In Italy the trains stop at the stations and the passengers get down to buy papers, candy and wine. Note black shirt fascisti with ribbons for service Mussolini claims to have discharged all the useless railway employees but here are three men whose duty it is to attend to the few trains a day and close the doors of the compartments.
Summary
Photograph shows newspaper vendors at railroad stations and railroad employees closing doors of a train car, Italy.
On page: no. 1556 (top image), no. 1557 (middle image), and no. 1558 (bottom image).
Text under image no. 1556: "Same as 1554".
Text under image no. 1557: "Same as 1554".
Text under image no. 1558: "Same as 1555".
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [149].
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).
Tags
Date
01/01/1923
Contributors
Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924, photographer
Source
Library of Congress
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