MARK TWAIN Writer Novelist Humorist Cabinet Card Photo Vintage 19th Century Repr

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Handmade historical reproduction Cabinet Card photograph of Samuel Langhorne Clemes, aka, Mark Twain.The photograph is a Fujifilm Archival Quality Matte Print from the original image. Each card has a short bio on the reverse which makes it useful as a
history teaching tool in addition to interesting, enjoyable and informative art.
Overall card size is approximately 4.75" x 7.25."
From the brief Back Bio -
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter
often called “The Great American Novel”.
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens.
He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to
join Orion in Nevada…
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The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture from the 1860’s through the early part of the 20th Century.
It consisted of a thin albumen photographic paper print mounted on a card typically measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches (108 by 165 mm). They are often confused with Carte de Visité (CDV), a similar but smaller format introduced around 1854 in France. CDV’s were very popular during the American Civil War. They tended to be much smaller in a  standard 2-1/2" x 4" format.
“Cabinet Card” portraits were often presented and exchanged by individuals of position, and social standing. They came to often replace the “calling card” as a currency of social exchange and introduction. They were often kept and displayed in glass “cabinets” to demonstrate acquaintance or connection in some way with the notables pictured in the portraits.