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Avis Cason cutting sugarcane for students at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Date: 1990-11-13
Description: Five color slides. This festival was held each year at the Stephen Foster Center by the Florida Folklife Program.
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Avis Cason cutting sugarcane for students at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting

Date: 1987-04-28
Description: Seventeen color slides. Images of Sanchez talking one on one with students. Sanchez oversees cane burning and cutting, as well as recruiting workers for a local sugar grower. His father was rancher in Cuba, who left as political exiles in the 1960s. 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.
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Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Date: 1989-11
Description: Ninety-seven color slides. Images of cane grinding at the Dudley Farms complex. Today a state park, Dudley Farms had been used as the Dudley family farm since the 1840s. Donated to the state in 1984 by Myrtle Dudley, the Bureau of Florida Folklife was contracted by the Florida Park Service to survey the sugarcane grinding complex at the farms. The final result, as a report of the findings,is available in S 1597.
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Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex

Date: 1989-11
Description: Twelve proof sheets with 384 black and white images. Images of cane grinding at the Dudley Farms complex. Today a state park, Dudley Farms had been used as the Dudley family farm since the 1840s. Donated to the state in 1984 by Myrtle Dudley, the Bureau of Florida Folklife was contracted by the Florida Park Service to survey the sugarcane grinding complex at the farm. The final result was a report of the Bureau's findings, available in S 1597. Logs are included with the proof sheets.
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Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex

Citrus harvesters at work

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Description: One black and white print. Karl Holland was the photographer for the Florida Dept. of Commerce.
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Citrus harvesters at work

Citrus worker Sonny Trask

Date: 1994-02-23
Description: One proof sheet and 17 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of Trask bagging oranges.
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Citrus worker Sonny Trask

Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days

Date: 1991-11
Description: Thirty-nine color slides. Images of various traditions, including lye soap making, cooking cane syrup, and making quilts demonstrated at the Rural Folklife Days. This festival was held each year at the Stephen Foster Center by the Florida Folklife Program.
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Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days

Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting

Date: 1982
Description: One proof sheet with nineteen black and images. 1-2: John Albert with students; 3-19: John Linder on a harvest ladder, picking oranges with a pull-boy tool.
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Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting

Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City

Date: 1983-10-21
Description: One color slide. Three folklife demonstrators: Adams (broom maker), Porter (quilter) and Lanier (corn husker) in Lake City. Part of the 1983 Folk Arts in the Schools program
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Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City

East Indian grape arbor

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Description: Eight color slides. The Metro-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.
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East Indian grape arbor

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Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting	Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting	Still Image	Fieldwork Classrooms Schools Elementary schools Education Occupational training Cuban Americans Sugar Sugar crops Sugarcane Oral education Agricultural implements Agriculture Occupational folklore Occupational groups Children Farm workers Students	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex	Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex	Still Image	Farmers Farm buildings Farm life Farm workers Sugarcane Sugarcane grinding Agriculture Material culture Family farming Cash crops Sugar crops Architecture Food industry and trade Structures Cane syrup Food preparation	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex	Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex	Still Image	Farmers Farm buildings Agriculture Architecture Structures Family farming Farm life Farm workers Farms Sugar crops Sugarcane grinding Sugarcane products Cane syrup Material culture Tools Agricultural implements	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Citrus harvesters at work	Citrus harvesters at work	Still Image	Harvesting Trees Farm workers Occupational groups Labor Farming Farm life Agriculture Cash crops Fruit Oranges Citrus fruit industry Orange industry	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Citrus worker Sonny Trask	Citrus worker Sonny Trask	Still Image	Farm workers Farmers Fieldwork Citrus fruit industry Citrus industry Workplace Oranges Orange industry Labor Workers Agriculture Food industry and trade Food preparation	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days	Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days	Still Image	Farm workers Cooks Blacksmiths Quiltmakers Festivals Folk festivals Special events Cookery (syrups) Sugarcane Tools Sugar crops Cane syrup Blacksmithing Demonstrations Soap Quilts Lye	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting	Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting	Still Image	Citrus industry Agriculture Trees Harvesting Crops Material culture Tools Students Wood carving Pedagogy Teaching of folklore Labor Citrus Agricultural implements Wood carvers Farm workers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City	Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City	Still Image	Quiltmakers Broom makers Farm workers Brooms Material culture Quilts Textile arts Quilting Needlework Demonstrations Corn Cornhusking	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
East Indian grape arbor	East Indian grape arbor	Still Image	Agriculture Farm life Crops Farms Arbors Vertical gardening Grapes Viticulture Vineyards Farm workers Migrant workers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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Avis Cason cutting sugarcane for students at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Avis Cason cutting sugarcane for students at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting

Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex

Citrus harvesters at work

Citrus harvesters at work

Citrus worker Sonny Trask

Citrus worker Sonny Trask

Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days

Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days

Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting

Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting

Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City

Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City

East Indian grape arbor

East Indian grape arbor

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Avis Cason cutting sugarcane for students at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Avis Cason cutting sugarcane for students at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting

Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex

Citrus harvesters at work

Citrus harvesters at work

Citrus worker Sonny Trask

Citrus worker Sonny Trask

Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days

Demonstrations of traditional arts at the 1991 Rural Folklife Days

Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting

Demonstrations of wood carving and citrus harvesting

Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City

Demonstrators for the Folk Arts in Schools in Lake City

East Indian grape arbor

East Indian grape arbor