Frank G. Carpenter

Who was Frank G. Carpenter?

Frank George Carpenter 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 by Frances at her death in 1972. The collection at the Library of Congress totals approximately 16,800 photographs and about 7,000 negatives.

Frank G. Carpenter's books include:

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: North America

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: South America

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe

Carpenter's World Travels: Holy Land and Syria

Alaska our Northern Wonderland

Carpenter's World Travels: Java and East Indies

Carpenter's World Travels: The Tail of the Hemisphere - Chile & Argentina

Carpenter's World Travels: The Alps, The Danube, and the Near East

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Asia

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Canada