The medal\u27s obverse features a design after Lloyd Ostendorf\u27s original artwork that depicts Lincoln steering a flatboat down the Mississippi River. On the reverse, a short biographical sketch regarding the voyage appears. A laurel wreath borders the lower half of the medal. The medal is mounted in a leather slipcase album, which is Volume II of a two-volume set. (Volume I is a short work entitled Abraham Lincoln: An Autobiographical Narrative, written and edited by Ralph Geoffrey Newman.)https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/2761/thumbnail.jp