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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Personal Name is exactly "Hepburn, Marcus"
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Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company

Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company
Date
1986-11-13
Description
Four contact sheets with 139 black and white images; plus negatives and logs. To shuck an oyster means to remove the meat of the oyster from its shell. This was often done before the product was shipped to seafood dealers and restaurants. Sheets in envelope 31 feature images of folklorists Hepburn, Taylor, and Loomis talking with and taking slides of fish house workers. Collector Hepburn was from Dept. of Community Affairs, and joined the project after it began. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
Collection
Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company

Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company
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Oyster shucking
Blue collar workers
Community enterprise
Maritime life
Oysters
Work
Workplace
Food preparation
Seafood
Labor
Occupational groups
Folklorists
Photography
Research methods
Fishery processing plants
Fisheries processing
Employees
Shuckers
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