Portrait of a Man – Possibly a Self-Portrait of William T. Clarke

Folklorist Henry W. Shoemaker helped secure many of Clarke’s surviving photographic negatives for the state of PA.  He described Clarke as a “corncob pipe-smoking, tall, slight, affable, ardent mountaineer, possessing a magnificent soldierly figure and erect carriage, with aquiline features singularly reminiscent of General Pershing.”  This image could possibly be a self-portrait of Clarke.