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around 1937. Randle is survived by her niece, who works as a painter and sels the acclaimed documentary photographs they made together.

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wrote about their work and it has been displayed at the Smithsonian and in Seminole collections. 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

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. Their work is also included in the Phyllis Sheffield Collection at the Department of Anthropology & Genealogy, Seminole Tribe of Florida. Sheffield continues to sell their work along with her own paintings.

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