COLONIAL ERA  

Major microfilm and manuscript archives are: 
 
Public Records Office (London)  
East Florida Papers (Lib. Con.)  
Papeles de Cuba (AGI)  
Joseph Byrne Lockey Papers  
Elizabeth West Papers  

These collections cover the period 1763 to 1821 and include "talks" or treaty conferences; papers on trade; ethnographic data; and some biographical information on native leaders.  
 
Letter, King Payne to Gov. Enrique White,1800, 
East Florida Papers

• Seminole Tribe of Florida
• Miccosukee Tribe of Florida
• Seminole History, State Archives
• Seminole Wars Historic Foundation

The library's holdings for this period focus primarily on the years of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) and consist of published memoirs written by U.S. soldiers, two important diaries, extensive newspaper collections reporting the war on a national level, maps of Florida depicting the sites of forts, battles, and Seminole settlements, and numerous items in the miscellaneous manuscript collection.  

The library also has, on microfilm, records from the Office of Indian Affairs and the Southern Superintendency of Indian Affairs.  These records include letters sent and received (1835-1845), claims for losses during the Second Seminole War, and Confederate records on Indian affairs.  Photocopies of letters sent from the Seminoles to the B.I.A. between 1882 and 1897 are contained in the Rex Quinn Collection.  
 
 

For the period 1900 to 1960, the library has several important photographic collections and a number of manuscript collections detailing various aspects of life at Big Cypress, Brighton, and other reservations.  These resources cover the World War II and Termination debate eras.   

Photograpic collections (2000+ images)  

the lantern slides of Rev. Alexander Linn  
the photography of Louis Capron  
the photography of Florence Randle  
the photography of Alfred DeVane Randle

John Goggin Collection  
Rex Quinn Collection 
Indian Claims Commission suit
Oral History Recordings

Selected records, letters to and from the B.I.A.,  
includes 1913-1929, 1930-1940 census rolls