of Chittum). Slipways for the galleys can be traced by the eye of the imaginative antiquarian. In foreground is a plantation of young bamboo trees; on top of the front rise are some date palms.

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156 x 211 mm. A view showing the gnarled olive tree in the garden of the 18th century consulate of the English Levant Company in Old Larnaca where Cobham lived for much of his time in Cyprus.

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A panorama composed of 6 joined prints measuring 1092 x 151 mm. A small part of the caption is illegible having been inked over. The panorama is taken from a pier in the harbour looking back towards the waterfront. At the left (south) are waterfront houses and jetties with a landing wharf piled high with barrels and sacks of provisions in the centre. At the right, four soldiers on a jetty watch the photographer. Photograph by E. Carletti and Co.

Scope and Contents 85 x 107 mm. Woodburytype. A portrait of an old woman seated on a chair, with a basket on her lap: 'In the features of this old dame, who earns her living by selling bread in Larnaca, there still linger traces of youthful comeliness. Her thin locks are silvered with age, and the years, as they dragged heavily along, have furrowed her brow. Yet her eye is clear and bright and wears a look of calm contentment ... She might, indeed, pass for an old Scotch crone ...' (Thomson 1879, vol.1,...

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Quarter-plate. Boys of the Greek Elementary School of Larnaca (attached to a church in similar way to old voluntary schools in England). Beside the entry stands Little John a deacon of the Church. Tomb of St. Lazarus (Raising of Lazarus) is in this Church.

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

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. From roof of entrance gateway, near Larnaca