C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 drawn before it knew what

drawn before it knew what it would become

when Lincoln was less a man than the country's preferred way of remembering itself

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

hand-cranked grist mills

rendered in full gallop against the darkness of the American night

C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 drawn before it knew whatC. 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