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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Subject is exactly "Glass bottom boats"
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Boat driver Captain Fred Jokler giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs

Boat driver Captain Fred Jokler giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs

Date
1980
Description
One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Images of a glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs, a popular tourist attraction in Central Florida. These images document a typical river boat tour at the park. Date: Fall 1980.
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Boat driver Captain Spil giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs

Boat driver Captain Spil giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs

Date
1980
Description
One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Images of a glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs, a popular tourist attraction in Central Florida. These images document a typical river boat tour at the park. Date: Fall 1980.
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Boat driver David Faison giving a jungle cruise tour at Silver Springs

Boat driver David Faison giving a jungle cruise tour at Silver Springs

Date
Description
One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Images of a glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs, a popular tourist attraction in Central Florida. These images document a typical river boat tour at the park. Date: Fall 1980.
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Boat tours at Wakulla Springs

Boat tours at Wakulla Springs

Date
1980-10
Description
Seventy-seven color slides. Images of boat tours at Wakulla Springs, a tourist attraction dating back to the 1930s. Many of the tours and features (such as the pole vaulting fish, a bass fish which rubs its gills on a wooden pole in the spring) date back to the 1800s. Images include the river, fauna and flora, the springs, the boat drivers and their boats, and the attraction's 1938 lodge. (Today the area is a state park.) Most of these images are duplicated in S 1577, v. 7, S81-741 - S81-820.
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Glass bottom boat drivers Willie Marsh and William Crowel

Glass bottom boat drivers Willie Marsh and William Crowel

Date
1984-03-09
Description
Two audio cassettes. Images of two former Silver Springs boat drivers being interviewed by folklorist Nancy Nusz at the Marion County Public Library. Both in their 80s at the time, Marsh and Crowel had driven glass bottom boats at the theme park since its opening in the 1920s. Sound recordings of the interviews can be found in S 1576, box 12, C84-8 and C84-9.
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Glass bottom boat tour by George Bower at Wakulla Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Glass bottom boat tour by George Bower at Wakulla Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Date
1980-11-09
Description
One reel to reel. Features a glass-bottom boat tour spiel conducted by Bower. He discusses various animals, birds, and trees on the tour, history of the attraction, legends of the springs, Henry the pole vaulting fish, and other natural features. Boat tours have been given at the springs on since the late 1800s. Many of the 1980s drivers were descendents of those early drivers, and provide some of the same folk tales. One tale/feature was Henry the Pole Vaulting Fish, a bass fish that jumped over a pole (actually scratching its gills). The springs was developed as a tourist attraction in the 1930s (and became a Florida state park in 1987.) Images of some of the drivers can be found in S 1577, v. 7.
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Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs

Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs

Date
1980
Description
Black and white 9.5 x 14 inch mounted photographic print. Images of Wakulla Springs, a popular tourist 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. Hawk Jackson died in 2001.
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Interview with Wakulla Springs glass-bottom boat driver Luke Smith

Interview with Wakulla Springs glass-bottom boat driver Luke Smith

Date
1981
Description
Two reel to reels. Interview begins on T83-142. Luke Smith drove boats at Wakulla Springs (a tourist attraction located near Tallahassee) from the 1920s through the early 1980s. In the interview, he discusses creating boat tours, his family history, how he learned the tours and taught others, the history of the attraction, and Rainbow Springs boat driver Skipper Lockett.
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Rainbow boat captain Manning (Skipper) Lockett performing his boat tour at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival

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.
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Recordings of Rainbow Springs glass-bottom boat tours

Recordings of Rainbow Springs glass-bottom boat tours

Date
1950
Description
One reel-to-reel. Recordings of glass-bottom boat drivers compiled from previous field recordings.
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Boat driver Captain Fred Jokler giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver SpringsBoat driver Captain Fred Jokler giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver SpringsStill ImageBoats
Springs
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tourists
Rivers
Flora
Workers
Workplace
Labor
Storytellers
Wildlife watching industry
Occupational groups
Oral performance
Oral communication
Glass bottom boats
Boat driver
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Boat driver Captain Spil giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver SpringsBoat driver Captain Spil giving a glass bottom boat tour at Silver SpringsStill ImageBoats
Springs
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tourists
Rivers
Flora
Workers
Workplace
Labor
Storytellers
Wildlife watching industry
Occupational groups
Oral performance
Oral communication
Glass bottom boats
Boat driver
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Boat driver David Faison giving a jungle cruise tour at Silver SpringsBoat driver David Faison giving a jungle cruise tour at Silver SpringsStill ImageBoats
Springs
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tourists
Rivers
Flora
Workers
Workplace
Labor
Storytellers
Wildlife watching industry
Occupational groups
Oral performance
Oral communication
African Americans
Glass bottom boats
Boat driver
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Boat tours at Wakulla SpringsBoat tours at Wakulla SpringsStill ImageFieldwork
Boats
Boats and boating
Boat drivers
Boat driving
Glass bottom boats
Fishes
Rivers
Springs
Transportation
Docks
Waterways
Tour guides (Persons)
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tourists
Hotels
Alligators
Boat driver
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Glass bottom boat drivers Willie Marsh and William CrowelGlass bottom boat drivers Willie Marsh and William CrowelStill ImageOccupational folklore
Occupational groups
Libraries
African Americans
Oral communication
Oral narratives
Oral histories
Life histories
Boat drivers
Nature
Springs
Boats and boating
Glass bottom boats
Boat driver
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a_s1576_t81-010Glass bottom boat tour by George Bower at Wakulla Springs for the Big Bend Folklife SurveySoundBoat driver
Orators
Field recordings
Boats and boating
Oral performance
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tours
Boat drivers
Springs
Attractions
Interviews
Waterways
Occupational folklore
Glass bottom boats
Tour guides (Persons)
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Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla SpringsHawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla SpringsStill ImageAfrican Americans
Boats and boating
Narratives
Tall tales
Storytelling
Storytellers
Oral performance
Oral communication
Rivers
Springs
Tourism
Workplace
Workers
Labor
Glass bottom boats
Ecotourism
Wildlife watching industry
Boat driver
Tour guides (Persons)
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a_s1576_t83-141Interview with Wakulla Springs glass-bottom boat driver Luke SmithSoundFieldwork
Glass bottom boats
Oral performance
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tours
Boat drivers
Boats and boating
Springs
Attractions
Interviews
African Americans
Oral histories
Life histories
Occupational folklore
Occupational training
Poetic language
Family history
Local history
Boat driver
Orators
Tour guides (Persons)
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a_s1576_04_c81-010Rainbow boat captain Manning (Skipper) Lockett performing his boat tour at the 1959 Florida Folk FestivalSoundBoat 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)
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a_s1576_t83-140Recordings of Rainbow Springs glass-bottom boat toursSoundBoat driver
Orators
Field recordings
Glass bottom boats
Oral performance
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tours
Boat drivers
Boats and boating
Springs
Attractions
Tour guides (Persons)
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