Tom Sawyer Contestants Pose Before the Tom Sawyer Car of the Mark Twain Zephyr

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Title	Tom Sawyer Contestants Pose Before the Tom Sawyer Car of the Mark Twain Zephyr
Date of Original	25 October 1935
Date of Digital	19 October 2003
Description	HANNIBAL, MO - The Tom Sawyer contestants pose in front of the Tom Sawyer railroad car, part of the Mark Twain Zephyr. A car of the train is named for each of the three main characters of the book "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer." The contestants, order unknown, are Junior Musson (Ft. Madison, IA), Bob Samuelson (Ft. Madison, IA), Wayne Priebe (Canton, MO), Thomas Moore (Canton, MO), Lewis Hewitt (Clarksville, MO), Russell Mathes (Elsberry , MO), Danny Kane (Keokuk, IA), George Rogers (Keokuk, IA), Charles Flick (Hannibal, MO), Jack Meyer (Hannibal, MO), and Edgar Denniston (Burlington, IA). Milton Duvall, Jr. (Clarksville, MO), the winner of the contest, is located in the front row, right end. Technically, the two Hannibal entrants, Jack Meyer and Charles Flick, do not compete in the contest per se but act as ambassadors for the event.
Creator	Pollard, Braxton
Contributor	Hannibal Free Public Library (Hannibal, MO)
Publisher	Hannibal Free Public Library (Hannibal, MO)
Subject	Mark Twain Zephyr (railroad train)
Subject	Mark Twain Zephyr Dedication.
Subject	Hannibal (MO)
Subject	Musson, Junior.
Subject	Samuelson, Bob.
Subject	Priebe, Wayne.
Subject	Moore, Thomas.
Subject	Hewitt, Lewis.
Subject	Mathes, Russell.
Subject	Kane, Danny.
Subject	Rogers, George.
Subject	Flick, Charles.
Subject	Meyer, Jack.
Subject	Duvall, Milton, Jr.
Subject	Denniston, Edgar.
Original Format	Photograph, black and white, 10" by 8"
Digital Format	jpg
Identifier	Z0083