This #MuseumMonday we are taking a closer look at a late nineteenth century photograph that offers a rare glimpse of early South Florida as a shared landscape. Settler John A. Addison is pictured alongside Seminoles at a site once called the “Hunting Grounds,” land that forms part of today’s Deering Estate. Few surviving images capture this kind of everyday proximity between non-Native settlers and Indigenous people. Historical accounts from the period describe Seminole families regularly traveling through and camping near the Addison homestead, using cleared hammock land for temporary camps, cooking, food preparation, and domestic work. These activities reflect long standing seasonal movement and subsistence practices that were well established before settlers arrived. A contemporary firsthand source published in 1891 in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly records Addison recalling the presence of Seminole travelers in the region. He described seeing fifty canoes gathered at the Brickell...