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    Mark Twain : a portrait

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    Portrait of Mark Twain

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    Portrait of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) seated, facing slightly right.

    photCL 352 (204)

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    Twain, Mark

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    The collection consists of 6202 black-and-white and color photographs, pen and ink drawings, and postcards, 1412 black-and-white and color negatives, 2606 black-and-white and color slides, and ephemeral materials, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s) collected by the Automobile Club of Southern California. They form a general photographic reference collection as well as a broad visual survey of topics of interest to California motorists. Included are images of sites in North and Central America (with an emphasis on California), Europe, the Pacific Islands, and portraits, as well as images related to other subjects of interest to the Club's membership. Many of the images were published as illustrations for articles in the Club's first member magazine, Touring Topics. A large portion of the photographs were taken by authors of articles that appeared in Touring Topics; others were commissioned by the Club; and others appear to have been sent to the Club. Photographers (and authors) include, but are not limited to, Ansel Adams, Fred Archer, Viroque Baker, George Hugh Banning, Adelbert Bartlett, Virginia S. Bartlett, Andrew R. Boone, Julius Cindrich, Norman Clyde, Will Connell, Loyd Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Asahel Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fred Dapprich, E.H. Davis, E.E. East, John Anson Ford, Frasher, Ewing Galloway, Forman G. Hanna, Phil Townsend Hanna, Hoag and Ford, John Edwin Hoag, Bert W. Huntoon, Philip Johnston, Dr. Frederick Monsen, Dave Packwood, C.C. Pierce, Ernest M. Pratt, Putnam Studios, E. Willard Spurr, and John L. Von Blon.

    photCL 375

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    The adventures of Mark Twain a pictorial map of the life of Mark Twain ... told in the motion picture "The adventures of Mark Twain"

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    United States map illustrated with important happenings in the life of Mark Twain surrounded by scenes from the movie starring Fredric March and Alexis Smith and a picture of the Mark Twain Memorial in Hannibal, Missouri.

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    Mark Twain's religion

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    194572

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    A Mark Twain sampler

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    475789