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  Saturday  May 11  2002    09: 03 AM

Mark Twain

Mark Twain Picture Gallery

When most people imagine Mark Twain they think of a shaggy-maned, white-suited humorist-sage, a picture of him that is popularized even in his childhood home of Hannibal, Missouri. But Mark Twain didn't begin to wear that famous white flannel suit in winter until December 1906, less than four years before he died. What did Sam Clemens the steamboat pilot look like? Or Mark Twain as he was writing Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
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