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

Scope and Contents 200 x 171 mm. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'This monastery was first built in 488 on funds made available by Byzantine Emperor Zeno after had had [sic] been presented with the gospel found with the body of St. Barnabas in the vicinity. It was burned down in 648 by the Saracens, and was rebuilt in about 900 A.D. Later various repairs were undertaken, of which the most important was carried out in 1756. In this picture the monastery church. East of the Church and...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The flying buttresses, seen as we stand upon the roof of side aisle : Famagusta, Cyprus.

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Half-plate. Viewed with our backs to Lusignan Palace.

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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). [No print]. Missing. Looking due north: showing the place where St. Paul and St. Barnabas landed when they visited Cyprus. The ruins of the great temple of Jupiter lies just behind the square forest guards house. Traces of the ancient landing place still exist.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note rectangular plan of the forum: also bases of columns on the left and view looking towards Famagusta.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note rectangular plan of the forum : also bases of columns on the left and view looking towards Famagusta.

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 (landscape format). Always to be seen with his net of cotton stuff from mid-April to mid-May, just when locusts are young before they get wings to fly. Government alter price from week to week, reducing it as locusts grow in size, and so made fewer to the oke. Now the price is 2/2 the oke (20 piastres). Oke equals two and four-fifths pounds. This man has caught one and a half today, i.e. about 3/-.

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Half-plate (landscape format). At Salamis close to the Temple of Jupiter is one of the many plantations under the Forestry Department. Note galvanised iron windmill (made in Toronto) of a type common in Cyprus, used to pump up water from wells.

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

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Qaurter-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [No print]. Missing.

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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.