Frank G. Carpenter was an author

Author

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, photographer, lecturer

Lecturer

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, 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

Alaska

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 between 1910 and 1924. A collection of over 5,000 images were donated to the Library of Congress

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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)
• The Houses We Live In (1926)
• Carpenter's World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli (1927)
• Carp's Washington (1960, ed. by Frances Carpenter)

External links

• Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress
  • "Background and Scope", with short biographies of Frank and Frances Carpenter