Florence Randle

Florence Randle
Born
Florence Stiles

1890 or 1891
Died1987 (aged 96)
OccupationPhotographer
FamilyPhyllis Sheffield (niece)


Florence "Flossie" Randle (née Stiles) was a Works Progress Administration photographer who traveled with her teenage niece, Phyllis Sheffield, to photograph Miccosukee in South Florida around 1937. Sheffield worked as a painter and sold the acclaimed documentary photographs they made together.

Jeff Klinkenberg wrote about their work and it has been displayed at the Smithsonian and in Seminole collections, including at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum. Her work is also in the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History and the collections of the South Florida Archaeology and Ethnography Program 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.

Randle died in 1987 at the age of 96.

References

  1. 1 2 Klinkenberg, Jeff (17 December 1995). "Pictures of History". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
  2. 1 2 Weeks, Judy (28 August 2009). "Randle/Sheffield Photo Collection Opens at Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum" (PDF). The Seminole Tribune. Vol. 30, no. 8. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
  3. ↑ "Downtown Deland Fall Festival of Arts Expecting 75,000". Orlando Sentinel. 10 November 1996.
  4. ↑ "Photography Clicks with Festival-Goers". Orlando Sentinel. 10 March 1994. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
  5. 1 2 Klinkenberg, Jeff (11 February 1996). "Images of a Lost Tribe". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "A Cultural Memory: Resistance and Reorganization of the Seminole and Micccosukee Tribes of Southern Florida". Humanities Exchange. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  7. ↑ Jackson, Tennile (29 August 2014). "Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum receives donation of Florence Randle images" (PDF). The Seminole Tribune. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
  8. ↑ "Seminole and Miccosukee History at the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History". George A. Smathers Library - University of Florida. Archived from the original on 6 March 2008. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  9. ↑ "Ethnographic Collections". 7 April 2017.