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Interview with blacksmith Jim Tucker

Date: 1986-12-12
Description: One audio cassette. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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Interview with blacksmith Jim Tucker

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Date: 1978-04-17
Description: One audio cassette. Side 1, C78-48: Rains, born December 24, 1894, discusses wrought ironwork. He learned the trade from his father, a former slave from Americus, Georgia. Rains began the practice himself in 1912. He discusses his work on wagons, wheels, and tools and talks of how he does restoration work for historical societies. Side 2, C78-48: Rains discusses his philosophy on life, making decorative hinges and tie backs; making unusual items; making white oak baskets; work on the farm, etc. Side 1, C78-49: Discusses his family, his blacksmith shop and equipment, his church, his membership in the Farmers' Union, Elizabethan Missionary Baptist Church, exhibiting for fairs and events, shoeing horses, etc.
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Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Date: 1977
Description: One audio cassette. Side 1: Rains describes how he started working as a blacksmith in 1912; talks about the projects he works on; talks about how he was born in and raised in the same home he still lives in; describes how his father was also a blacksmith and his brother taught him much of the trade; talks about how he gets business for his shop. On Side 2, he discusses shoeing horses; sharpening; tractors; using hickory to make ax handles.
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Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain

Date: 1986-10-14
Description: One audio cassette. Interview with Cain, who made oyster shucking knives. He was born on 15 October, 1909 in Lynn Haven, Florida. Shucking is the removal of oysters from their shell. For images of Cain, see S 1577, v. 46; and S 1592, box 4, folder 1. 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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Interview with oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain

Interview with oyster tong maker Corky Richards

Date: 1986-11-07
Description: One audio cassette. Interview with Corky Richards on making oyster tongs. He discusses carpentry; work as a cabinet maker; making tongs; local oystermen; and use of the tongs. For images of Richards, see S 1577, v. 45. 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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Interview with oyster tong maker Corky Richards

Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page

Date: 1989-06-23
Description: One audio cassete. Page discusses blacksmith.
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Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page

Interview with Greek dive helmet maker Antonio Lerios

Date: 1986-02-12
Description: One audio casette. 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 through 2003.
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Interview with Greek dive helmet maker Antonio Lerios

Interview with Greek diving helmet maker Antonio Lerios and Nick Toth

Date: 1985-07-24
Description: One audio cassette. Interview with Antonios Lerios and his grandson Nicholas Toth on the family business of making diving helmets. They discuss Lerios's background and innovations he made in the diving helmets. For a transcript of the interview, see S 1579, box 1.
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Interview with Greek diving helmet maker Antonio Lerios and Nick Toth

Interview with sponge diving helmet maker Anthony Lerios

Date: 1989-06-25
Description: Three audio cassettes. Born 3 December 1902, Lerios was a Greek immigrant who made sponge diving helmets. He arrived in Tarpons Springs in 1913 to work in a machine shop. He soon owned his own, and made helmets. Also made and fixed engines and pumps. He also discussing making helmets, changes in the sponge industry, his health, training his grandson Nick Toth as an apprentice in helmet making, and local Greek culture. Nick Toth helped his grandfather throughout the interview. Continued on C89-24 and C89-35. Recorded at the Sponge Industry Folk Arts festival, festival sounds can be heard throughout. The festival was held June 24-25, 1989 to celebrate Tarpon Springs heritage of sponge diving, a practice that dated back to the 1890s. By 1905, when 500 Greek immigrants answered an ad to be sponge divers, the town acquired a distinctive Greek flavor, as the Greek Americans thrived in the sponge industry. At one point, Florida provided 95% of the nation's sponges. Although today over fishing and synthetic materials have undercut the sponge diving industry, the tradition lives on in Greek families, and through tourism.
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Interview with sponge diving helmet maker Anthony Lerios

Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets

Date: 1986-02-24
Description: Thirty-four color slides. Lerios began making diving helmets for sponge divers in 1913 in Tarpon Springs. When he was in his 80s, he decided to retire. In the meantime, Toth, fresh with a degree from University of Florida, decided to learn the trade, and he worked as an apprentice for Lerios. By 1992 when Lerios died, Toth had assumed control of the business. Diving helmets date back to the early 1900s. Once Greek divers began diving for sponges in Tarpon Springs in 1905, the diving helmet industry in Florida began. The helmets allow divers to walk into deep water to gather sponges. For more history of Lerios and Toth diving helmets, see: http://www.divinghelmets.com/pages/history.html 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 through 2003.
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Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets

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a_s1576_02_c78-048	Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains	Sound	Interviews Metalwork Occupational groups Occupational training Blacksmithing Metal craft Family history Life histories Metal products Slavery African Americans Labor Labor unions Fieldwork Blacksmiths	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-032	Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains	Sound	Blacksmiths Interviews Oral histories Life histories Oral narratives African Americans Blacksmithing Metal craft Metalwork Occupational groups Horseshoers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1592_06_tape12	Interview with oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain	Sound	Fieldwork Knives Occupational groups Metal craft Knife grinding Tools Oyster industries Workshops Fishing Equipment and supplies Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Artisans Knifesmiths	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1592_06_tape13	Interview with oyster tong maker Corky Richards	Sound	Fieldwork Oyster tongs Fishing Equipment and supplies Metal craft Material culture Sound recordings Oral histories Interviewing Interviews Occupational groups Life histories Artisans Welders (Persons)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1680_02_tape02	Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page	Sound	Blacksmiths Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Life histories Sound recordings Blacksmithing Metal craft	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1640_20_tape12	Interview with Greek dive helmet maker Antonio Lerios	Sound	Diving helmet maker Apprentices Greek Americans Helmets Interviews Diving Diving Equipment and supplies Sponge fisheries Sponge divers Life histories Copper Metal craft	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_23_c87-009	Interview with Greek diving helmet maker Antonio Lerios and Nick Toth	Sound	Diving helmet maker Metal-workers Fieldwork Interviews Greek Americans Helmets Diving Equipment and supplies Fishing Equipment and supplies Metal craft Occupational groups	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_25_c89-023	Interview with sponge diving helmet maker Anthony Lerios	Sound	Diving helmet maker Arts, Greek Greek Americans Interviews Sponge divers Sponges Life histories Oral histories Emigration and immigration Helmets Oral narratives Sound recordings Metal craft Occupational groups Apprentices	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets	Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets	Still Image	Apprentices Diving Equipment and supplies Greek Americans Helmets Metal craft Sponge fisheries Workplace Workshops Teaching of folklore Copper Metal products Artisans	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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Interview with Greek dive helmet maker Antonio Lerios

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Interview with Greek diving helmet maker Antonio Lerios and Nick Toth

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Interview with blacksmith Jim Tucker

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Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain

Interview with oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain

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Interview with blacksmith Buddy Page

Interview with Greek dive helmet maker Antonio Lerios

Interview with Greek dive helmet maker Antonio Lerios

Interview with Greek diving helmet maker Antonio Lerios and Nick Toth

Interview with Greek diving helmet maker Antonio Lerios and Nick Toth

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Interview with sponge diving helmet maker Anthony Lerios

Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets

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