| Images of the Fiesta La Primavera in Moore Haven | Images of the Fiesta La Primavera in Moore Haven | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Fieldwork
Festivals
Latinos
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Concerts
Performing arts
Music performance
Dance
Singing
Clothing and dress
Community culture
Social gatherings
Folk dance
Dancers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the Fiesta La Primavera in Moore Haven
- Date
- 1992-03-08
- Description
- 111 color slides. Images of the Fiesta La Primavera, including various Mexican American bands, a Florida-based Mexican dance group (Grupo Sevezz), and local Mexican American residents dancing. For recordings of the Festival, see S 1624, box 3, tapes 5-8. 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
| Items for sale at Meat World in Seville, Florida | Items for sale at Meat World in Seville, Florida | Still Image | Fieldwork
Selling
Material culture
Specialty stores
Stores, retail
Community culture
Community enterprise
Latinos
Food industry and trade
Food
Mexican Americans
Pinatas
Signs (commercial)
Vegetables
Cookery (Vegetables) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Items for sale at Meat World in Seville, Florida
- Date
- 1985-03-11
- Description
- Fourteen color slides. Images of products sold in Meat World, a Mexican American grocery store in Pierson. Includes images of vegetables, canned goods, and pinatas. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted 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
| Jamaican Epiphany celebration in Miami | Jamaican Epiphany celebration in Miami | Still Image | Dancers
Holidays and festivals
Arts, Jamaican
Religious rites
Catholics
Jamaican Americans
Community culture
Community rites
Religion
Priests
Christianity
Food preparation
Dance
Special events
Epiphany | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Jamaican Epiphany celebration in Miami
- Date
- 1990-01-05
- Description
- One proof sheet with 36 black and white images (plus negatives.) Epiphany is a Greek word meaning to make known, and refers to the visit of the Magi to Christ,thereby making him known to the world. It is the climax of the twelve days of Christmas.
- Collection
| Joe Jumper demonstrating the use of ball game sticks | Joe Jumper demonstrating the use of ball game sticks | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Mikasuki Indians
Indian reservations
Ball games
Games
Community culture
Material culture
Leisure
Demonstrations | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Joe Jumper demonstrating the use of ball game sticks
- Date
- 1982
- Description
- Three color slides. The images 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 with traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes may be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
- Collection
| Key West architecture | Key West architecture | Still Image | Fieldwork
Architecture
Buildings
Structures
Houses
Community culture
Landscape | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Key West architecture
- Date
- 1977-02
- Description
- Twenty color slides. None of the buildings are identified.
- Collection
| Konbo Guinyn Band performing in Miami | Konbo Guinyn Band performing in Miami | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Musicians
Music performance
Fieldwork
Drum music
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans
Community culture
Community rites
Drummers (Musicians)
Performing arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| La Placita Grocery in West Palm Beach | La Placita Grocery in West Palm Beach | Still Image | Merchants
Fieldwork
Community culture
Specialty stores
Stores, retail
Latinos
Selling
Signs (commercial)
Food industry and trade
Food | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
La Placita Grocery in West Palm Beach
- Date
- 1988-03
- Description
- Six color slides. Catered primarily to Latino migrant farm workers. Images of the storefront and products sold. 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
| Men playing dominoes in Little Havana, Miami | Men playing dominoes in Little Havana, Miami | Still Image | Fieldwork
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Games
Dominoes
Community culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Mexican dance at the Quality Inn in Deland | Mexican dance at the Quality Inn in Deland | Still Image | Fieldwork
Collecting
Research methods
Dance
Accordions
Hotels
Special events
Community culture
Latinos
Body movement
Musical groups
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Ethnicity, Mexico
Bands (Music)
Dancers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mexican dance at the Quality Inn in Deland
- Date
- 1985-02-23
- Description
- Forty color slides. Images of a Mexican American dance at a Quality Inn, hosted by the Castillo family. Includes dancers and the musicians, Los Errentes de Chua Nuevo Leon, providing the dance music. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted 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
| Mexican fiesta celebration in Wahneta | Mexican fiesta celebration in Wahneta | Still Image | Fieldwork
Community culture
Community rites
Festivals
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Children | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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