Frank G. Carpenter
Frank G. Carpenter | |
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 Frank George Carpenter | |
| Born | May 8, 1855 |
| Died | June 18, 1924 (aged 69) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, geographer, photographer, lecturer, collector of photographs |
| Spouse | Joanna Condict |
| Children | Frances Carpenter, John Carpenter (athlete) |
Frank George Carpenter (Mansfield, Ohio, May 8, 1855, – Nanking, June 18, 1924[1][2]) 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, Carpenter photographed Alaska between 1910 and 1924. A collection of over 5,000 images were donated to the Library of Congress[3] by Frances at her death in 1972. The collection at the Library of Congress totals approximately 16,800 photographs and about 7,000 negatives.[4]
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)
- Alaska our Northern Wonderland (1923)
- 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)[5]
- The Houses We Live In (1926)
- Through the Philippines and Hawaii (1926)[6]
- Carpenter's World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli (1927)
- Carp's Washington (1960, ed. by Frances Carpenter)
References
- ^ Site Library of Congress (Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A.) (2011-10-30). "Frances Carpenter Collection - Relating to Frank G. Carpenter" (PDF).
- ^ Site Biblioteca Digital Mundial (2011-10-30). "Nova Zelândia, Maoris em sua casa de conversação".
- ^ Carpenter photograph collection – Library of Congress
- ^ "Eskimo Girl Wearing Clothes of All Fur". World Digital Library. 1915. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
- ^ Chapter XXVIII School Republics of the Arctic
- ^ https://archive.org/details/throughthephilip006240mbp
External links
- Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress
- "Background and Scope", with short biographies of Frank and Frances Carpenter
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