When We Are No More

by Abby Smith Rumsey

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  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  1 Rough Draft of Declaration of Independence. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

  2 Chauvet Cave. Getty Images.

  3 Pushmi-pullyu from The Story of Doctor Dolittle. Abby Smith Rumsey.

  4 Cuneiform from library of Ashurbanipal. © Trustees of the British Museum.

  5 Giant Bible of Mainz and Gutenberg Bible. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

  6 Charles Willson Peale Portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Courtesy of Independence National Historical Park.

  7 Jefferson catalogue, 1815. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

  8 Sainte-Geneviève Library. © La Collection/Jean-Claude N’Diaye. Delivered on September 11, 2015.

  9 F. Quesnel drawing of Michel de Montaigne, ca. 1588. Reprinted with permission from the Montaigne Studies website.

  10 Alexander Romanovich Luria. Reprinted with permission from www.luria.ucsd.edu.