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the Mississippi River of Mark Twain Philippe RENAULT / hemis.fr
2010 is Mark Twain’s year with the celebration of the centenary of the death of the famous American author (April 21, 1910) and the 175th birthday of his birth (November 30, 1835). Most of his life and of his work is related to the Mississippi river. To start with its name. In 1867 Samuel Langhorne Clemens took as pen name Mark Twain, an expression used by the sailors when they probed the river to find a channel with their boat. “Twain Mark! “(two lengths), a measurement of depth which announces to the pilot of the steamer that water was still navigable. At the time of his training to become a steamer pilot (1859) Mark Twain studied 3200 km of river banks and consigned its memories in one of its most famous novels “Life on the Mississippi”. Let us follow the writer on the roads along the large river from Mineapolis and Saint-Paul the twin cities towards Memphis and to New Orleans. Without forgetting a journey in New England in Hartford Connecticut where Mark Twain lived from 1874 to 1891 in a superb residence has become today a writer's house open to the public and a dynamic museum installed in a modern wing. With our contributors : Christian HEEB, Gilles RIGOULET, Patrick FRILET, Philippe RENAULT / hemis.fr
HEMIS_304062 : United States, Louisiana, Atchafalaya Basin, fishermen on Fausse Point Lake FRILET Patrick / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891 RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Alligator Bayou, Sunset HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), museum next to the house which has opened in 2003, Sam Clemens and daughter Jean at Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut in 1909, photo Library of Congress RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, French Quarter, Horse drawn carriage HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, St Martinville, the Romero brothers FRILET Patrick / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, Vacherie, Oak Alley Plantation, Antebellum Mansion in Mississippi River banks, built in 1837 before the American Civil War FRILET Patrick / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), group of visitors RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Missouri, Hannibal, Cardiff Hill, statue of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), winter garden in the rotunda of the library RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891, view into library HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), library, books RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), museum next to the house which has opened in 2003, signature RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
HEMIS_304116 : United States, Minnesota, Mississipi meanders near Itasca Park (aerial view) RIGOULET Gilles / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), pool room on the second floor RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), museum next to the house which has opened in 2003, picture of the boarding of goods on the Mississsippi River in the 19th century RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), pool room on the second floor, desk and old newspapers RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), winter garden in the rotunda of the library RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891
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United States, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891 HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), a child's room RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), stairs leading to first floor RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891, Kitchen HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891, Mark Twain's study HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891, Mark Twain's study HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), salon and his piano RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
HEMIS_379989 : United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), oil portrait of Mark Twain by Dora Wheeler Keith (1887) RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), museum next to the house which has opened in 2003, objects which used to belong to the writer RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891 RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891, Bedroom HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), a child's room, books and portrait RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891 HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), museum next to the house which has opened in 2003 RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910), museum next to the house which has opened in 2003, entrance RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, house of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) built by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter for Mark Twain in 1873 who lived there with his family until 1891 RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, New England, Connecticut, Hartford, city centre RENAULT Philippe / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, French Quarter, Jackson Square, St.Louis Cathedral HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, French Quarter, Mississippi River, Levee HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, near New Orleans, Wetlands along Mississippi River (aerial view) HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
HEMIS_303791 : United States, Louisiana, Thibodeaux, abandonned plantation of Laurel Valley FRILET Patrick / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, French Quarter, American flag, paddle steamer, River Boat Natchez on Mississippi River HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, near Breaux Bridge, Lake Martin Nature Reserve with fog HEEB Christian / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, Natchez paddleboat on Mississipi River in front of the Twin Bridge FRILET Patrick / hemis.fr
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United States, Louisiana, Lafayette, alligators in the bayous FRILET Patrick / hemis.fr
HEMIS_304083 : United States, sternwheel boat Delta Queen listed historical monument on the Mississippi River FRILET Patrick / hemis.fr