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[Samuel Clemens, half-length portrait, standing at end of pool table] – Antique Photo Print

[Samuel Clemens, half-length portrait, standing at end of pool table], c1908 Jan. 11. — historic photograph
[Samuel Clemens, half-length portrait, standing at end of pool table], c1908 Jan. 11.. Historic photograph from the Books & Writers collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Samuel Clemens, half-length portrait, standing at end of pool table], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Mark Twain leans at the end of a billiard table in this half-length portrait, a pairing that reflects one of his best-known pastimes. He was a devoted player who kept a table in his New York home and often spent evenings over the game, and the photograph's January 1908 date places it in the last decade of his life, when he was becoming a fixture of American public life. The image is a stereograph, a paired-lens card meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, and it was issued by Underwood & Underwood, a firm that produced and sold such views to a wide audience. Its popularity shows how eagerly the public followed the writer's image.

Created / publishedc1908 Jan. 11.
Medium1 photographic print : stereograph.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH103061 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. U-112522. Exhibit loan 4225-L.
SubjectsTwain, Mark,--1835-1910. Billiards--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,656 × 3,802 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220243

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