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Link to larger image of RCS Y3018A/8
Classmark: RCS Y3018A/8
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: Selling bread
Description: A portrait of an old woman seated on a chair, with a basket on her lap...
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Classmark: RCS Y3018A/9
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: A Cyprian maid
Description: A sensitive portrait of a young woman wearing a striped dress and embroidered head scarf...
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3018A/10
Classmark: RCS Y3018A/10
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: Youth and old age
Description: A view showing a young Cypriot girl seated beside an aged relative in the open air...
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3018A/19
Classmark: RCS Y3018A/19
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: An aged Cypriote
Description: A view showing an aged woman with her arm round a young girl...
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3018A/22
Classmark: RCS Y3018A/22
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: Beggars
Description: A view showing a beggar woman and her two children standing in the street.
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3018B/9
Classmark: RCS Y3018B/9
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: Mountaineers
Description: A half-length portrait of a seated man from the village of Prodromos...
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Classmark: RCS Y3018B/10
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: Mountaineers
Description: A posed portrait of a man from Prodromos...
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3018B/27
Classmark: RCS Y3018B/27
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: A Cypriote boy
Description: A half-length portrait of a young boy...
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3018B/29
Classmark: RCS Y3018B/29
Originator: Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer
Title: Modern female attire in Cyprus
Description: A view showing two Cypriot women in skirts in the European style...
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3011V/7
Classmark: RCS Y3011V/7
Originator: Taunt, Henry William, 1842-1922, photographer
Title: Old woman
Description: Three quarter length portrait of an aged woman seated in the corner of a stone-walled room
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