| Alvin Goodvine interviewed and filmed by WCTV-CBS (Tallahassee) | Alvin Goodvine interviewed and filmed by WCTV-CBS (Tallahassee) | Still Image | Turpentiners
Whip maker
Fieldwork
African Americans
Porches
Elderly, the
Interviewing
Older men
Whip making
Whip braiding
Leather craft
Leather goods
Whips
Television cameras
Recording equipment
Video recording
Television equipment and supplies
Houses
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Alvin Goodvine interviewed and filmed by WCTV-CBS (Tallahassee)
- Date
- 1979-01-26
- Description
- One proof sheet with 20 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of a three-person television crew from WCTV-TV (CBS affiliate in Tallahassee) who filmed an interview with Goodvine, at his Lake City home: 1334 Texas Street. Goodvine was a former turpentine workers, and worked with mules all his life. He learned to make whips in 1914 from his cousin. He sold them from $15 to $30. The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
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| Filming netmaker Billy Burbank | Filming netmaker Billy Burbank | Still Image | Net maker
Fieldwork
Documentary videos
Fishing nets
Netmaking
Net makers
Workplace
Seafood industry
Occupational groups
Video recording
Interviewing
Research methods
Television cameras
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Filming netmaker Billy Burbank
- Date
- 1986-08-08
- Description
- Four black and white prints. State folklorist Bulger and WUFT-TV cameramen Saperstein and Williams film Billy Burbank and family making fishing nets. Footage was sued for the shrimping folklife documentary, Fishing All My Days.
- Collection
| Filming the Lucreaty Clark video | Filming the Lucreaty Clark video | Still Image | Documentary videos
Video recording
Television cameras
African Americans
Folklorists
Basket making
Interviewing
Sound recording
Fieldwork
Photography
Folklife
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Filming the Lucreaty Clark video
- Date
- 1981-03-04
- Description
- Twenty-one color slides. Images of the filming of the Lucreaty Clark video. Includes images of Clark being filmed and interviewed, folklorists Bulger and Dyen at work, and the film crew videotaping. Records of the project can be found in S 1627, box 2. The finished video can be found in S 1615.
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| Fisher Allen R. Symonette | Fisher Allen R. Symonette | Still Image | Carpenters
Fieldwork
Occupational groups
Interviewing
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Fisher Allen R. Symonette
- Date
- 1987-10
- Description
- Two color slides. Symmonette, the son of pioneer Palm Beach fisher Winifred Symmonette, was born in Rivera Beach, and fished until 1966. 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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| Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property | Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property | Still Image | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Porches
Swings
Mobile homes
Gates
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Fisher Donald Vickers being interviewed on his property
- Date
- 1992-03
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Vickers was a long-time catfisher, who also gigged frogs to help earn more money for his family. Two images of a gate on his property with a Keep Closed sign. In the same box, folder 10, there is a transcript of the interview, but there is no tape. In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
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| Folklorist David Taylor interviewing shrimper Charles Herrin | Folklorist David Taylor interviewing shrimper Charles Herrin | Still Image | Fieldwork
Oral communication
Interviewing
Sound recording
Research methods
Audiotape recordings
Recording equipment
Boatbuilders
Folklorists
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Folklorist David Taylor interviewing shrimper Charles Herrin
- Date
- 1986-04-05
- Description
- Three contact sheets with 77 photographic black and white images; plus logs and negatives. Copy of the interview can be found in S 1592, box 7, tapes 12-14. 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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| Folklorist Doris Dyen interviewing Betty Mae Jumper | Folklorist Doris Dyen interviewing Betty Mae Jumper | Still Image | Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Indian reservations
Audiotape recordings
Sound recording
Interviewing
Fieldwork
Oral communication
Research methods
Needleworkers
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folklorist Doris Dyen interviewing Betty Mae Jumper
- Date
- 1982
- Description
- Two 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 on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can 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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| Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Still Image | Fieldwork
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Interviewing
Jewish Americans
Artists
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| Folklorist Ormond Loomis interviewing Paul Bower | Folklorist Ormond Loomis interviewing Paul Bower | Still Image | Interviewing
Research methods
Fieldwork
Chickee
Seminole Indians
Indian reservations
Native Americans
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folklorist Ormond Loomis interviewing Paul Bower
- Date
- 1984-05-26
- Description
- One proof sheet with ten images (plus negatives). Loomis interviews Bower inside a chickee--a traditional Seminole home/dwelling. For an interview with Bower, see S 1576, box 21, reel T81-118/119, from 1981. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.
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| a_s1576_67_c97-070 | Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 10) | Sound | Artisans
Artists
Musicians
Guitarist
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Jewish art and symbolism
Ketubah
Calligraphy
Marriage contracts
Decorative arts
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Paper art
African Americans
Steel guitars
Musical tradition, sacred
Gospel (Black)
Gospel musicians
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Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)
- Date
- 1997-05-23
- Description
- One audio cassette recordings. Side A: Catalina Delgado, a trunk and Mexican paper artist and Eileen Brautman, a Jewish paper artist are interviewed by Laurie Sommers. Delgado discusses paper-cutting techniques and how designs are made. Brautman explains traditional and contemporary calligraphy and paper cutting according to the European tradition. She tells of making stories from the Bible, use of animals and other designs and the making of a Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract). Side B: Sonny Treadway (Deerfield Beach, FL), sacred steel guitarist is interviewed by Laurie Sommers. He discusses sacred steel guitar and gospel music as well as his musical influences such as his father, other family members and church musicians. He plays by ear and has written several original songs.
- Collection
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