Collection Summary
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,
1835-1910
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Literary Photography
Collection
circa 1850-1950
Photography Collection PH-02824
42 items
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Forty-two photographs of and related to
author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (American, 1835-1910), who also wrote under the
name Mark Twain. The majority of the images are formal and casual portraits of
Clemens.
English
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 42 photographs of and related to author and humorist Samuel
Langhorne Clemens (American, 1835-1910), who also wrote under the name 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 may be available in a card catalog in the repository.
This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection that 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albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include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.
Acquisition:
Internal transfers
Access:
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Index Terms
Subjects
Billings, Josh, 1818-1885.
Cable, George Washington,
1844-1925.
Clemens, Clara.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,
1835-1910.
Gabrilowitsch, Ossip, 1878-1936.
Nasby, Petroleum V., 1833-1888.
Park, Guy Brasfield, 1872-1946.
Russell, Walter, 1871-1963.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Authors.
Portraits.
Portraits, Group.
Sculpture--Pictorial works.
Places
Missouri.
Document Types
Card photographs.
Cartes de visite.
Photographic postcards.
Photographic prints.
Preferred Citation
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02824). Harry Ransom
Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processed by:
Susan McClellan and Mary Foster, 2006
Related Material
Additional materials by and about Clemens are located in the Ransom Center's Library, the
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Art Collection (AR-00041), and the Samuel Clemens Collection
(MS-00809), from which these materials were likely transferred.
Items List
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P1
Photographic postcard portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man, seated in a
wicker chair.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P4-P5
Two variant portraits of Clemens as an older man, seated in a wooden chair,
1907?
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P6-P7
Two different carte-de-visite portraits of Clemens as a young man,
circa 1870s.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P8
Stereograph portrait of Clemens as a young man (same as
997:0105:0263).
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P9
Snapshot of Clemens leaning against the rail of a ship.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P10
Photographic postcard portrait of Clemens as an older man, in a rocking
chair,
circa 1910s.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P11
Image of a 1935 statue by Walter Russell of Clemens and a boy that represents
the character Tom Sawyer,
1935 or later.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
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,
1935?.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P13
Color photomechanical postcard of Frederick Hibbard's statue of Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn at the foot of Cardiff Hill, 1926 or later.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P14
Color photomechanical postcard of Norman Rockwell's illustration of the fence
white-washing scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
1936 or later.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
P15
Color photomechanical postcard of Clemens standing in front of his boyhood
home in Hannibal, Missouri, during his last visit there,
1902.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0001
Group portrait of six people, including Clemens, his daughter Clara, and her
husband Ossip Gabrilowitsch on their wedding day,
6 October 1909.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0002
Portrait of Clemens as an older man.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0003-0004
Duplicate photographic postcard portraits of Clemens (3/4 length) in a top
hat; 957:0070:0003 is signed "Mark Twain".
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0005
Photographic postcard portrait of Clemens (full length).
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0006
Snapshot of Clemens with his nephew Sam Moffet (on board a
ship?).
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0007
Portrait of Clemens as an older man.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0008
Copy print of an 1896 photograph of Clemens on a wagon in India.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0009
Full front image of a bust sculpture (by Walter Russell?) of Clemens on
exhibit at the Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, Missouri, 1935 or later.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0010
Profile image of a bust sculpture by Walter Russell of Clemens presented to
the Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, Missouri, 1935 or later.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0011
Portrait of Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch (Clemens' daughter).
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0012
View of the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse at the top of Cardiff Hill,
Hannibal, Missouri.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
957:0070:0013
View of Clemens' birthplace in Florida, Missouri.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
980:0111:0001-0002
Two portraits of Clemens: a professional portrait, and a photograph of seated
with a cigar and mortar board,
1911.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
981:0055:0001; 983:0061:0001
Two different portraits of Clemens as an older man.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
988:0054:0001
Cabinet card portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man,
circa 1880s-1890s.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0260
Profile image of a bust sculpture by Karl Gerhardt of Clemens,
1884 or later.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0261
Portrait of Clemens as an older man, with pipe (sitting up in
bed?).
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0262
Image of an unidentified young man in costume (portraying a character from
one of Clemens' works?).
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0263
Stereograph portrait of Clemens as a young man (same as P8).
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0264
Portrait of Clemens as a young man on recto; portrait of William Redmond on
verso.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
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,"
late 1890s?
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0266
Portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0267
Cabinet card portrait of Clemens as an older man,
circa 1880s-1890s.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0268
Carte-de-visite portrait of Clemens with Josh Billings and Petroleum V.
Nasby; printed below image: "The American Humorists",
1869.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
997:0105:0269
Cabinet card portrait of Clemens as a middle-aged man with George W. Cable,
1884-1885.
Clemens, S.L., Lit File Box 1
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
- Baker, G. M.--997:0105:0268
- Bradley, A. F., 1862-1948--P4-P5
- Ellis & Wallery--980:0111:0002
- Frazer, Jean Tomlinson--P12, 957:0070:0012-0013
- J. Gurney & Son--P6, P8, 997:0105:0263
- Goldsmith, Alfred T.--983:0061:0001
- 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