Lincoln Home, 1918

Posted on October 21, 2013 by editor

Lincoln Home 1918One of 25 sketches by Lester Hornby that are included in Lincoln in Illinois by Octavia Roberts (1918). Hornby, a founder of the Rockport (Me.) Art Colony, was an illustrator, lithographer, watercolor artist and war correspondent in World War I. Roberts, who grew up in Springfield, was a Maine resident for much of her married life.

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  1. Nancy Chapin says:
    September 23, 2014 at 2:12 am

    Fascinating little book written by Octavia. She was a very talented young woman. She wrote plays and skits for the Anti Rust Club and at least one of her plays was later published and utilized elsewhere.

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