Collier County Museums Historic Photo Archive | Seminole Indians

This album contains historic images and documents on Collier County's Seminole Indians.

78.4.74

Seminole family, c1920.

78.4.75

Caption reads "Billy Feul, Seminole, 115 years old. April 1928". Feul claimed to have fought along side Chief Billy Bowlegs at the Battle of Deep Lake in 1857.

78.4.76

Photographed from L to R: Mrs. Irving Moxley, Abagie Tiger(?) a medicine man, and Josephine Smith in an Indian camp. The caption reads "Seminole Chief, April 1928".

78.4.77

Three Seminole children in traditional dress seated inside a chickee. The caption reads "Seminole Papoose's. April 1928".

78.4.78

Seminole child, April 1928.

78.4.108

Duplicate of 78.4.75. The shortened caption reads "Billy Feul, Seminole, April 1928".

78.4.109

Duplicate of 78.4.76. Shortened caption reads " Seminole Chief, 1928".

78.14.78

A Seminole man, identified as Frank Charlie, and a Seminole woman (possibly his wife) in tradtional Indian dress, cooking over an open fire in the chickee. Dated April 23, 1952.

78.14.80

A Seminole man identified as Frank Charlie standing with his wife in front of a chickee, dated April 23, 1952. Both are wearing traditional Indian dress.

78.14.81

A postcard of three Seminole women and three Seminole children in traditional Indian dress, grouped together for a studio portrait, c1915. The inscription reads "Seminole Indians, Chockoloskee, Fla."

78.14.82

Two Seminole women with two small children in traditional Indian dress, clustered around a "living" or sleeping chickee. The woman on the left is seated on raised floor boards, sewing, and the woman on the right is grinding corn with a cypress mortar and pestle, while the children play. The photograph was taken c1940s by Collier Development Corporation.

78.14.83

Seminole Hunters, c1910.

78.14.84

The caption reads "CHOKOLOSKEE FLORIDA N1001 SEMINOLE INDIANS". A handwritten note on the reverse reads " Charley Tigertail picture about 40 years ago, 8-21-53".

78.14.85

The caption on front reads " SEMINOLE INDIANS N985". Handwritten

78.14.86

Little Charlie Jumper and his family. The caption on the front reads " Seminole Indians at Chokoloskee Fla. N987".

78.14.87

A group of eleven Seminole workers (all unidentified), clearing underbrush with scythes in the vicinity of Deep Lake, c1920s. Several are in traditional Indian dress. White workman on the far right.

78.14.88

Two Seminole women (both unidentified), in traditional Indian dress, by a cooking chickee, c1930s. The woman on the left is grinding corn in a cypress mortar and pestle. The woman on the right is using a set of woven sifting baskets. The caption on the front reads "Seminole Indians- Pounding Corn-Everglades, Fla. 2-1-453".

78.14.89

C.S. "Ted" Smallwood (left) and Charlie Tigertail at Chokoloskee. Photographed during the wedding reception held for Freddie Williams and Marguerite Smallwood in 1928. The notation reads " Cocanut Palm, Chokoloskee, Fla".

78.14.90

The handwritten notation reads "Deaconess, Three little friends in Ingram Billy's Village". Photographed by Deaconess Bedell, c1940s.

78.14.120

A composite view of Deaconess Bedell's Glade Cross Mission locations; and Seminole Indians, circa 1940.

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