The Florida Gator1 post card; postally unused; caption: "Free lunch in the Everglades, Florida"; "The Florida Gator. Have you met the Florida Gator? He is the champion negro hater. Although he finds many things to eat. His favorite morsel is negro meat."
Photographs depicting alligator roping and wrestling, 1921-1927.From Photographs : series 39.; Henry Coppinger, Jr., made alligator wrestling popular. Seminoles learned from him, then made the ritual their own. Tony Tommie (Panther clan) was headman for the Seminole village at Musa Isle. (Headmen were tribal spokesmen, but not chiefs.)