Episcopal Deaconess and missionary, Harriet Bedell, poses with a Seminole family in front of a building. Harriet Bedell spent her life serving as a missionary to several Indigenous American groups in the western U. S. and in Alaska. During her retirement years, Bedell administered to Seminole Indian groups living in the Everglades. Photograph was previously included in an album belonging to Adele Willoughby.
Group portrait with Rev. Albert Stake and several Seminole men and women. Rev. Stake, a Creek Indian from Oklahoma and missionary Baptist preacher, started coming to the area around 1913 to spread Christian teachings to Seminoles in Indiantown. Stake continued his missionary work intermittently through 1920.
