“Different kinds of moonlight change the shape of the river,” an illustration created by Thomas Hart Benton to accompany the 1944 edition of Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical book, Life on the Mississippi

Different kinds of moonlight change the shape of the river, an illustration created by Thomas Hart Benton to accompany the 1944 edition of Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical book, Life on the Mississippi
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