Illinois Land of Lincoln Author:Allan Carpenter The work was the official book of the Illinois Sesquicentennial Committee. It was illustrated with an extraordinary collection of archives from major Illinois sources. Originals in full color were reproduced in bw. These included the painting of the Piassa Bird from Das Illustritrit Mississippithal (this painting and several others t... more »hroughout the book were done by German artist Henry Lewis, who journeyed the Mississippi painting much of what he saw on that river. Most of these were reproduced for the first and only time in this work); George Catlin's La Salle Visiting an Illini Village; old prints of Potawatomi chiefs Me-No-Quet and Wa-Baun-See; Marquette's map of the Illinois country, reproduced from the original in the archives of the College of Sainte-Marie in Montreal (said to be the only document of its kind to have survived the epic journey of Marquette and Jolliet); Abraham Lincoln, the Railsplitter (reproduced for the first time from the mural of the Chicago Historial Society); Father Jacques Marquette (by Dr. Harry Wood of Arizona State University, the result of painstaking research, for there is no known authentic portrait of Marquette. The calumet, or peace pipe, which Marquette described in detail in his journal is seen in the painting). The archives originally illustrated in black and white are equally revealing, several never having been reproduced previously in book format.« less