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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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226 x 170 mm. A view looking down on the renovated amphitheatre. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Soli Theatre (rebuilt), overlooking the Morphou bay, where the jetty for the export of ores of the Cyprus Mines Corporation. The foundation of this city is attributed to the famous Athenian statesman Solon'.

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175 x 114 mm. Autotype. A view showing the elaborate entrance to the church with a few Cypriots around the doorway: 'Hard by the Cathedral of St Sophia stands a church once dedicated to St. Nicholas, but now used as a granary, whose richly-sculptured portal, the subject of this photograph, is one of the finest examples of its kind in Cyprus' (Thomson 1879, vol.1, p.15). The building, in a sad state of disrepair in this photograph, has now been completely demolished.

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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Half-plate (landscape format). Boys in the schoolroom include English, Turkish, Greek, and Armenian.

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Half-plate (landscape format). In the old playground.

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Half-plate (landscape format). In the new playground.

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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.

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Half-plate (landscape format). Looking from south-east by south. Shows Cathedral of St. Sophia, Nicosia. On extreme right note church of Kaimakti village : portion of city walls (stone faced): the northern range of hills at back, immediately behind Kaimakti is the hill of Buffavents which has ruins of a castle on top.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Looking from south-east by south. Shows Cathedral of St. Sophia, Nicosia. On extreme right note church of Kaimakti village : portion of city walls (stone faced): the northern range of hills at back, immediately behind Kaimakti is the hill of Buffavents which has ruins of a castle on top.

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