C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 rendered in full gallop against

rendered in full gallop against the darkness of the American night

drawn before it knew what it would become

and the abstract noun made visual — published in the year secession forced every household to choose a side

A Victorian orrery rendered as devotional object

C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 rendered in full gallop againstC. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century a portrait of the man dispatched from a peninsula still half wilderness, sent north to argue Florida's case in the marble chambers of a capital that regarded the territory as both prize and problem. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the