Mark Twain playing pool

Mark Twain playing pool

Photograph

Attributed to Bert Underwood

Maker
American, 1862–1943

Mark Twain playing pool

ca. 1907
Gelatin silver print, printed later
24.0 x 19.2 cm.
Gift of Mrs. E. Roy Underwood
1988.0201.0001
Inscriptions verso-(in pencil) "X112522 - Mark Twain playing pool." "Mr. Clemens
was a good billard player He and his daughter played many evenings"
"These pictures were made" "I think in 1908 (lined out)" "at his
home in lower Fifth Ave in 1907" "Mr Clemens died in early in 1910."
(rubberstamp) "This picture must not be used for publication without
written permission from Keystone View Company, Meadville, PA."

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