The article offers information on the work on photographs of village of Hannibal, Missouri in context to the work of author Mark Twain. It mentions that a Hannibal photographer and artist George Lewis Crosby has taken a view of the village in 1868 or 1869. It also mentions that E. A. Elsam has also published a small series of photographs of the village in 1882 or 1883 that depicts the image of the village as Mark Twain boyhood home.