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Mark Twain (man with white hair in center) getting a drink of water from a dispenser at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, 1904.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

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Happy 180th Birthday, Samuel Langhorne Clemens! (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)

“Samuel Clemens on the left, & possibly Gen. Thomas Williams”

Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, 1921 - 1940. Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Famed American author Samuel L. Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was born 180 years ago on November 30, 1835.

Did you know prolific author and humorist was also an inventor? See Samuel Clemens’ Patent: 121,992 - Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments in the National Archives Catalog. Read more about Clemens’ patent via our colleagues at the United States Patent Office: Mark Twain Granted His First Patent on December 19, 1871.

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At Civil War Talk, we discovered the correct identities of the men. Union general James Monroe Williams is on the left and Union general/Kansas governor Samuel J. Crawford is on the right and it was taken in 1869: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/portrait-of-general-samuel-j-crawford-and-mark-twain.141374/#post-1712991

More information: https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=km/items/view/221883

Source: catalog.archives.gov

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Daguerreotype portrait of 15-year-old Samuel Clemens, the future Mark Twain, posing with a printer’s composing stick with his name spelled in type on it in Hannibal, Missouri, December 1850.

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Mark Twain posing at the end of a pool table with pool cue in hand, c. 1908. Animated stereoview.

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Animated stereoscopic portrait of Mark Twain, c. 1905.

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