| Yiddish katubut (ketubah) art | Yiddish katubut (ketubah) art | Still Image | Jews
Religious art
Religion
Marriage
Marriage rites
Judaism
Jews United States
Marriage contracts
Art
Painting
Legal contract
Legal practices
Material culture
Ketubah
Arts, Jewish
Decorative arts
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Yiddish katubut (ketubah) art
- Date
- 1979-06-15
- Description
- Three black and white prints with negatives. Nancy Greenberg displaying her Jewish marriage contract art, known as Katubut/Katabbah. Jewish law requires men to give women a marriage contract on their wedding day. A katubbah, usually written in Yiddish, guarantees her financial rights upon his death. The contracts are designed with art and motifs of the local Jewish community. 15 June 1979.
- Collection
| Yboy City public structures | Yboy City public structures | Still Image | Sculpture
Art
Statues
Architecture
Figurines
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Yboy City public structures
- Date
- Description
- Two black and white prints. P80-229 Fountain in Ybor City. P80-230 Statue of mother and child.
- Collection
| Yasuko Dawson demonstrating to students how to do origami | Yasuko Dawson demonstrating to students how to do origami | Still Image | Schools
Demonstrations
Classrooms
Japanese Americans
Students
Teaching of folklore
Education
Origami
Paper work
Paper art
Craft
Arts, Japanese
Asian American arts
Asian Americans
Kimonos
Clothing and dress
Art
Artisans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Yasuko Dawson demonstrating to students how to do origami
- Date
- 1985-03-19
- Description
- Thirty-seven color slides. Demonstration at Stockton Elementary School. Origami is the Japanese art of paperfolding to create sculptures and symbolic shapes. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curricula. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| WPA mural of the Barefoot Mailman in the West Palm Beach Post Office | WPA mural of the Barefoot Mailman in the West Palm Beach Post Office | Still Image | Artists
Fieldwork
Painting
Mural painting and decoration
Murals
New Deal, 1933-1939
United States. Work Projects Administration
Postal service
Post office buildings
Art
Decorative arts
Painters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
WPA mural of the Barefoot Mailman in the West Palm Beach Post Office
- Date
- 1987-09-23
- Description
- Three color slides. Painted in 1940 as part of the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)by artist Stevan Dohanos. The three paintings were part of a six-panel narrative series about James Hamilton, known locally as the Barefoot Mailman. He delivered mail in the then wild South Florida environs. He died in 1887 while on the job. Artist Dohanos of Ohio was known for his 100-plus Saturday Evening Post covers. 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.
- Collection
| Wooden wildlife carvings by Roswell Harrington | Wooden wildlife carvings by Roswell Harrington | Still Image | Wood carvers
Farmer
Fieldwork
Wildlife wood-carving
Figurines
Wood carving
Wood craft
Art
Decorative arts
Material culture
Canes
Carvers (Decorative artists) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wooden wildlife carvings by Roswell Harrington
- Date
- 1992-03-07
- Description
- Nineteen color slides. Images of animal wood carvings (mostly of birds) in Harrington's house, a former farmer. In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
- Collection
| Wooden carvings by Payton Bembry, Sr | Wooden carvings by Payton Bembry, Sr | Still Image | Artists
Wood carvers
Fieldwork
Art
Wood carving
Wood craft
Woodwork
Sculpture
Metal craft
Figurines
Animals
Material culture
Decorative arts
Carvers (Decorative artists) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wooden carvings by Payton Bembry, Sr
- Date
- 1981-09-08
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. Slide S82-1007 is missing. 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
| Woodcarver Thomas Penney | Woodcarver Thomas Penney | Still Image | Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers
Fieldwork
Chain saws
Wood carving
Decorative arts
Woodworking tools
Art
Figurines
Statues
Material culture
Wildlife wood-carving | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Woodcarver Thomas Penney
- Date
- 1984-11
- Description
- Four color slides. From Canada, Penney travels the country carving wood signs for businesses. Here, Penney carves a bear with a chainsaw. Images created as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program. The 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, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Wood carvings by Susan Yohn | Wood carvings by Susan Yohn | Still Image | Fieldwork
Wood carving
Wood craft
Artists
Artisans
Art
Material culture
Figurines
Cypress
Sculpture
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wood carvings by Susan Yohn
- Date
- 1985-02-09
- Description
- Nineteen color slides. Images of carvings by Susan Yohn, a self-taught wood carver and artist. Her carvings painted figurines and busts made from cypress knees. There are also three images of Yohn in her workshop (1874-1876). In winter 1985, the Bureau joined with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the 'St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area' at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Wood carver Jose Orta | Wood carver Jose Orta | Still Image | Fieldwork
Latinos
Puerto Ricans
Woodwork
Material culture
Wood carving
Art
Artisans
Figurines
Workshops
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wood carver Jose Orta
- Date
- 1985-07-30
- Description
- Seven color slides. 4989-4993: Orta holding his carvings; 4994-4995: Orta's workshop. The 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.
- Collection
| Wood carver John (J.T.) Albert | Wood carver John (J.T.) Albert | Still Image | Woodwork
Wood carving
Wood
Wood craft
Material culture
Art
Decorative arts
Sculpture
Fieldwork
Folklorists
Wood carvers
Carvers (Decorative artists) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wood carver John (J.T.) Albert
- Date
- 1979-11-19
- Description
- Nineteen black and white prints. Photos of wood carver Albert with examples of his work. P79-844 includes folklorist Peggy Bulger.
- Collection
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