Lincoln as a boy earns his first dollar by ferrying passengers to a river packet waiting in midstream.
Drawing from
"A Picture Story of Abraham Lincoln"


Drawing by Norman Rockwell
of Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi"


Karpeles Manuscript Library
700 22nd St.
Rock Island, Illnois, 61201

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Rock Island
Illinois

A page of Mark Twain's play "Tom Sawyer"
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