This album contains historic images and documents on Collier County's Seminole Indians.
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Seminole family, c1920. |
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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. |
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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". |
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Three Seminole children in traditional dress seated inside a chickee. The caption reads "Seminole Papoose's. April 1928". |
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Seminole child, April 1928. |
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Duplicate of 78.4.75. The shortened caption reads "Billy Feul, Seminole, April 1928". |
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Duplicate of 78.4.76. Shortened caption reads " Seminole Chief, 1928". |
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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. |
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Seminole Hunters, c1910. |
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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". |
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The caption on front reads " SEMINOLE INDIANS N985". Handwritten |
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Little Charlie Jumper and his family. The caption on the front reads " Seminole Indians at Chokoloskee Fla. N987". |
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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. |
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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". |
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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". |
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The handwritten notation reads "Deaconess, Three little friends in Ingram Billy's Village". Photographed by Deaconess Bedell, c1940s. |
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A composite view of Deaconess Bedell's Glade Cross Mission locations; and Seminole Indians, circa 1940. |
Please give proper credit if using these images/documents. Credit line should read Courtesy of Collier County Museums, Naples, Fl.