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Mark Twain / Phillip [sic] Seaman [paper stereograph.]

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Mark Twain / Phillip [sic] Seaman [paper stereograph.]
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  • Mark Twain / Phillip [sic] Seaman [paper stereograph.]
  • Mark Twain / Phillip [sic] Seaman [paper stereograph.]

    Object Details

    Photographer?

    Baekeland (Family)

    Names

    Seaman, Phillip
    Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

    Collection Creator

    Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944

    Collection Citation

    Leo Baekeland Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

    Scope and Contents

    Mark Twain, wearing a hat and overcoat and smoking a cigar, stands beside a young boy wearing a suit, on a rug in front of an ivy-covered building. Photographer unidentified, possibly by Leo Baekeland or a member of the Baekeland family. Probably a homemade, rather than commercial, stereograph. "Mark Twain / Phillip Seaman" in pencil on verso.
    sova.nmah.ac.0005_ref3045

    GUID

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8dec50e3e-473b-421c-9bc9-1f51bde95aba

    Local Numbers

    AC005-0000121-01 & -02 (AC Scan)

    Topic

    Ivy
    Smoking -- 1890-1920
    Cigars

    Photographer?

    Baekeland (Family)

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    Leo H. Baekeland Papers
    Leo H. Baekeland Papers / Series 11: Photographs, Film Negatives, Photoprints, Stereographs and Glass Plate Negatives / 11.4: Stereographs / Mark Twain, Phillip Seaman

    Extent

    1 Item (Silver gelatin on paper, mounted, 3-1/2" x 7")

    Date

    circa 1900

    Archival Repository

    Archives Center, National Museum of American History

    Type

    Archival materials
    Photographs
    Stereographs

    Arrangement

    In Box 49.

    Collection Rights

    Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

    Genre/Form

    Photographs -- 1890-1900 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Stereographs
    Stereographs -- 1860-1900

    Restrictions

    Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
    NMAH.AC.0005_ref3045
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    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8dec50e3e-473b-421c-9bc9-1f51bde95aba
    NMAH.AC.0005
    ACAH

    Record ID

    ebl-1560343810102-1560343810569-3

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