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Title : Julcee-Mathla, a Seminole chief.
Series : Reference collection
Photographer : Ted Saylor Photography.
Image Number : Rc0-475
Date : 1843.
Notes :

For several years Julcee-Mathla fought American troops in the Everglades and outlasted four generals. In the winter of 1842, General W. J. Worth recommended to the War Department that the several hundred remaining Seminoles be allowed to stay in Florida and not be removed to the Indian Territory.

Published by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, Philadelphia. Drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring establishment. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1843 by James G. Clark in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Transparency by Ted Saylor Photography.