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1990 Rural Folklife Days

Date: 1990-11
Description: Three photographic proof sheets, with 99 black and white images. Index available with sheets. Sheet 1: Images 1-23: Unidentified people making lye soap Images 27-30, 31-33,35: Marie Navis making cane sugar Images 34, 36: Ruby Shaw making peanut brittle Sheet 2 Images 2-13:
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1990 Rural Folklife Days

Alberta Williams making lye soap

Date: 1985-01
Description: Twenty-five color slides. Demonstrating lye soap making at Mami Agnes Elementary School. Slides 4019-4028 are in volume 38. 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, 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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Alberta Williams making lye soap

Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library

Date: 1984-04-17
Description: Twenty color slides. Images of Seminole Alice Billie sewing traditional Seminole clothing at a Miami public library. Part of a National Endowment for the Arts funded folklife program, presented at various libraries across the state, using local talent. A few of the images of Billie sewing can be found on the Florida photographic Collection website.
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Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library

Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch

Date: 1986-03
Description: Seven color slides. Created as research for the Craft Demonstration Area of the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. 1186: Quilt hanging on front porch; 1220 - 1225: Alma with her quilts.
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Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch

Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets

Date: 1989-01
Description: Eleven color slides. Images of Prescott and her split white oak baskets.
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Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets

Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork

Date: 1982
Description: Thirty-eight color slides. Images taken at the Hollywood reservation library. 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.
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Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork

Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams

Date: 1988-03
Description: Seven black and white negatives. Rufus Adams and apprentice(stepdaughter) Annie Sellers making corn shuck bottomed chairs. Rufus Adams was born in Georgia in 1893. In 1940, Adams and his wife moved to Mayo, Florida. There he worked as a tenant tobacco farmer. From his wife he learned make corn shuck chair bottoms. He soon became known as the 'chair man.'
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Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman

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Description: Two black and white prints. Images of Ella Mae Huffman making pine needle baskets. 7 May 1978.
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Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket

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Description: One black and white print. Image of Huffman weaving a pine needle basket. See also S 1577, box 16, folder 29. c. 1977
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Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket

Basket maker Lucreaty Clark

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Description: Two black and white prints. Images were taken by McCallum for the Southern Folklife Center in Memphis, tennessee. Clark was 72 years old at time. 17 April 1978.
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Basket maker Lucreaty Clark

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Alberta Williams making lye soap	Alberta Williams making lye soap	Still Image	Education Schools African Americans Demonstrations Students Teaching of folklore Classrooms Domestic arts Soap Lye	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library	Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library	Still Image	Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Sewing Native Americans Textiles Demonstrations Textile arts Clothing and dress Material culture Domestic arts Equipment, domestic arts Libraries Needleworkers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch	Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch	Still Image	Quiltmakers Material culture Textiles Craft Quilts Textile arts Domestic arts Quilting Decorative arts Design Porches	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets	Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets	Still Image	Basket maker Material culture Baskets Basket making Craft Containers Wood Domestic arts Woven goods White oak	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork	Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork	Still Image	Seminole Indians Native Americans Indian reservations Sewing Patchwork Textile arts Design Domestic arts Material culture Equipment, domestic arts Demonstrations Needlework Textiles Needleworkers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams	Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams	Still Image	Material culture Chairs Furniture Cornhusk craft Domestic arts Woodwork Apprentices Women apprentices Fieldwork (educational method) Craft African Americans Chair caning Furniture maker Chair-makers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman	Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman	Still Image	Pine needle crafts Basket making Baskets Material culture Women weavers African Americans Craft Containers Domestic arts Basket maker	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket	Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket	Still Image	Basket making Baskets Pine needle crafts Containers Weaving Women weavers Material culture Domestic arts Basket maker	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Basket maker Lucreaty Clark	Basket maker Lucreaty Clark	Still Image	Basket making Baskets Material culture White oak Containers African Americans Craft Woven goods Domestic arts Basket maker	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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1990 Rural Folklife Days

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Alberta Williams making lye soap

Alberta Williams making lye soap

Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library

Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library

Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch

Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch

Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets

Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets

Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork

Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork

Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams

Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket

Basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Basket maker Lucreaty Clark

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1990 Rural Folklife Days

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Alberta Williams making lye soap

Alberta Williams making lye soap

Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library

Alice Billie sewing in a Miami public library

Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch

Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch

Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets

Ann Prescott's spilt white oak baskets

Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork

Annie Jimmie sewing traditional Seminole patchwork

Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams

Annie Sellers learning how to make chairs from Rufus Adams

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket

Basket maker Ella Mae Huffman weaving a pine needle basket

Basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Basket maker Lucreaty Clark