Frank G. Carpenter feeding pigeons,Canal in Venice,Italy,1923,Gondolier,Gondola
Title: Every visitor to Venice must buy corn from a rich peddler and feed the pigeons in front of St. Mark's Cathedral. Mr. Carpenter does his duty To drift through the canals of Venice is to know another side of life. Gondolas are hitched to posts in front of palaces and above dreamy eyed Venetian girls lean out on flower laden balconies ; 'Taxi?' At your hotel door is the waiting gondola or Venetian taxi, the gondolier in his wide black hat, white coat and beaming smile.
Creator(s): Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1923.
Medium: 4 photographic prints (1 page) : gelatin silver.
Summary: Photographs show Frank Carpenter feeding pigeons, a canal in Venice, and a gondolier in a gondola, Venice, Italy.
Notes:
Title from item.
On page: no. 1546 (top left image), no. 1547 (top right image), no. 1548 (bottom left image), no. 1549 (bottom right image).
Text under image 1546: 'Same as 1547'.
Text under image 1547: 'Same as 1546'.
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [146].
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).
Subjects:
Carpenter, Frank G.--(Frank George),--1855-1924,--Journeys--Italy--Venice.
Pigeons--Italy--Venice--1920-1930.
Gondolas--Italy--Venice--1920-1930.
Canals--Italy--Veince--1920-1930.
Bookmark /2011660856/
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