Bobbed hair has caught the youth of Roumania and jazz music was not far behind. Here is an aristocratic maid in peasant costume at a wayside resort in Roumania In Europe hotel porters are powerful friends or enemies. The kodak made friends with this czar at the palace hotel in Sinaia ; In the market place of Bucharest care is taken to weigh out articles sold.

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Photographs show scenes in Romania including: Peasant woman and girl with baskets and upper class girl with woman next to railroad car; hotel porter in uniform at the Palace Hotel, Sinaia, and a man weighing objects in an outdoor market in Bucharest.

Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26.

On page: no. 1289 (top image) and no. 1290 (bottom left image) and no. 1291 (bottom right image).

In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [12].

Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.

Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

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railroad cars romania women clothing and dress hotel porters sinaia markets bucharest gelatin silver prints group portraits portrait photographs crișana romania hair youth roumania jazz music jazz music maid peasant costume peasant costume wayside resort wayside resort europe hotel porters europe hotel porters friends enemies kodak czar palace palace hotel market place market place care bucharest care articles vintage dresses russia history of russia lot 5808 carpenter collection frank g carpenter frank g frank george carpenter photo ultra high resolution high resolution old pictures russian revolution library of congress
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01/01/1923
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Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924, photographer
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railroad cars romania women clothing and dress hotel porters sinaia markets bucharest gelatin silver prints group portraits portrait photographs crișana romania hair youth roumania jazz music jazz music maid peasant costume peasant costume wayside resort wayside resort europe hotel porters europe hotel porters friends enemies kodak czar palace palace hotel market place market place care bucharest care articles vintage dresses russia history of russia lot 5808 carpenter collection frank g carpenter frank g frank george carpenter photo ultra high resolution high resolution old pictures russian revolution library of congress