Traffic police are courteous and efficient in Constantinople. This one has just directed Mr. Carpenter to his hotel Perhaps you can guess what it reads on the box. "Shine 'em up" ???
Summary
Photographs show a policeman with Frank Carpenter and three shoeshine boys behind boxes with Ottoman Turkish writing, Istanbul, Turkey.
Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26.
On page: no. 1402 (top image) and no. 1403 (bottom image).
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [73].
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
Silahtarağa (Istanbul, Turkey), 41.06667, 28.93333
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.