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Doina si Sirba - gramophone disc, record label

Doina si Sirba - gramophone disc, record label

Band Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chocolate sundae. Here is the ice cream and in the "oil can" is the  chocolate syrup.  By the appearance of the man on the right business is poor Roumanian trains never fail to stop at every station no matter how fast the express is advertised to be. Throngs gather on the platforms, fruit sellers, lemonade vendors, gypsy palmists, town boys and girls and frock coated officials. It is like the days down home when the five o'clock came in ; Part of the University of Bucharest. Riots have frequently occurred here because of the large enrollment of Jewish students.

Chocolate sundae. Here is the ice cream and in the "oil can" is the c...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: two ice cream vendors on sidewalk, carrying bucket and can; people gathered outside railroad car; and a building of the University of Bucharest. Negative series co... More

Mr. Carpenter keeps up with the news of the day. Buying an American paper in Bucharest a few weeks after it was published The Military Club of Bucharest. Military life is popular here as there is so much to do. Few years of peace are allowed these Balkan states and eastern monarchies.

Mr. Carpenter keeps up with the news of the day. Buying an American pa...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: Frank Carpenter buying a newspaper at a newstand in Bucharest and people in front of the Military Club of Bucharest (Palatul Cercul Militar National).

An orthodox church in Bucharest

An orthodox church in Bucharest

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Why call a taxi when you can be wheeled around in royal state in this victoria with the velvet robed driver for twenty cents an hour. Every one can be a prince or princess for an hour Type of Roumanian peasant girl. Upon her wedding day an olive twig must be held over her head by one of the men attendants and if once it is dropped, even during the dancing and feasting, bad luck will be her lot and the gaiety will be dispelled in a jiffy.

Why call a taxi when you can be wheeled around in royal state in this ...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a horse-drawn carriage driver in his carriage, Bucharest; and a young woman wearing a head scarf. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1265 ... More

A Roumanian beauty out for a stroll in Sinaia. Tall, dark with jet black hair and eyes, they account for the Roumanian man's distaste for work and desire for pleasure, which makes Bucharest famous as the "gay Paris of the East" "I do." Making out an application for a trip to the land of advertised golden bricks. A Roumanian emigrant at the American Consulate in Bucharest. Daily hundreds are turned away because of the oversubscribed quota.

A Roumanian beauty out for a stroll in Sinaia. Tall, dark with jet bla...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including a young woman walking in a street, Bucharest and a Romanian man filling out an application to come to the United States. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C2... More

Palaces in Bucharest are elaborate. This is the old home of the beloved Carmen Sylva or first Queen of Roumania An Orthodox church in Bucharest.

Palaces in Bucharest are elaborate. This is the old home of the belove...

Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: no. 1329 (top image) and no. 1330 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [34]. Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels. Forms part of: ... More

Palaces in Bucharest are elaborate. This is the old home of the beloved Carmen Sylva or first Queen of Roumania A Roumanian peasant.

Palaces in Bucharest are elaborate. This is the old home of the belove...

Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: no. 1331 (top image) and no. 1332 (bottom image). Text under image no. 1331: Same as 1329. In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [35]. Copyright by C... More

In the late afternoon the narrow Calea Victoria of Bucharest sparkles with fine clothes and jewelry of beautiful women and male eyes are wide open to feast on the scene A street in Sinaia.

In the late afternoon the narrow Calea Victoria of Bucharest sparkles ...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: people in the Calea Victoriei (Victory Street), Bucharest and a road in Sinaia.

Peasant boys in white pants, embroidered short skirt, bright red and yellow girdle, and ornamental vests swing through the streets of Bucharest vending fruits of delicious taste

Peasant boys in white pants, embroidered short skirt, bright red and y...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a young man carrying a baskets of fruit on a yoke around his neck. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1267 (top image) and no. 1268 (bott... More

A driver of the old school. He hopes to die before the inartistic automobile supplants his elegant victoria with prancing teams of greys, on the boulevards of Buckharest [i.e. Bucharest] A corner of Sinia the smart summer colony of Roumania high in the pine clad Carpathian mountains ; Roumanian girls are good to look at but they prefer their Latin brothers to the cold Anglo-Saxon.

A driver of the old school. He hopes to die before the inartistic auto...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a horse-drawn carriage driver in uniform, Bucharest; a road in the woods with a large building in the background, Sinaia; and a group of men and women outside a bui... More