| Workers at Lewis and Sons Fish Market | Workers at Lewis and Sons Fish Market | Still Image | Fieldwork
Workers
Blue collar workers
Fisheries processing
Fishery processing plants
Fishes
Food preparation
Workplace
Labor
Seafood
Seafood industry
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Workers at Lewis and Sons Fish Market
- Date
- 1988-06
- Description
- Twenty-two color slides. Workers at a fish market in New Berlin, a subsection in North Jacksonville. Includes an interview with one of the workers/fishers, William Christopher, in S 1618, box 4, tape 24. 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.
- Collection
| Wakulla Springs tourist attraction | Wakulla Springs tourist attraction | Still Image | Tourism
Boats
Springs
Transportation
Waterways
Tourists
Buildings
Architecture
Park lodging facilities
Hotels
Fishes
African Americans
Oral performance
Ecotourism
Glass bottom boats
Wildlife watching industry
Storytellers
Storytelling
Boat driver | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wakulla Springs tourist attraction
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Images of Wakulla Springs, a popular tourist attraction located just south of Tallahassee that offered boat tours and lodging. One of the features on the tours was Henry the Fish, a bass fish that would appear to jump over a pole when called. In 1986, the site became a state park. Hawk Jackson died in 2001. 1-11: Boat driver Hawk Jackson giving a glass boat tour; 12-15: Wakulla Springs Lodge; 16-23: Young boat driver (unidentified); 24-31: Henry the Pole-Vaulting Fish 32-36: Seminole corn baskets. Date: Fall 1980.
- Collection
| a_s1622_04_tape06 | Totch Brown interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project | Sound | Fishers
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Family history
Local history
Crabbing
Crabs
Crab traps
Fish traps
Seafood
Fish markets
Fishing equipment
Fishes
Mullet (fishes)
Food preparation
Drug smuggling | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Totch Brown interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project
- Date
- 1987-11-18
- Description
- Two audiocassettes. Brown, a lifelong resident and retired stone crabber, wrote a book of his life in 1993 called Totch: A Life in the Everglades. He discusses trapping, selling, storing, cleaning, and cooking stone crabs, including when, where, and how to catch; making the wooden traps; financing his ventures; and other crabbers in the area. He also discusses fishing industry; cooking mullet; drug smuggling in the Everglades (marijuana); use of baits; family history; and local history.
- Collection
| Suwannee River | Suwannee River | Moving Image | Singers
Musicians
Documentary videos
Video recording
Florida history
Folklore and history
Rivers
Local history
Environment
Folk festivals
Occupational folklore
Springs
Wetlands
Flora
Fauna
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
Phosphate mines and mining
Steamboats
Performing arts
Autoharp music
Singing
Alligators
Birds
Snakes
Fishes
Historical reenactments | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Suwannee River
- Date
- 1989
- Description
- One video recording (VHS; 40 minutes) Created by the Northeast Florida Institute for Science, Mathematics and Computers of University of North Florida, and the Florida Community College of Jacksonville, the documentary traces the natural and cultural history of the Suwannee River from its source in the Okeefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico. Funded through a grant by the Florida Dept. of Education, topics include the relationship between the river, local springs, and the aquifer, as well as human activities along its banks including the Florida Folk Festival, the Battle of Olustee, Stephen Foster, and phosphate mining. Includes footage of Fitchen, Makley, and Slavin performing at the Florida Folk Festival. Also includes much discussion of the natural features and wildlife of the river. It was narrated by Bill Massie, with music by Landon Walker. The video was produced, directed, and co-written by Dr. Ray Bowman.
- Collection
| Smoking mullet at the First Methodist Church | Smoking mullet at the First Methodist Church | Still Image | Cooks
Fieldwork
Cookery (Mullet)
Fish smoking
Fishes
Cooking and dining
Cookery (Meat)
Curing (food)
Food preparation
Cookery (Seafood) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Smoking mullet at the First Methodist Church
- Date
- 1982-10-21
- Description
- 166 color slides. Images of smoking mullet. This was done by impaling mullet fish fillets on metal hooks set up around a large wood fire for several hours.
- Collection
| Smoking mullet at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival | Smoking mullet at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Food habits
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Cooking and dining
Food
Food preparation
Fishes
Cookery (Mullet)
Curing (food)
Fish smoking
Seafood
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| 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.
- Collection
| Shrimping Documentary - Shrimping with Rudy and Junius Backman | Shrimping Documentary - Shrimping with Rudy and Junius Backman | Moving Image | Fishers
Documentary videos
Folklorists
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Shrimps
Fishing
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Boats and boating
Fishes
Workplace
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Shrimping Documentary - Shrimping with Rudy and Junius Backman
- Date
- 1985
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) Various shots and aspects of a shrimping trip with Rudy and Junius Backman - views of the sea, the boat, and the catch. Raw footage for the documentary, Fishing All My Days, 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.)
- Collection
| a_s1576_04_c81-010 | Rainbow boat captain Manning (Skipper) Lockett performing his boat tour at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival | Sound | Boat driver
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Orators
Speech play
African Americans
Oral poetry
Poetic language
Boat drivers
Glass bottom boats
Springs
Oral performance
Performing arts
Tours
Fishes
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Rainbow boat captain Manning (Skipper) Lockett performing his boat tour at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1959-05
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recording of Skipper Lockett performing his popular Rainbow Springs boat tour on the main stage of the Florida Folk Festival. Lockett was a long-time boat driver at the springs (today a Florida State Park), and gave his rhyming tour -- during which he explains the springs and names all of its fishes -- at several festivals in the 1950s and 1960s. The original recording from which this cassette was made is T77-83: Recording of the Saturday Morning Program at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Pinder's Fish Market | Pinder's Fish Market | Still Image | Fishers
Merchants
Fieldwork
Community enterprise
Specialty stores
Stores, retail
Occupational groups
Seafood
Selling seafood
Fishes
Lobsters
Food preparation | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Pinder's Fish Market
- Date
- 1987-09-01
- Description
- Six color slides. 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
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