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Photo, Print, Drawing Seminole Josie Billie with Family and Dog.

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Title

  • Seminole Josie Billie with Family and Dog.

Summary

  • This photograph, taken in the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida near Deep Lake in April 1921, depicts Josie Billie and his family. Born on December 12, 1887, Billie was the son of the first Indian to receive a formal education in Florida. A Seminole medicine man and long-time public spokesman for the Florida Seminoles, Billie was also a Baptist minister. He was a frequent participant in the Florida Folk Festival and lived on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in Hendry County until his death in 1980. The image is from the collection of John Kunkel Small, a prominent American botanist associated with the New York Botanical Garden who specialized in the plant life of the American Southeast and documented environmental degradation in the Everglades.

Names

  • Small, George Donor.
  • Small, John Kunkel, 1869-1938 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1921-04.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Florida--Big Cypress Swamp
  • -  1921
  • -  Billie, Josie, 1887-1980
  • -  Dogs
  • -  Families
  • -  Folklife
  • -  Group portraits
  • -  Indians of North America
  • -  Indigenous peoples
  • -  Seminole Indians
  • -  Shamans

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 nitrate photonegative : black and white ; 7 x 5 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: State Library and Archives of Florida.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669939

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Small, George Donor, and John Kunkel Small. Seminole Josie Billie with Family and Dog. United States of America Florida Big Cypress Swamp, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -04] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669939/.

APA citation style:

Small, G. D. & Small, J. K. (1921) Seminole Josie Billie with Family and Dog. United States of America Florida Big Cypress Swamp, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -04] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669939/.

MLA citation style:

Small, George Donor, and John Kunkel Small. Seminole Josie Billie with Family and Dog. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -04] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669939/>.