Florence Randle Explained

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]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Klinkenberg . Jeff . 11 February 1996 . Images of a Lost Tribe . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180621143649/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-02-11/features/9602140238_1_aunt-flossie-phyllis-sheffield-miccosukee-indians . 21 June 2018 . Sun Sentinel.
2. Web site: A Cultural Memory: Resistance and Reorganization of the Seminole and Micccosukee Tribes of Southern Florida . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222055117/http://humanities-exchange.org/seminole.htm . 22 February 2014 . 20 March 2013 . Humanities Exchange.
3. Web site: Seminole and Miccosukee History at the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20080306063938/http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/sem.html . 6 March 2008 . 20 March 2012 . George A. Smathers Library - University of Florida.
4. Web site: Ethnographic Collections. 7 April 2017.
5. Web site: Downtown Deland Fall Festival of Arts Expecting 75,000.