Phyllis Sheffield

Phyllis Sheffield
BornDecember 29, 1916
DiedJuly 16, 2015

Phyllis Sheffield (December 29, 1916 – July 16, 2015)[1] was a painter with a history as a documentary photographer of Miccosukee Indians in Florida. As a teenager, she helped photograph the natives living in the Everglades during trips with her aunt Florence (Stiles) Randle. She was born in Miami in 1916. Jeff Klinkenberg wrote about their work and it has been displayed at the Smithsonian.[2] Randle was a WPA photographer.[3] Her work is also in the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History [4] and the collections of the South Florida Archaeology and Ethnography Program[5] 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 lived in Palatka in 1996. Her paintings include custom made maps of Florida and nautical charts.[2] She also sells the vintage photos she and her aunt made of the Miccosukee Indians around 1937.[6] Sheffield died on July 16, 2015.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Phyllis Sheffield Schoenfield". familysearch.org. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b Klinkenberg, Jeff (11 February 1996). "Images of a Lost Tribe". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Seminole". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
  4. ^ "Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes of Florida". Archived from the original on 2008-03-06. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
  5. ^ "Ethnographic Collections". 7 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Downtown Deland Fall Festival of Arts Expecting 75,000".
  7. ^ "Phyllis Schoenfield Obituary". ObitsforLife. Retrieved 18 March 2016.


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