A driver of the old school. He hopes to die before the inartistic automobile supplants his elegant victoria with prancing teams of greys, on the boulevards of Buckharest [i.e. Bucharest] A corner of Sinia the smart summer colony of Roumania high in the pine clad Carpathian mountains ; Roumanian girls are good to look at but they prefer their Latin brothers to the cold Anglo-Saxon.

American ambulances for Balkans. The type of car that the American Red Cross is using at its various hospitals in the Balkans. Answering an emergency request from the Roumanian government recently the Red Cross gathered twenty of these ambulances from its hospitals in one day and sent them with the Roumanian Army into Budapest. This picture was taken on the docks at Salonica, Greece

"American Street" Pirot? Serbia. Pirot is a grateful Serbian municipality. This town named one of its most important thoroughfares, American street, in recognition of the aid it received from the American Red Cross. In the picture are Lieut. Clinton J. Baker, a Red Cross worker of Boston, and three of his Serbian aides. The little girl holding the goat is the daughter of the mayor of the town

A newsgirl of Bucharest. She has never had a course in salesmanship but she knows how to smile with her lustrous brown eyes Mr. Carpenter visits and old church in Transylvania with the wife and daughter of our American minister to Bucharest. Inside this edifice are hundreds of valuable Turkish prayer rugs reminders of the days when the Crescent rode high over Central and Eastern Europe to the gates of Vienna.

Serbians never had the hospital habit, for the simple reason that there were no institutions to practice the habit on. This native woman of Monastir was induced to visit the American Red Cross hospital after suffering several days with an ear-ache. Dr. Eugenie Flod Keyes and Dr. Mabel Flood of the Red Cross staff are administering relief in the above picture. The Serbian woman is doubtful but patient. She is dressed in the native costume of Monastir, each town of the country having its own brocaded in bright colors. At this dispensary, 150 people are treated every day

Volunteer Workers in Roumania. A group of Roumanian peasants who volunteered their services to the American Red Cross at Bucharest in making garments for the poor in the devastated areas. One of the most admirable traits of these simple couuntry folk is a disposition to help their less fortunate sisters in the devastated countryside. The only return they sought was a little kerosene oil, so that they could work nights, and this the Red Cross was able to furnish them without difficulty

Women of the Balkans. A typical group of women from the mountain district of Serbia. They are taking a sun bath on the side of the American Red Cross station at Batch while waiting for the distribution of relief supplies. Note their aprons and similarity of dress. The aprons are made of coarse handspun wool with fine red and white stripes. The jackets are the native costume of the village from which they come. They hav ewalked many miles for Red Cross supplies. Several of them are barefoot and none have stockings

A driver of the old school. He hopes to die before the inartistic automobile supplants his elegant victoria with prancing teams of greys, on the boulevards of Buckharest [i.e. Bucharest] A corner of Sinia the smart summer colony of Roumania high in the pine clad Carpathian mountains ; Roumanian girls are good to look at but they prefer their Latin brothers to the cold Anglo-Saxon.

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Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a horse-drawn carriage driver in uniform, Bucharest; a road in the woods with a large building in the background, Sinaia; and a group of men and women outside a building.

Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26.
On page: no. 1262 (top left image); no. 1264 (top right image) and no. 1263 (bottom image).
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [3].
Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (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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