a_s1576_t82-052 | Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Basket maker Needleworkers Dollmakers Fieldwork Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Basket making Interviewing Interviews Sound recordings Sweetgrass baskets Oral histories Life histories Family history Palmetto weaving Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-11-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. The Osceolas discuss basket making - - including when and how they learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the basketry process. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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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 |
a_s1576_08_c83-037 | Annie Jimmie interview | Sound | Field recordings Interviews Oral narratives Native Americans Seminole Indians Chickees Clothing Patchwork Textile processes Sewing Needlework Mikasuki language Tailoring | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Annie Jimmie interview
- Date
- 1982-01-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Born in the Everglades and 74 years old at the time of the interview, Jimmie (through interpreter Jumper) discusses designing and making Seminole skirts and other garmets. Jimmie describes the Seminole words for "design," "skirt" and "top," and talks about the cross design on her skirt, other types of skirt designs, sewing with strips of colorful cloth, rick-rac, teaching her children and grandchildren the craft, and men in the tribe who sew, like Jimmie Osceola. In addition, she discusses the Green Corn Dance, playing the stickball game, women hunters, gardening, singing Christian songs, learning to sew from her mother, and living in a chickee.
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Asa May House in Capps, Florida | Asa May House in Capps, Florida | Still Image | Agriculture Architecture Houses Buildings Material culture Settlement patterns Farm buildings Greek Revival (architecture) Plantations Plantation life Plantation owner Farmer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Asa May House in Capps, Florida
- Date
- 1981-01-15
- Description
- Three black and white prints. Asa May was a cotton planter and owner of Rosewood Plantation, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house dates from c. 1840, and was made of cypress and heart pine. Capps is located South of Monticello, Florida.
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Aucilla River in Lamont, Florida | Aucilla River in Lamont, Florida | Still Image | Rivers Waterways Nature Environment Landscape | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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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Boat drivers at Wakulla Springs | Boat drivers at Wakulla Springs | Still Image | Tourists Tourism Ecotourism African Americans Fishes Boat drivers Boat driving Rivers Waterways Transportation Oral performance Nature Fauna Flora Birds Trees Amusement parks Wildlife watching industry Occupational groups Boat driver Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Boat drivers at Wakulla Springs
- Date
- 1980-10
- Description
- Eighty-one color slides. Images of Wakulla Springs boat drivers. Glass bottom boat tour over the deep springs had been going on since the late 1800s. Many of these drivers are descendents of those early drivers, and provide some of the same folk tales. One tale/feature was Henry the Pole Vaulting Fish, a bass fish that jumped over a pole (actually scratching its gills). The springs was developed as a tourist attraction in the 1930s (and became a Florida state park in 1987.) Drivers pictured: George Bower(640-657, 813-814); Jackson (765-781); Moretz (784-785); and Gavin (790-793). Henry the fish pictured in 759-763, 781. Also includes are images of the river, alligators, fish, cypress trees, and plant life.
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Boat tours at Homosassa Springs | Boat tours at Homosassa Springs | Still Image | Tourists Tourism Ecotourism African Americans Springs Boat drivers Boat driving Rivers Waterways Transportation Oral performance Nature Fauna Flora Birds Trees Amusement parks Wildlife watching industry Occupational groups Boat driver Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Boat tours at Homosassa Springs
- Date
- 1980-10
- Description
- Forty-two color slides. Images of Homosassa Springs boat tours and drivers. Homosassa Springs has been a tourist attraction since the 1920s. The incarnation of the attraction seen in these images dates from the 1960s. (The area is now a Florida state park.) Images are of the boat drivers ( Richard Strube, Cecil Johnson and Raymond Thompson) and the facilties, springs, fish, and tourists. Recordings of these tours can be found in S 1576, box 5.
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