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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.
Summary
Photographs show scenes in Romania including a young newsgirl in Bucharest and Mr. Carpenter with family of American minister to Bucharest, Peter Augustus Jay, in front of a church door in Transylvania.
Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26.
On page: no. 1294 (top image) and no. 1295 (bottom image).
Text under image no. 1295: Same as 1286.
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [15].
Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
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Date
01/01/1923
Contributors
Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924, photographer
Location
Sighișoara (Romania), 46.21667, 24.80000
Source
Library of Congress
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