Frank G. Carpenter
Frank G. Carpenter (1855 – 1924) was an author, photographer, lecturer, collector of photographs. Carpenter was a writer of standard geography textbooks and lecturer on geography, and wrote a series of books called Carpenter's World Travels which were very popular between 1915 and 1930.
With his daughter Frances, Carpenter photographed Alaska between 1910 and 1924. A collection of over 5,000 images were donated to the Library of Congress[1] by Frances at her death in 1972.
Frank G. Carpenter's books include:
- Carpenter's Geographical Reader: North America (1898)
- Carpenter's Geographical Reader: South America (1899)
- Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe (1902)
- Carpenter's World Travels: Holy Land and Syria(1922)
- Carpenter's World Travels: Java and East Indies (1923)
- Carpenter's World Travels: The Tail of the Hemisphere - Chile & Argentina (1923)
- Carpenter's World Travels: The Alps, The Danube, and the Near East (1924)
- Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Asia (1924)
- Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Canada (1924)
- Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Mexico(1924)
- Carpenter's World Travels: Uganda to the Cape (1924)
- Carpenter's World Travels: Lands of the Andes and the Desert (1924)
- Carpenter's World Travels: Along the Parana and The Amazon (1925)
- Alaska: Our Northern Wonderland (1925)[2]
- The Houses We Live In (1926)
- Carpenter's World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli (1927)
- Carp's Washington (1960, ed. by Frances Carpenter)
References
- ^ Carpenter photograph collection – Library of Congress
- ^ Chapter XXVIII School Republics of the Arctic
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1855 |
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