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I colorized a photo of Mark Twain shirtless taken in 1883.
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I colorized a photo of Mark Twain shirtless taken in 1883.
According to Open Culture: "The Encyclopedia of Mark Twain gives the impression that the shirtless photo was perhaps taken within a commercial context."
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Another person suggests that the shirtless photo was a byproduct of a bust that was sculpted by Karl Gerhardt for the frontispiece of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
