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Alex McBride performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Date: 1990-05-27
Description: One reel to reel recording. (also avaiable on audio cassette, C90-55.) Walker served as emcee.
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Alex McBride performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Alex McBride performing piano blues at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Date: 1991-05-25
Description: One reel to reel recording. Fant served as the emcee.
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Alex McBride performing piano blues at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

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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Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project

Amigo Male Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Date: 1954-10-18
Description: One reel to reel recording. The Amigo Male Singers of north central Florida were directed by Alfonso Levy of Lake City.
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Amigo Male Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Angelus Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

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Description: One reel to reel recording. The Angelus Singers were from Orlando. They were directed by W. Ivan Wilder.
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Angelus Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1979-06-06
Description: One reel to reel. Taylor discusses her life and career as a midwife. Topics include family history; training with a local doctor; childbirth; medicinal treatments; pre-natal care; her first delivery in 1953; complications in childbirth including tearing, placenta, twins, and breached births; birth-related superstitions; labor pains; and monetary charges. Bonnie Carden, another midwife, also joins in towards the end of the interview.
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Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Date: 1953-05
Description: One reel to reel recording.
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Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

"Banjo" Eddie Goldhill performance at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage

Date: 1957-05-04
Description: Fifth part of one audiotape recording. Thelma Boltin serves as emcee. Goldhill (banjo) played one unidentified tune. He was from Jacksonville, Fla.
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"Banjo" Eddie Goldhill performance at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage

Barking Spiders String Band performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Date: 1990-05-27
Description: One reel to reel recording. Walker served as emcee. The group was from Tallahassee.
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Barking Spiders String Band performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Belle of Suwannee boat tour at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Date: 1969
Description: One reel to reel recording. The Memorial offered boat tours on the Suwannee River on the Belle of the Suwannee tour boat.
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Belle of Suwannee boat tour at the Stephen Foster Memorial

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a_s1576_t90-146a	Alex McBride performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Piano music (Blues) Pianos Blues (Music) African Americans Singers Blues singers Musicians Pianists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t91-081	Alex McBride performing piano blues at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Piano music Singing Piano music (Blues) Blues (Music) African Americans Blues singers Musicians Pianists Singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
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
a_s2043_00045	Amigo Male Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial	Sound	Music performance Performing arts Singing Musical groups African Americans Choirs (music) Choir singing Choruses Singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2043_00083	Angelus Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial	Sound	Concerts Music performance Performing arts Singing Singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t79-005	Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Fieldwork Interviews Oral history Personal experience narratives African Americans Midwifery Occupational groups Occupational training Health Labor Children Natural medicine Natural childbirth Healers Family history Beliefs and cultures Midwives	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2043_00042	Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial	Sound	Storytelling Performing arts Oral narratives Oral performance Animal tales African Americans Storytellers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t77-060e	"Banjo" Eddie Goldhill performance at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage	sound	Florida Folk Festival Folk festivals Music -- Performance Banjo music	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t90-144a	Barking Spiders String Band performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)	Sound	Singers Bands (Music) Musical groups Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance String bands String instruments Stringband music Old time music Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2043_00250	Belle of Suwannee boat tour at the Stephen Foster Memorial	Sound	Excursion boats Tour guides Boating Boat operators Tourism workers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Alex McBride performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Alex McBride performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Alex McBride performing piano blues at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Alex McBride performing piano blues at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project

Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project

Amigo Male Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Amigo Male Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Angelus Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Angelus Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

"Banjo" Eddie Goldhill performance at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage

"Banjo" Eddie Goldhill performance at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage

Barking Spiders String Band performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Barking Spiders String Band performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Belle of Suwannee boat tour at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Belle of Suwannee boat tour at the Stephen Foster Memorial

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Alex McBride performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Alex McBride performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Alex McBride performing piano blues at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Alex McBride performing piano blues at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project

Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project

Amigo Male Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Amigo Male Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Angelus Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Angelus Singers performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

"Banjo" Eddie Goldhill performance at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage

"Banjo" Eddie Goldhill performance at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage

Barking Spiders String Band performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Barking Spiders String Band performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Belle of Suwannee boat tour at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Belle of Suwannee boat tour at the Stephen Foster Memorial