Visual Materials
An album containing 38 cartes-de-visite of Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, his family, and photographs of pieces of art. There are ten studio portraits of Clemens that are dated between 1869 and 1872, four of which were taken at the same session at W. & A.H. Fry Art Photographers in Brighton. Other portraits show his children Langdon, Clara, and Susy as babies, and an older woman identified as "Grandma Ford". Following the portraits there are 12 photographs or reproductions of works of art, including four allegorical relief sculptures showing the four seasons by Bertel Thorvaldsen, and two photographs of an actress in costume, reprinted from negatives in the Brady Theatre collection. Two of the photographs are studio portraits of cats. In addition to the four photographs by W. & A.H. Fry, there are two photographs each by H.L. Bundy (Hartford, Connecticut), E.H. Paige (Buffalo, New York), Prescott & White (Hartford, Connecticut), and E. & H.T. Anthony (New York City), as well as single portraits from studios in New York, Hartford, Pennsylvania, Brighton, and Edinburgh.
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