Landing at Constantinople requires a good nervous system. Porters, pirates and guides swarm aboard with passport and customs men and baggage with passengers and freight wade through the melee to the dock From the harbor Constantinople is a city of tall spires or minarets.

Photographs show crowds of men on a boat and a view of Istanbul from the Sea of Mamara, Istanbul, Turkey.

Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26.
On page: no. 1382 (top image) and no. 1383 (bottom image).
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [63].
Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).