Florence Randle

Florence Randle was a Works Progress Administration photographer who traveled with her teenage niece (Phyllis Sheffield) to photograph Miccosukee in South Florida around 1937. Randle is survived by her niece, who works as a painter and sels the acclaimed documentary photographs they made together.

Jeff Klinkenberg wrote about their work and it has been displayed at the Smithsonian[1] and in Seminole collections.[2] Her work is also in the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History[3] and the collections of the South Florida Archaeology and Ethnography Program [4] at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida. Their work is also included in the Phyllis Sheffield Collection at the Department of Anthropology & Genealogy, Seminole Tribe of Florida.

Sheffield continues to sell their work along with her own paintings.[1][5]

References

  1. 1 2 JEFF KLINKENBERG Images Of A Lost Tribe; In The 1930s, Two Fearless Women Ventured Into The Everglades To Photograph The Miccosukees. Now The Smith-sonian Will Display Their Historic Images. February 11, 1996 Sun Sentinel
  2. ↑ http://humanities-exchange.org/seminole.htm
  3. ↑ http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/sem.html
  4. ↑ http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/sflarch/ethnographic_collections.htm
  5. ↑



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