67-year old Mark Twain in front of his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, and just to show you how commonplace photography had finally become by 1902 when this picture was taken...
...here's a photo (probably a snapshot from an early Kodak) of the photographer getting ready to take the photo!
Whichever way you look at it, Twain attracted a crowd that day. By then he was one of the most famous people on the planet.
The house is still in existence, though 109 years after Twain's death, it can be a little difficult discerning...
...truth from fiction.
Motion pictures were anything but commonplace in the first decade of the 20th century, but a year before he died, when he was 74, Twain managed to appear in one anyway:
As for what Twain sounded like, I'm afraid I can't help you there. He was a silent film star only.
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