Career
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. 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 (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)
The Houses We Live In (1926)
Through the Philippines and Hawaii (1926)
Carpenter"s World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli (1927).