Florida Faces - Limited Giclee Prints on Canvas by Theodore Morris

Dressed in skins, hawk feathers and bead necklaces, they go about the business of their daily lives, hunting, traveling, talking - and sometimes stopping to stare silently across thousands of years.

They are members of ancient peoples, brought back to life by St. Augustine artist, Theodore Morris who has dedicated himself to researching and recording Lost Tribes of Florida. He has chronicled Native Americans who lived in Florida as many as 13,000 years ago, but who look in his paintings as if they might have just pulled their boat through the mangroves and come in from the pinewoods.

Theodore Roosevelt

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He became the 26th president of the United States after the assassination of William McKinley, on September 14, 1901. He was re-elected in 1904 and served until 1909.

After the United States went to war against Spain in Cuba, Roosevelt organized a volunteer cavalry regiment known as the "Rough Riders." He served as Lieutenant Colonel under Commander Leonard Wood. Because of transportation problems, their horses had to be abandoned in Tampa, Florida, and thus they fought mostly on foot when they reached Cuba.

Lauren Bacall

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Film star, born in New York City on September 16, 1924, Lauren Bacall achieved overnight stardom with her first film, "To Have and Have Not" (1944).

She married the film's star, Humphrey Bogart, in 1945, and appeared with him in the film, "Key Largo" in 1948. This was their last movie together. Much of the film was shot on location at the Caribbean Club on Key Largo, which was built in 1938.

Humphrey Bogart

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Film star, born in New York City on December 25, 1899, Humphrey Bogart died on January 14, 1957.

He was one of Hollywood's greatest box office attractions. John Huston directed the very popular movie, "Key Largo," in 1948. In addition to Bogart, it starred Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson. The tagline: "A Storm of Fear and Fury in the Sizzling Florida Keys," was used to market the film.

Bogart won an Academy Award in 1951 for the film, "African Queen," costarring Katharine Hepburn.

Nature's Beauty

An image of female elegance set amid Florida's magic landscape and nature's colorful bounty.

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Ernest Hemingway

American novelist, journalist and short story writer, Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. He created a distinguished body of fiction, much of it base on his adventurous life, before his death on July 2, 1961. In 1928, Hemingway left Paris for Key West. Here he completed "A Farewell to Arms." His next work, "Death in the Afternoon" (1932), was a nonfiction survey of the art and sociology of the Spanish bullfight.

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