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Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo. – Vintage Wall Art

Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo., [19--] — antique engraving
Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo., [19--]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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 Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo., an antique engraving rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo.

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Hannibal, Missouri, a river town on the Mississippi, is the place this engraving names, and it is where Samuel Clemens spent his boyhood before he became Mark Twain. The town later served as the model for St. Petersburg in *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* and for the Hannibal of *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, so many viewers know it through those books. The record does not name the engraver or give a date, but the pencil signature suggests the artist approved the impression. The print shows how a wood engraving could fix a real town in the public imagination, tying a specific place to a famous author's memory of childhood.

Created / published[19--]
Medium1 print : wood engraving ; 25.3 x 23.8 cm.
NotesSigned in pencil. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 166. Gift.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,403 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127040

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