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When the Quaker City stopped in at Constantinople in September 1867, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and several of his fellow excursionists had their photographs taken there by Abdullah Frères, the official photographers to His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul-Aziz. Clemens thought his pictures very bad, however: he might as well send a photograph of the Sphinx, he said, it would look as much like him.
Signed Photo, being a carte-de-visite; from a sitting on September 1-2, 1867. “Inscribed “Yrs Truly, Samuel L. Clemens.”
Used with permission of Shapell Legacy Partnership 2.
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