File:Mark Twain by GH Jones, 1850.jpg

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Portrait of Samuel Clemens as a young man holding a printer's composing stick with letters SAM. Daguerreotype; sixth plate. Plate mark: Scovill.

Inscribed in case well: G.H.[?] Jones [or Jonco?] / Hannibal Mo / 1850 / Nov. 29th. On case pad: Samuel L. Clem-/ens - [illegible] / Taken Dec. 1850 / Age 15.
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Source The Bancroft Library pictorial collections,
Author G.H.[?] Jones [or Jonco?] / Hannibal Mo
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