Content/DescriptionBust length portrait of the elder brother of Samuel L. Clemens, with a beard and mustache.
Title
[Orion Clemens (1825-1897).]
Published
ca. 1861
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
MTP 9.06 [02515]
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : tintype ; sixteenth plate, visible image 3.2 x 2.2 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: brooch. Material: metal. Dimensions: oval 4.1 x 3 cm.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Engraved on verso: DL / BL. Note (handwritten in black ink, on box lid, in hand of Samuel Clemens): Tintype of Orion Clemens / in a Guinea-gold hoop which / [our?] mother used to wear / in the 40's. At the time it contained a lock of her / mother or grandmother's / hair. SLC. Apl. 1909. Label (printed in blue ink, on box lid): PETER PAULAND CO / STATIONERS ENGRAVERS / BUFFALO. Note (handwritten, on box bottom): Lot / No 9.</physfacet>;;;
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