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English: This is a photograph of Marvin C. Stone, who was the inventor of the modern drinking straw. It comes from a book that was published in 1907, and the photograph is certainly much older - almost assuredly dating to the Civil War.
Date
Source Itinerary of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864, page 440; https://books.google.com/books?id=tBJCAAAAIAAJ&dq
Author Lawrence Wilson (book's author)

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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Marvin Stone during the Civil War

31 December 1907Gregorian

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