![The women of Malta wear this peculiar head covering to protect them from the hot rays of the Mediterannean [i.e., Mediterranean] sun The French boat "Lamartine" which carried us from Pireaus to Malta and Naples.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTMvdGhlLXdvbWVuLW9mLW1hbHRhLXdlYXItdGhpcy1wZWN1bGlhci1oZWFkLWNvdmVyaW5nLXRvLXByb3RlY3QtdGhlbS1mcm9tLXRoZS1kZTlkY2UtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/320/391/jpg "The women of Malta wear this peculiar head covering to protect them from the hot rays of the Mediterannean [i.e., Mediterranean] sun The French boat \"Lamartine\" which carried us from Pireaus to Malta and Naples.")
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The women of Malta wear this peculiar head covering to protect them from the hot rays of the Mediterannean [i.e., Mediterranean] sun The French boat "Lamartine" which carried us from Pireaus to Malta and Naples.
Summary
Photographs show a woman next to a building, wearing a long head scarf and the ship "Lamartine" in the harbor, Malta.
On page: no. 1507 (top image) and no. 1508 (bottom image).
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [133].
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.
Location
Tal-Papa, 35.81778, 14.52278
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.
