Down a Lonesome Road: A History of Cortez, Florida | Down a Lonesome Road: A History of Cortez, Florida | Moving Image | Television Interviewing on television Interviews Documentary videos Florida history Local history Seafood industry Seafood gathering Fisheries processing Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fish house worker Christo Poloponis cleaning fish | Fish house worker Christo Poloponis cleaning fish | Still Image | Fieldwork Fishes Knives Food preparation Occupational groups Labor Workplace Seafood Fishery processing plants Fisheries processing Seafood industry Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Fish house worker Christo Poloponis cleaning fish
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- 1986-11-07
- Description
- Thirty one color slides. Cleaning fish at Toranto's Fish House. 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. 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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Fish house worker Clay Vioria cleaning fish | Fish house worker Clay Vioria cleaning fish | Still Image | Fieldwork Fishes Knives Food preparation Occupational groups Labor Workplace Seafood Seafood industry Fisheries processing Fishery processing plants Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Fish house worker Clay Vioria cleaning fish
- Date
- 1986-06-07
- Description
- Nineteen color slides. Cleaning fish at Toranto's Fish House. 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. 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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Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition | Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition | Moving Image | Fishers Net maker Documentary videos Occupational folklore Occupational groups Fisheries Fishing Equipment and supplies Fisheries processing Fishing nets Netmaking Net makers Seafood gathering Seafood industry Boatbuilding Boatbuilders Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Tradition
- Date
- 1986-03
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 29 minutes. Documentary on Fernandina's shrimping industry, produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WUFT-TV 5 of Gainesville (the local PBS station, affiliated with the University of Florida.) The video can be viewed online through the Folkstreams web page at http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=137
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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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Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company | Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company | Still Image | Fieldwork Oyster shucking Blue collar workers Community enterprise Maritime life Oysters Work Workplace Food preparation Seafood Labor Occupational groups Seafood industry Fisheries processing Fishery processing plants Employees Shuckers Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company
- Date
- 1986-11-13
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. To shuck an oyster means to remove the meat of the oyster from its shell. This was often done before the product was shipped to seafood dealers and restaurants. 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. 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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Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company | Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company | Still Image | Fieldwork Oyster shucking Blue collar workers Community enterprise Maritime life Oysters Work Workplace Food preparation Seafood Labor Occupational groups Folklorists Photography Research methods Fishery processing plants Fisheries processing Employees Shuckers Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company
- Date
- 1986-11-13
- Description
- Four contact sheets with 139 black and white images; plus negatives and logs. To shuck an oyster means to remove the meat of the oyster from its shell. This was often done before the product was shipped to seafood dealers and restaurants. Sheets in envelope 31 feature images of folklorists Hepburn, Taylor, and Loomis talking with and taking slides of fish house workers. Collector Hepburn was from Dept. of Community Affairs, and joined the project after it began. 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. 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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Oyster shuckers at Leavin's Seafood | Oyster shuckers at Leavin's Seafood | Still Image | Fieldwork Skiffs Boats Boatbuilders Boatbuilding Material culture Wood craft Woodwork Carpentry Netmaking Fishing nets Fishery processing plants Fisheries processing Seafood industry Shuckers Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Oyster shuckers at Leavin's Seafood
- Date
- 1986-10-10
- Description
- Thirty seven color slides. Images of oyster shuckers at Leavin's Seafood. Shucking is the removal of shells from oysters before they are sold to food suppliers and restaurants. 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. 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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Shrimping in Fernandina | Shrimping in Fernandina | Still Image | Fishers Fieldwork Boats and boating Transportation Seafood gathering Seafood industry Occupational groups Fisheries Fishes Workers Workplace Employees African Americans Fishing Equipment and supplies Trawlers (Vessels) Trawls and trawling Waterways Fishing nets Shrimps Fauna Animals Docks Fisheries processing Architecture Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Shrimping in Fernandina
- Date
- 1980-08-06
- Description
- 203 color slides. Images of shrimper David Cook and crew during a typical work day trawling for shrimp, from leaving the dock to processing the catch.
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Sorting and de-heading shrimp at Roland's Seafood | Sorting and de-heading shrimp at Roland's Seafood | Still Image | Fieldwork Food preparation Seafood gathering Labor Occupational groups Shrimps Workplace Saltwater fishing Seafood industry Fisheries processing Fishery processing plants Fishers Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sorting and de-heading shrimp at Roland's Seafood
- Date
- 1986-08-05
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. Workers sorting and de-heading shrimp at a fish house in Mayport. Includes slides of owner Mat Roland. 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. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project may be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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