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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Subject is exactly "Blacksmithing"
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Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk Festival

Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk Festival
Date
1995-07-13
Description
One video recording. (3/4 tape; 28 minutes)An episode of the Florida Public Television series, "Florida Crossroads." Filmed by Florida Public television (through a Florida Dept. of Education grant), the episode features performances, demonstrations, interviews, and presentations at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (26-28 May). Included are interviews with folklorists, park employees, musicians, artisans, and park attendees, as well examples of the folklife on display at the Festival.
Collection
Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk Festival

Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk Festival
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 1 of 15)

Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 1 of 15)
Date
1991-05-25
Description
One video recording (3/4" tape; 22 minutes) Unedited footage (some of it contains no audio) of the 1991 Florida Folk Festival. Include images of the entrance sign, various crafts and artisans (jewelry, blacksmith, chair making) and performers. Dinella and Geiger perform several unidentified songs at the Old Marble Stage; Washington DC-based duo Cephas and Wiggins perform several blues songs at the Folklife Area/Stage III, as did pianist McBride. For recordings of performances, see S 1576: Cephas & Wiggins (D91-8); McBride (D91-7), and Dinella & Geiger (T91-72).
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Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 1 of 15)

Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 1 of 15)
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 4 of 15)

Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 4 of 15)
Date
1991-05-25
Description
One video recording (3/4" tape; 22 minutes) Unedited footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festival. Footage of Gomez using a backstrap loom; Leonard making palmetto hats; and various craft demonstrations: blacksmiths, Guatemalan masks, cotton spinning, paintings, jewelry, and cooking.
Collection
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 4 of 15)

Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 4 of 15)
Video recording of the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3 of 15)

Video recording of the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3 of 15)
Date
1984-05-25
Description
One video cassette (3/4" tape). Video of the Ranch Folklife Area, including branding, an 1876 Cow Camp (with explanations of the cracker whip sounds and cow hunting), a Calf Scramble with Gurney Geiger and Curly Dekle, blacksmithing, and "Frog" Smith describing table salt remedy for cleaning out a fire.
Collection
Video recording of the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3 of 15)

Video recording of the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3 of 15)
Buddy Maddox program

Buddy Maddox program
Date
1984-03-31
Description
Two audio cassettes. Public program for NEH Library Grant: Turpentining, Blacksmithing, Castnet Making Buddy Maddox talks of growing up in the turpentining business with his father; his schooling; his marriage; working the ferry with his father; turpentine forests; blacksmithing career; cast net making; fishing.
Collection
Buddy Maddox program

Buddy Maddox program
Dale Carmean interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Dale Carmean interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
Date
1987-08-26
Description
One audio cassette. Carmean was born in Mishawake, Indiana, where he learned blacksmithing from a friend. After a stint in the US Army, he returned to begin horseshoeing. He moved to Florida in 1959. In the interview, he discussed the horseshoe trade; tools used; types of shoes; special shoes for polo; learning blacksmithing and horseshoeing; moving to Florida; the biology of horse hooves; riding horses; and shaping the shoe.
Collection
Dale Carmean interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Dale Carmean interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page

Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page
Date
1989-06-23
Description
One audio cassete. Page discusses blacksmith.
Collection
Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page

Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page
Interview with blacksmith Jim Tucker

Interview with blacksmith Jim Tucker
Date
1986-12-12
Description
One audio cassette. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
Collection
Interview with blacksmith Jim Tucker

Interview with blacksmith Jim Tucker
Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains
Date
1977
Description
One audio cassette. Side 1: Rains describes how he started working as a blacksmith in 1912; talks about the projects he works on; talks about how he was born in and raised in the same home he still lives in; describes how his father was also a blacksmith and his brother taught him much of the trade; talks about how he gets business for his shop. On Side 2, he discusses shoeing horses; sharpening; tractors; using hickory to make ax handles.
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Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains
Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains
Date
1978-04-17
Description
One audio cassette. Side 1, C78-48: Rains, born December 24, 1894, discusses wrought ironwork. He learned the trade from his father, a former slave from Americus, Georgia. Rains began the practice himself in 1912. He discusses his work on wagons, wheels, and tools and talks of how he does restoration work for historical societies. Side 2, C78-48: Rains discusses his philosophy on life, making decorative hinges and tie backs; making unusual items; making white oak baskets; work on the farm, etc. Side 1, C78-49: Discusses his family, his blacksmith shop and equipment, his church, his membership in the Farmers' Union, Elizabethan Missionary Baptist Church, exhibiting for fairs and events, shoeing horses, etc.
Collection
Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk FestivalFlorida Crossroads: Florida's Folk FestivalMoving ImageSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Artisans
Leather workers
Metal-workers
Dancers
Whip maker
Secretary of State
Public officer
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Video recording
Television
Singing
Park Ranger
Saddles
Leather craft
Craft
Whipcracking
Whips
Fiddle music
Fiddlers
Old time music
Bandura
Hammer dulcimer
Dulcimer music
A capella singers
A capella singing
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Signs and signboards
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Workshops (Adult education)
Yodeling
Storytelling
Dance
Cooking and dining
Food preparation
Basket making
Basket work
Blacksmithing
Guitar music
Interviews
Interviewing on television
Secretaries of State (State governments)
Bands (Music)
Folklorists
Volunteers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 1 of 15)Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 1 of 15)Moving ImageFestivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Performing arts
Blues (Music)
Piano music (Blues)
Pianists
African Americans
Folk singers
Singing
Guitar music
Harmonica music
Basket making
Basket work
Basketry
White oak
Blacksmithing
Jewelry making
Craft
Singers
Musicians
Guitarist
Basket maker
Blues singers
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Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 4 of 15)Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 4 of 15)Moving ImageWeavers
Spinner
Painters
Artists
Blacksmiths
Video recording
Television
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Palmetto weaving
Hats
Demonstrations
Women weavers
Weaving
Spinning wheels
Blacksmithing
Jewelry
Tents
Decorative arts
Painting
Food preparation
Cookware
Masks
Cooks		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
Video recording of the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3 of 15)Video recording of the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (Video 3 of 15)Moving ImageCowboys
Blacksmiths
Storytellers
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Special events
Blacksmithing
Ranch life
Metalwork
Ranching
Storytelling
Cattle
Animals
Oral narratives
Cattle brands
Ranchers
Rodeo performers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
a_s1576_14_c84-090Buddy Maddox programSoundBlacksmiths
Turpentiners
Net maker
Libraries
Life histories
Oral histories
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Turpentine industry workers
Turpentining
Blacksmithing
Net makers
Fishing nets
Maritime life
Florida history
Fishers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1685_05_tape01Dale Carmean interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundBlacksmithing
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Horseshoes
Working animals
Horse trading
Horses
Metalworking
Metal casting		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1680_02_tape02Interview with blacksmith Buddy PageSoundBlacksmiths
Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Sound recordings
Blacksmithing
Metal craft		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1708_05_tape12Interview with blacksmith Jim TuckerSoundFieldwork
Oral histories
Life histories
Sound recordings
Interviews
Occupational groups
Blacksmithing
Metal craft
Metalwork
Ranchers
Blacksmiths		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-032Interview with blacksmith Thomas RainsSoundBlacksmiths
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral narratives
African Americans
Blacksmithing
Metal craft
Metalwork
Occupational groups
Horseshoers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_02_c78-048Interview with blacksmith Thomas RainsSoundInterviews
Metalwork
Occupational groups
Occupational training
Blacksmithing
Metal craft
Family history
Life histories
Metal products
Slavery
African Americans
Labor
Labor unions
Fieldwork
Blacksmiths		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg