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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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145 x 90 mm. This school was founded by Arthur and is still prospering. The print has a reference on the reverse '10H/16/1.'

Raynor Arthur was transferred from Nigeria to Cyprus as an administrative officer in 1937; he was appointed Commissioner in 1947 and Chief Commissioner in 1948.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Showing the Khan - stopping place for mules, carriages, etc.

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176 x 115 mm. Autotype. A view looking over the flat-roofed houses perched on the steep mountainside south of Levka.

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176 x 115 mm. Autotype. A view looking over the flat-roofed houses perched on the steep mountainside south of Levka.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). 'The leper hospital is one and a half miles from Nicosia. All lepers of Cyprus are segregated here: distant village Eylanja built against the rocks: white church where St. Paul is said to have preached'.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Quarter-plate. [Fogged].

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Half-plate.

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Half-plate.

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Half-plate (landscape format). About five miles from Morphon. The port of Karavastasi and Pomos point in the distance. Turkish hawkers in the foreground.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Under an old olive tree.

Scope and Contents 171 x 113 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing a group of Cypriot men in various attitudes. A carefully composed group which illustrates Thomson's perfectionist approach to his craft: 'The accompanying group was taken in front of the ancient Cathedral (now a mosque) of St Sophia. A friendly-disposed crowd of spectators had gathered round the mosque to witness the process of photographing the exterior of the building, and while the pious moslems held themselves aloof, a large number of...

Scope and Contents 182 x 119 mm. Autotype. A view looking over the town from the outer ramparts, with palms and small houses in the foreground and minarets on the horizon: 'Nicosia may be seen to greatest advantage from the summit of its wall. In the distance rises a forest of tapering minarets, that contrast well with graceful palms, and with the undulating lines of foliage that mark the sites of the gardens of the metropolis. The atmosphere, obscured by a heat-haze, imparts a soft, but indescribable,...

Scope and Contents 180 x 117 mm. Autotype. A view looking between clumps of palm trees towards minarets in the distance: 'These heavenward-pointing spires of a crushed and heavy laden race vie with Nature in adorning the scene ... The photograph affords a most attractive glimpse of the capital, which here appears to be a perfect garden of cultivation. The picture faithfully represents a portion of the outskirts of the town, but many quarters are to be found in which desolation reigns supreme' (Thomson...

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Half-plate. Part of stele of a dead lady: cypriot stone: traces of red colouring : lips : griffon spotted with red : perhaps 3rd Century B.C. Below this I have placed a marble winged cupid sleeping upon a goat wine-skin - holds in right hand a cup. Found in ploughed field near Paphos.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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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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176 x 120 mm. Autotype. A view showing two Cypriots standing on the city walls with hills and the road from Nicosia visible in the distance.