a_s1576_t82-052 | Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Basket maker Needleworkers Dollmakers Fieldwork Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Basket making Interviewing Interviews Sound recordings Sweetgrass baskets Oral histories Life histories Family history Palmetto weaving Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
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- 1981-11-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. The Osceolas discuss basket making - - including when and how they learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the basketry process. The recordings 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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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 Leather workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alvin Goodvine interviewed and filmed by WCTV-CBS (Tallahassee)
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- 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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a_s1576_01_c77-011 | Bill Butler interview | Sound | Interviewing Interviews Performers Performing arts Oral narratives Life histories Jamaican Americans Parades African Americans Bands (Music) Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Bill Butler interview
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- 1977-01-25
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recorded at Butler's Key West home. Butler discusses the woman who formed the band; the instruments he plays; the kind of music the band plays; playing for funerals and parades; nicknames for people in the band; the origins of the band's name; and discusses his brother and father.
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a_s1576_21_c86-141 | Captain Jake Stone interview for Fishing All My Days | Sound | Net maker Field recordings Interviews Life histories Personal experience narratives Interviewing Fishing nets Netmaking Seafood gathering Seafood industry Selling seafood Oral history Fishing Equipment and supplies Fishing Fishers Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Captain Jake Stone interview for Fishing All My Days
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- 1984-08-10
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Audio does not start immediately. C86-143: Capt. Jake Stone discusses his early years in shrimping, 1947-1948; his first shrimp boat was the "Jim Dozier"; tells fishing story; discusses shrimping in the present day - differences; family background; shrimp boats he's run; New Smyrna, Florida as "shrimping Mecca"; modern shrimping ports; communication; "heading" shrimp stories; shrimping as a family business; superstitions among fishermen; "oil drip" story; shrimp captain, "Gator Pierce"; fisherman, Ralph Weatherly; fishing territories; electric reels; net-making; old-time net-maker, Anchor Damgard; fisherman, Johnny McDonald; tells fishing and shrimping stories throughout tape. C86-141: Captain Stone discusses various aspects of shrimping and netmaking such as the types of nets he made ("Jubilee" nets, "Joe Lucas" nets, and "Brownie" nets); innovations in his net-making; intricacies of net-making and how they work; seasonal runs of shrimp; decreasing catches of shrimp and rising prices; legends of shark feeding; younger generation's lack of interest in net making; modern shrimping vs. shrimping when Capt. Stone was younger. Interview conducted during fieldwork for video documentary on Florida shrimping called Fishing All My Days, and was made by the Florida Folklife Program, and the University of Florida (WUFT-TV). A transcript of the interview can be found in S 1579, box 1, folder: "C86-99 through C86-149."
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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 Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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.
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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 Basket maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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
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- 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 Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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 Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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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