Joseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851-1857 antique zodiac where merchants and carriages choked

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

the Roman Church mapping its dominion across the northern half of the New World with the patient gravity of an institution outlasting empires

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph thick with cannon-smoke and ironclad menace

and the cabinet's stranger drawers

Joseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851-1857 antique zodiac where merchants and carriages chokedJoseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851 1857 a portrait of the Floridian planter who carried his territory's voice to Washington and its militia colors into the Seminole campaigns, rendered with the stiff dignity reserved for men holding a frontier in trust. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,