| Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes | Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes | Still Image | Latinos
Farm life
Agriculture
Tractors
Farming
Farms
Labor
Workers
Migrants
Occupational groups
Crops
Migrant workers
Farm workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes
- Date
- 1985-09-06
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. Images are of Latino migrant workers harvesting sweet potatos; also includes images of pickers and tractor drivers. The Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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| Mango groves on Pine Island | Mango groves on Pine Island | Still Image | Tree farmers
Fieldwork
Mango
Harvesting
Crops
Trees
Fauna
Agriculture
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mango groves on Pine Island
- Date
- Description
- Nine color slides. Bryan manages Gulf Island Groves. The Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project was conducted under the direction of Barbara Beauchamp in two phases: 12 November 1987 through 31 January 1988 by Debbie Fant; and in February 1988 by Nancy Nusz. Using a 35mm camera and a Sony tape recorder, and funded through a NEA grant, the two fieldworkers spoke with over fifty informants in Manatee, Sarasota, Lee, Collier, and Charlotte counties, resulting in 20 participants chosen for a special SW Florida folklife area at the 36th Annual Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Large wooden farm building on Hwy 131 | Large wooden farm building on Hwy 131 | Still Image | Fieldwork
Material culture
Farm buildings
Structures
Frame buildings
Agriculture
Buildings
Architecture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Large wooden farm building on Hwy 131
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- Two color slides. The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
- Collection
| Kingsley Plantation | Kingsley Plantation | Still Image | Agriculture
Parks
Historic parks
Cultural parks
Park facilities
Plantations
Plantation life
Architecture
Buildings
Farm buildings
Houses
Furniture
African Americans
Land use
Slavery
Slaves dwellings
Florida history
Tabby (concrete) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kingsley Plantation
- Date
- 1980-12-12
- Description
- Ten black and white prints. Kingsley Plantation was owned by several planters and slave owners, including John McQueen, John McIntosh, Zephaniah Kingsley, and Anna Kingsley. It became a state park in the 1950s, and a National Park in 1989. P80-415 Kingsley Plantation P80-416 Grounds P80-417-419 Furniture in house P80-420-422 Interior images P80-423-425 Tabby slave cabins P80-426 Woods near plantation
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| a_s1685_07_tape15 | Karen Spooner interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Farmers
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Occupational folklore
Agriculture
Farm life
Family history
Sugarcane
Burning of land
Green beans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Karen Spooner interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-09-03
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Karen Spooner farmed Hub Spooner Farms with her husband John, She was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin originally, while his family had been farming the same land for several generations. Growing sugar and green beans, they were some of the only independent farmer sin the area. In the interview she discusses sugar farming; cane cutting; learning the trade; the Spooner family; migrant workers; burning fields; and the farm industry.
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| Justin Brown demonstrating cane cutting to students | Justin Brown demonstrating cane cutting to students | Still Image | Fieldwork
Classrooms
Schools
Elementary schools
Education
Teaching of folklore
Jamaican Americans
Sugar
Sugar crops
Sugarcane
Machetes
Agricultural implements
Agriculture
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Children
Farm workers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Justin Brown demonstrating cane cutting to students
- Date
- 1987-04-24
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. Demonstration for elementary school students. Brown began working for US Sugar in 1950 -- he was recruited by them in Jamaica. He was hired as a cane cutter, which was usually done by hand with a machete. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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| James Ambrose plowing his field | James Ambrose plowing his field | Still Image | Fieldwork
Plowing
Plows
Mules
Farming
Occupational groups
Tools
Agriculture
Domestic animals
Draft animals
Working animals
Farm workers
Farmers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
James Ambrose plowing his field
- Date
- 1983
- Description
- One color print (plus one black and white print and negatives). Duplicate of slide S83-407.
- Collection
| a_s1576_11_c83-123 | Jackson County Library Program: Agriculture | Sound | Farmers
Turpentiners
Folklife
Workshops (Adult education)
Teaching of folklore
Libraries
Oral education
Agriculture
Great Depression
Turpentine industry workers
Public speaking
Turpentining
Life histories
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Farming
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jackson County Library Program: Agriculture
- Date
- 1983-07-21
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of a program for the Jackson County Library on family agriculture and turpentining for the "Pursuits and Pastimes" series. The program, led by Doris Dyen, consists of discussions on basketry; growing herbs and spices; hunting for snakes; folk games; and cultural differences amongst ethnic groups. Includes talks by Fred Williams and Lloyd McMullian. On tape C83-124, McMullian discusses hog farming; preparing and curing hogs; President Hoover and life during the Great Depression; African Americans and voting; company stores; and ways to farm and uses for turpentine.
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| a_s1576_t85-211 | Interview with Myakka City residents Joe and Libby Warner | Sound | Ranchers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Family history
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Ranch life
Ranching
Farm life
Local history
Cattle diseases
Screwworm
Fences
Agriculture
Turpentining
Meat | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City residents Joe and Libby Warner
- Date
- 1984-04-14
- Description
- Three reel to reels. The Warners, longtime Myakka ranchers, talk about cattle ranching, rodeos, raising horses and cattle, cattle diseases, butchering and canning meat, coprorate versus family ranching, fencing land, turpentining, timber, rounding up cattle, rural development, and the history of cows in Manatee county. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
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| a_s1576_10_c83-102 | Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr. | Sound | Turpentiners
Farmer
Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
Tractors
Mules | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr.
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-102: Macmillan discussed how Two Egg, Florida, and Paramour, Florida, were named; his birth in Grand Ridge, Florida, in 1910; his and his father's work in turpentining; getting into the farming business after the turpentining industry's decline; farming with mules and, later, with tractors in the 1930s; raising peanuts, soy beans, and corn; his son's work in cattle farming; blacksmithing; canning and preserving food; and magic and omens in farming. He also tell stories about voting Republican due to promises of racial equality and talks about "Hoover Days" and the Depression; old farming sayings and practices; and making moonshine from cane skimmings. C83-103: McMullian discusses visiting the Florida Folk Festival; collecting antique engines as a hobby; the turpentining process; tally calls and tally boards; "raking" trees; enjoying his work in the turpentine industry; bank loans; and trains and business transportation. In addition, he tells a story about the first toilet he ever saw and talks about losing crops in droughts and from nematodes; his father's employment in a large farm; fiddle and piano music and dances; Sacred Harp music; African-Americans; square dancing and clogging; serenades, housewarmings, and quilting parties; and farming in cold weather.
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