Workers at a fish house in Port St. Joe | Workers at a fish house in Port St. Joe | Still Image | Fishers Merchants Fieldwork Seafood industry Selling seafood Retail trade Dealers (Retail trade) Workplace Occupational groups Machinery Fisheries processing Fishery processing plants Buildings | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Workers at a fish house in Port St. Joe
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- 1985
- Description
- Ten color slides. Taken at Wood's Fresh and Frozen fish house. Photos taken during fieldwork for video documentary on Florida shrimping called Fishing All My Days, and was made by the Florida Folklife Program, and the University of Florida (WUFT-TV).
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Street vendor Jim Goddard selling bait, tackle, and boiled peanuts | Street vendor Jim Goddard selling bait, tackle, and boiled peanuts | Still Image | Fieldwork Cookery (Peanuts) Peanuts Cooking and dining Food Food industry and trade Food preparation Boiling (Cookery) Outdoor cookery Community enterprise Dealers (Retail trade) Selling Street vendors Shrimps Fishing baits Fishing tackle Cooks Merchants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Street vendor Jim Goddard selling bait, tackle, and boiled peanuts
- Date
- 1988-06
- Description
- Twenty color slides. For an interview with Goddard, see S 1618, box 5, tape 4. 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 curriculum. 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.
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Roadside boiled peanut stand | Roadside boiled peanut stand | Still Image | Fieldwork Cookery (Peanuts) Peanuts Dealers (Retail trade) Street vendors Community enterprise Boiling (Cookery) Food industry and trade Food preparation Cooks Merchants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Roadside boiled peanut stand
- Date
- 1985-09-10
- Description
- Eleven color slides. Roadside boiled peanut stand on Heckscher Drive in North Jacksonville. 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 curriculum. 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.
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Orange fruit stand near Lake Wales | Orange fruit stand near Lake Wales | Still Image | Merchants Fieldwork Selling Orange industry Oranges Vending stands Signs (commercial) Signs and signboards Citrus fruit industry Citrus industry Food industry and trade Food preparation Retail trade Stores, retail Dealers (Retail trade) Economic practices Street vendors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Orange fruit stand near Lake Wales
- Date
- 1983
- Description
- One proof sheet with 30 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of McClures fruit stand near Lake Wales.
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Nix Brothers Seafood and netmaking shop | Nix Brothers Seafood and netmaking shop | Still Image | Fieldwork Seafood industry Selling seafood Netmaking Dealers (Retail trade) Fisheries Community enterprise Business Occupational groups Workplace Merchants Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Minorcan Folklife Area Fieldwork: Foodways | Minorcan Folklife Area Fieldwork: Foodways | Still Image | Dealers (retail trade) Fieldwork Cookery (Peppers) Gardening Gardens Plants Flora Retail trade Signs (commercial) Signs and signboards Advertising Commercial art Vegetables Vending stands Stores, retail Economic practices Gardeners | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Minorcan Folklife Area Fieldwork: Foodways
- Date
- 1982-10-28
- Description
- One proof sheet with 19 black and white prints (plus negatives). Images of a vegetable and fruit stand; and George Van der Bush's datil pepper garden. Created as research for the Minorcan Folklife Area for the 1983 Florida Folk Festival.
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a_s1592_06_tape06 | Interview with seafood dealer George Kirvin | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Fishing Seafood gathering Seafood industry Shrimpers (persons) Stores, retail Boats and boating Mullet fisheries Local history Family history Mullet fishing Oyster tongs Oyster shucking Weather Merchants Dealers (Retail trade) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with seafood dealer George Kirvin
- Date
- 1986-10-09
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with well-known seafood dealer Kirvin. In 1965, he won a Governor's Award for contribution to Florida seafood. He discusses his start as a fisher and a boat captain; Apalachicola Bay; his start in dealing seafood in 1960s; local contributions and activities; Governor's Award; rifts between commerical and sports fishing; politics; family history; learning fishing; local history; fishing; seining; mullet fishing; locating fish; oystering; and hurricanes. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_06_tape08 | Interview with oyster shuckers Virginia Duggar and Nanette Lolley | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Fishing Seafood gathering Seafood industry Shrimpers (persons) Stores, retail Boats and boating Mullet fisheries Dealers (Retail trade) Local history Family history Mullet fishing Oyster tongs Oyster shucking Weather Shuckers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with oyster shuckers Virginia Duggar and Nanette Lolley
- Date
- 1986-10-10
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with oyster shuckers Duggar and Lolley. They discuss family history; George Kirvin (Duggar's first boss); local oysters; job conditions; shucking; how they learned the craft; Loys Cain; tools for shucking; and fishing superstitions. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1576_23_c86-197 | Interview with oyster fisher Mike Hilchey | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Oral histories Life histories Oysters Oyster fisheries Oyster industries Occupational groups Occupational folklore Seafood gathering Seafood industry Cooking and dining Cookery (Seafood) Cookery (Oysters) Fisheries Dealers (Retail trade) Fishing Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with oyster fisher Mike Hilchey
- Date
- 1985-08-28
- Description
- One audio cassette. Discusses Hilchey's family involvement in oyster fishing (going back to his great-grandfather); boat making; oyster regulation; learning oystering; descriptions of local oyster areas such as Simpson's Creek; vernacular names for oysters; names of oyster beds; oyster seasons; local oyster men; kinship ties in the business; his customers; cooking and serving oysters; and change in the business. 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 curriculum. 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.
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a_s1592_08_reel01 | Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins | Sound | Fieldwork Seafood industry Fisheries processing Fishery processing plants Selling seafood Oyster fisheries Oyster industries Oyster shucking Oysters Fishing Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Life histories Oral narratives Oyster tongs Fishers Merchants Dealers (retail trade) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins
- Date
- 1986-10-16
- Description
- Two reel to reels (also copied onto audio cassette). Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins. He discusses his early life in Pensacola; learning the oyster fishing trade; local oystermen; opening his own seafood business; the oystering process; boats; the seafood industry; harvesting clams; Florida Seafood Festival; and ecological changes to Bay. Also available on reel to reels (reels 6-7). Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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