Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library | Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library | Still Image | Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Sewing Native Americans Textiles Demonstrations Textile arts Clothing and dress Material culture Domestic arts Equipment, domestic arts Libraries Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library
- Date
- 1984-04-17
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Images of Seminole Alice Billie sewing traditional Seminole clothing at a Miami public library. Part of a National Endowment for the Arts funded folklife program, presented at various libraries across the state, using local talent. A few of the images of Billie sewing can be found on the Florida photographic Collection website.
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Alice Edgell making mosquito brushes | Alice Edgell making mosquito brushes | Moving Image | Artisans Fieldwork Brooms and brushes Craft | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Alice Edgell making mosquito brushes
- Date
- 1984-02
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 25 minutes. The quality of the video suffers in spots. Alice Edgell demonstrates and answers questions on mosquito brush making.
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Allen's Historical Cafe | Allen's Historical Cafe | Still Image | Fieldwork Restaurants Architecture Community enterprise Business Signs and signboards Restaurateurs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alligator wrestler Richard Bowers | Alligator wrestler Richard Bowers | Still Image | Fieldwork Alligators American alligator Animal trainers Animals Working animals Native Americans Seminole Indians Tourism Performers Wrestlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Andrea and Sylvia Kolozsvary learning Hungarian embroidery | Andrea and Sylvia Kolozsvary learning Hungarian embroidery | Still Image | Needleworkers Embroiderers Apprentices Hungarians Americans Embroidery Needlework Textile arts Decorative arts Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Andrea and Sylvia Kolozsvary learning Hungarian embroidery
- Date
- 1985-03
- Description
- Seven color slides. Andrea and Sylvia apprenticed under Margaret Horvath in 1984-1985. Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
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a_s1576_11_c83-119 | Bartow Library Program: Ranching and Saddle Making | Sound | Ranchers Saddle maker Occupational folklore Workshops (Adult education) Occupational groups Libraries Oral education Ranching Cattle Folklorists Florida history Public speaking Saddles Saddlery Leather craft Work songs Working dogs Horses Equipment and supplies Clothing and dress Cowboys Leather workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Bartow Library Program: Ranching and Saddle Making
- Date
- 1983-06-20
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Presentation at the Bartow Public Library, in connection with the Pursuits and Pastimes exhibit, on Florida ranching. Folklorist Dyen began with a history of Florida cattle ranching, including fence laws, cowboy music (including songs by Bob Tinsley), stories (including recording of Bone Mizell story by Frog Smith), brands, and tools used. Cauley, a saddle maker, talks about saddles and their construction. He discusses tools and materials used, types and uses of saddles, as well as the life of a cowman, the use of dogs, and the clothing and tools used in the profession.
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a_s1576_11_c83-118 | Bartow Library Program: What is Folklife | Sound | Folklife Workshops (Adult education) Teaching of folklore Libraries Oral education Holidays and festivals Food Festivals Public speaking Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Bartow Library Program: What is Folklife
- Date
- 1983-06-20
- Description
- One audio cassettes. Presentation at the Bartow Public Library, in connection with the Pursuits and Pastimes exhibit, about folklife. Dyen, a folklorist with the Florida Bureau of Folklife, explains the profession using holidays and foods as her examples. She also explains the project and the Florida Folk Festival.
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Buddy Maddox demonstrating cast nets and oyster tongs | Buddy Maddox demonstrating cast nets and oyster tongs | Still Image | Casting (Fishing) Material culture Occupational groups Fishing Equipment and supplies Fishing nets Nets Oyster tongs Demonstrations Oyster fisheries Libraries Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
a_s1576_14_c84-090 | Buddy Maddox program | Sound | Blacksmiths Turpentiners Net maker Libraries Life histories Oral histories Occupational folklore Occupational groups Turpentine industry workers Turpentining Blacksmithing Net makers Fishing nets Maritime life Florida history Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Buddy Maddox program
- Date
- 1984-03-31
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Public program for NEH Library Grant: Turpentining, Blacksmithing, Castnet Making Buddy Maddox talks of growing up in the turpentining business with his father; his schooling; his marriage; working the ferry with his father; turpentine forests; blacksmithing career; cast net making; fishing.
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a_s1576_12_c84-010b | Cowboy musician Jim Bob Tinsley | Sound | Cowboys Life histories Interviews Oral histories Country music Country dancing Clogging Demonstrations Music performance Ranching Libraries Clog dancing Musicians Singers Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Cowboy musician Jim Bob Tinsley
- Date
- 1984-03-09
- Description
Two audio cassettes. C84-10: Interview with Jim Bob Tinsley and Dottie Tinsley as part of the Library Folklife Program; Jim Bob describes his early life and how he learned to play music and how he got into cowboy music; Woodmen of the World Band; joining the Navy playing in a band in Africa during World War II; tells stories about the songs he performs as well as about Gene Autry and Winston Churchill; Dottie describes clogging steps. C84-11: Continuation of interview and performance in C84-10; he continues discussing cowboy music and the songs he performs; vagabonds; WLS National Barndance; Dr. John R. Brinkley stations in Mexico and Texas; continuation of traditions in singing and writing cowboy songs; his book; Jim Reeves; his albums.
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