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Every visitor to Venice must buy corn from a rich peddler and feed the pigeons in front of St. Mark's Cathedral. Mr. Carpenter does his duty To drift through the canals of Venice is to know another side of life. Gondolas are hitched to posts in front of palaces and above dreamy eyed Venetian girls lean out on flower laden balconies ; "Taxi?" At your hotel door is the waiting gondola or Venetian taxi, the gondolier in his wide black hat, white coat and beaming smile.
Delivering flour in Venice. There is an ambulance, fire department (never used) and police wagon? in gondola style The Bridge of Sighs over which prisoners were led to their execution in the prison on the right ; Every visitor to Venice must buy corn from a rich peddler and feed the pigeons in front of St. Mark's Cathedral. Mr. Carpenter does his duty.
[Frank Carpenter in a gondola, Venice] [Photographer with camera and pigeons in front of St. Mark's Basilica, Venice]
[Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration photographer, full-length portrait, holding camera, standing with his foot on the running board of a Treasury Department Procurement Division Fuel Yard truck, Washington, D.C.] / photo by Carl Mydans.
"Wheeled cathedral" pays a visit. The interior of the chapel car "St. Paul" which is being exhibited here ... / photo by F.P. Burke, Chicago.
Stratford upon Avon, England. American servicemen practicing at a traditional dart board in an old hotel, the White Swan, taken over by the American Red Cross. Left to right: Private First Class Michael Ryan, of Edgewood, Pennsylvania; Private First Class Paul Smith, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Private Matthew Stampfl, of Pittsburgh
Negro steelworkers. One of the many Negro operators of narrow guage locomotives that haul ingot and billet steel in the yards of a large East Coast steel mill is shown in the cab of his locomotive. Bethlehem Steel
Baltimore, Maryland. Employees of the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard hurrying to catch the six a.m. ferry across Curtis Bay to work. The street is lined with their parked cars
[Photographer with camera and pigeons in front of St. Mark's Basilica, Venice] [Legs and feet of photographer with camera and pigeons in front of St. Mark's Basilica, Venice]
Mr. Carpenter enters his private car for a sail through the canals of Venice Pigeons and photographers work together in the Piazza of St. Mark, Venice. The pigeons get the corn, the camera men the money ; "Taxi?" At your hotel door is the waiting gondola or Venetian taxi, the gondolier in his wide black hat, white coat and beaming smile.
Summary
Photographs show Frank Carpenter in a gondola, carrying a camera; a photographer photographing the pigeons in front of St Mark's Basilica, and a gondolier in his gondola, Venice, Italy.
On page: no. 1550 (top image) and no. 1551 (middle image). Bottom image not numbered but matches no. 1549 on previous page LC-USZC4-14935).
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [147].
Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26.
Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
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