Content/DescriptionWaist length portrait of a boy wearing a white shirt with a black tie and a dark hat. He is seated in a chair with one arm akimbo and the other resting in his lap holding a printer's composing stick with letters SAM.
Title
[Sam: portrait of Samuel Clemens as a youth holding a printer's composing stick with letters SAM.]
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; sixth plate, visible image 7 x 5.7 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Date NoteWritten in case well. <physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: dome topped (elliptical).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Pad: red silk.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">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.</physfacet>;;;
Contents
Image 2: [Sam: portrait of Samuel Clemens...] (Detail.)
Image 2: MTP 9.7a [00001]––DIG
Image 3: [Sam: portrait of Samuel Clemens...] (during)
Image 3: Content/DescriptionDuring treatment: inscription on silk pad of case. (Scanned from a 35mm slide.)
Image 3: MTP 9.7a [00001]––NEG
Image 4: [Sam: portrait of Samuel Clemens...] (during)
Image 4: Content/DescriptionDuring treatment: inscription in well of case identifying possible photographer G.H. Jones[?] of Hannibal, Missouri.
Image 4: MTP 9.7a [00001]––NEG
brk00041717_8a: [Sam: portrait of Samuel Clemens...] (Bare plate, from a transparency.)
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