Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Literary File, Photography Collection
42 items (1 box)
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Susan McClellan and Mary Foster, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Samuel Langhorne Clemens Literary File consists of 42 photographs, the majority of which are images of Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain). Also included are views of places associated with him and two images of his daughter Clara. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work is featured in this file. Further descriptions of some items are available in a card catalog in the repository.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
*All items are located at PH:LF:Clemens, S. L., Box.
Item List
| Accession / P No. | Description |
| P1 | Photographic postcard portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man, seated in a wicker chair. |
| P4-P5 | 2 variant portraits of Clemens as an older man, seated in a wooden chair. |
| P6-P7 | 2 different carte-de-visite portraits of Clemens as a young man. |
| P8 | Stereograph portrait of Clemens as a young man (same as 997:0105:0263). |
| P9 | Image of Clemens leaning against the rail of a ship. |
| P10 | Photographic postcard portrait of Clemens as an older man, in a rocking chair. |
| P11 | Image of a 1935 statue by Walter Russell of Clemens and a boy representing the character Tom Sawyer. |
| P12 | Image of Missouri Governor Guy B. Park and George A. Mahan re-enacting the fence white-washing scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. |
| P13 | Color photomechanical postcard of Frederick Hibbard's statue of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at the foot of Cardiff Hill. |
| P14 | Color photomechanical postcard of Norman Rockwell's illustration of the fence white-washing scene from Tom Sawyer. |
| P15 | Color photomechanical postcard of Clemens standing in front of his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, on his last visit in 1902. |
| 957:0070:0001 | Group portrait of 6 people, including Clemens, his daughter Clara, and her husband Ossip Gabrilowitsch on their wedding day, 6 October 1909. |
| 957:0070:0002 | Portrait of Clemens as an older man. |
| 957:0070:0003-0004 | Duplicate photographic postcard portraits of Clemens (3/4 length) in a top hat (957:0070:0003 is signed "Mark Twain"). |
| 957:0070:0005 | Photographic postcard portrait of Clemens (full length). |
| 957:0070:0006 | Snapshot of Clemens with his nephew Sam Moffet (on board a ship?). |
| 957:0070:0007 | Portrait of Clemens as an older man. |
| 957:0070:0008 | Copy print of an 1896 photograph of Clemens on a wagon in India. |
| 957:0070:0009 | Full front image of a bust sculpture (by Walter Russell?) of Clemens on exhibit at the Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, Missouri. |
| 957:0070:0010 | Profile image of a bust sculpture by Walter Russell of Clemens presented to the Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, Missouri. |
| 957:0070:0011 | Portrait of Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch (Clemens' daughter). |
| 957:0070:0012 | View of the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse at the top of Cardiff Hill, Hannibal, Missouri. |
| 957:0070:0013 | View of Clemens' birthplace in Florida, Missouri. |
| 980:0111:0001-0002; 981:0055:0001; 983:0061:0001 | 4 different portraits of Clemens as an older man. |
| 988:0054:0001 | Cabinet card portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man. |
| 997:0105:0260 | Profile image of a bust sculpture by Karl Gerhardt of Clemens. |
| 997:0105:0261 | Portrait of Clemens as an older man, with pipe (sitting up in bed?). |
| 997:0105:0262 | Image of an unidentified young man in costume (portraying a character from Clemens' works?). |
| 997:0105:0263 | Stereograph portrait of Clemens as a young man (same as P8). |
| 997:0105:0264 | Portrait of Clemens as a young man on recto; portrait of William Redmond on verso. |
| 997:0105:0265 | Cabinet card of an unidentified man seated at a small table across from an unidentified young woman; painted on negative, printed on image: "Pudd'nhead Wilson." |
| 997:0105:0266 | Portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man. |
| 997:0105:0267 | Cabinet card portrait of Clemens as an older man. |
| 997:0105:0268 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Clemens with Josh Billings and Petroleum V. Nasby; printed below image: "The American Humorists." |
| 997:0105:0269 | Cabinet card portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man with George W. Cable. |
| 997:0105:0270 | Image of Ellma Maris(?) possibly portraying a character from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson; signed presentation on image and inscription on mount verso. |
Index of Photographers
Bradley, A. F.--P4-P5
Ellis & Wallery--980:0111:0002
Frazer, Jean Tomlinson--P12, 957:0070:0012-0013
J. Gurney & Son--P6, P8, 997:0105:0263
Marceau (Boston, Mass.)--981:0055:0001
Newsboy (New York, N.Y.)--997:0105:0265, 0267
Peter A. Juley & Son--P11, 957:0070:0009-0010
Pond, James B., photographer--957:0070:0006
Reed, H. T. (Henry Thomas)--P1
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896--988:0054:0001; 997:0105:0269-0270
Sprague, Frank J. (Frank Julian), b. 1857--957:0070:0001
St. John, Henry, fl. 1880s--997:0105:0262
Van Aken, E. M. (Elisha M.)--997:0105:0260
Vander Weyde, William M., 1871?-1929--997:0105:0261
Warren's Portraits--P7
Winkler, John, photographer--P13
(Last modified: 10 July 2007)
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