Group at Avgoru [? Avgorou]
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Contributors
Cobham, Claude Delaval, 1842-1915
Creation Date
2003-10-24
Publication Date
2004-11-05Publisher
Royal Commonwealth Society Library. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge.
Language
en_GB
Type
Image
Metadata
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Unknown author (2004). Group at Avgoru [? Avgorou] [digital image]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/961
Description
165 x 116 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing a Cypriot family posed for the camera inside their home. The photograph appears in Thomson's 'Through Cyprus with the camera, in the autumn of 1878' (vol.2, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1879). Thomson wrote: 'The interiors of the dwellings at Avgoru are poor, and their earthen floors are partly taken up in the storage of produce; nevertheless, their occupants are respectably clothed, and seem to turn their labour to good account, for there is an absence of that squalor and misery which we meet with among the poor in more highly-civilized communities' (vol.2, p.51).
Spatial Coverage
Famagusta (Asia, Cyprus); Gazimagusa (Asia, Northern Cyprus)
Temporal Coverage
start=1878; end=1878; scheme=DCTERMS.W3CDTF
Relationships
Host Item: RCS Photograph Collection, Cobham Collection, Y3018B.
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