C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 Wool at the Battle of

Wool at the Battle of Buena Vista

A Victorian orrery rendered as devotional object

a map of the United States rendered as a hog and garlanded with the regional dishes of each state

hand-cranked grist mills

C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 Wool at the Battle ofC. 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