![In the terraced garden rising behind his home on the Bosphorus, the Honorable G.B. Ravendael [i.e., Ravndal], American Consul-General in Constantinople, points out the Giant's Hill (or Goliath's Hill??) over on the Asiatic side and in the shelter of it the huge tanks of Standard Oil Co.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTIvaW4tdGhlLXRlcnJhY2VkLWdhcmRlbi1yaXNpbmctYmVoaW5kLWhpcy1ob21lLW9uLXRoZS1ib3NwaG9ydXMtdGhlLWhvbi1nYi1yYXZlbmRhZWwtNWZlNWM3LTEwMjQuanBn/320/400/jpg "In the terraced garden rising behind his home on the Bosphorus, the Honorable G.B. Ravendael [i.e., Ravndal], American Consul-General in Constantinople, points out the Giant's Hill (or Goliath's Hill??) over on the Asiatic side and in the shelter of it the huge tanks of Standard Oil Co.")
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In the terraced garden rising behind his home on the Bosphorus, the Honorable G.B. Ravendael [i.e., Ravndal], American Consul-General in Constantinople, points out the Giant's Hill (or Goliath's Hill??) over on the Asiatic side and in the shelter of it the huge tanks of Standard Oil Co.
Summary
Frank Carpenter (left) and American Consul General Gabriel Bie Ravndal, full-length portrait, standing on balcony, facing right, Bosporus, Turkey.
Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
In album: European Pictures (1923 Trip), no. 1371.
Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.
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Date
01/01/1923
Location
bosporus
Source
Library of Congress
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