Collier County Museums Historic Photo Archive | Seminole Indians

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

78.14.112

Shows a Seminole man and woman (both unidentified), standing in a corn field holding ears of corn, c1950s. Woman is wearing traditional Indian dress.

78.14.113

A group of Seminole men and women, wearing traditional Indian dress, in a camp outside Smallwood's trading post, dated 1929. The inscription reads "INDIAN CAMP, CHOKOLOSKEE, FLA. SMALLWOOD'S STORE, 1929".

78.14.114

Six Seminole women and girls, wearing traditional Indian dress, standing on the steps of Smallwood's Store, c1929. Inscription reads "SEMINOLE INDIANS, SMALLWOOD'S STORE, CHOKOLOSKEE, FLA. 10,000 ISLANDS".

78.14.119

A group of two Seminole women and two Seminole children (unidentified), all in traditional Indian dress, standing outside the Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City, c1940s. Probably photographed by Deaconess Bedell.

78.14.121

An unidentified Seminole man wearing a traditional Indian shirt and turban, standing in front of Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City, c1940. There is also a Seminole woman in the background opening the screen door.

78.14.122

Deaconess Harriet Bedell (left) holding a cypress sofkee spoon, with Doctor Tiger (right) in a Seminole camp, 1936. Indian chickees in the background.

78.14.123

Three Seminole women and one baby (all unidentified), wearing traditional Indian dress and modern hairstyles, c1940. They are gathered on the steps of the Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City. Probably photographed by Deaconess Bedell.

78.14.124

A group of three Seminole women  with one small child (unidentified), and Deaconess Bedell (far right) in a camp in the Everglades, c1936. 

78.18.1

Seminole woman, Ruby Tigertail, c1920.

78.18.3

Caption on front reads "Florida's Native Indians, Cooking over open fire".  Caption on reverse reads "The Miccosukee and Seminole Indians of Florida still live as they did hundreds of years ago in the vast remoteness of the Florida Everglades.  Cooking the evening meal, as is being done here, is usually over an open fire, with logs laid out in a wheel fashion, so that they can be moved in periodically to feed the flames, and these logs last for many weeks of cooking, smoldering but never entirely out."  Courtesy Tiger Indian Village.

78.18.8

Seminole women, c1928.

78.19.12

Seminole man poling a dugout canoe with Seminole woman and child, seated and wearing traditional Indian dress, c1925.

80.93.3

Seminole man poling dugout canoe in Everglades, c1930.

80.93.5

Seminole Indians poling canoes in the Everglades, c1930.

86.8.1

Handwritten caption reads "The room at mission for sale of Indian (illegible)". Room at Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City full of Seminole Indian craftwork such as patchwork, baskets, dolls and sofkee spoons.

86.8.2

Two Seminole men (unidentified) playing checkers inside the Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City.

86.8.4

Seminole woman identified as Ruby Clay and a young girl only identified as Linda, standing outside Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City.

86.8.5

Group of four Seminole adults (three women, one man) standing outside Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City.

86.8.6

Unidentified Seminole man in patchwork shirt and turban standing outside Glade Cross Mission in Everglades City. There is a young girl with book in hand exiting from the screen door.

86.8.7

Deaconess Harriet Bedell holding a baby inside a tent of an Everglades setting Seminole Indian camp. Two children are inside the tent with Bedell and a Seminole woman is standing outside (all unidentified).

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