The boyhood home of the American writer Mark Twain was this gray house on Hill Street, Missouri, the house described as Tom Sawyer's home in Mark Twain's best known story, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

Photograph shows Samuel Clemens standing in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri.

Portrait of America - no. 100.
Well remembered U.S. writers.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.