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Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence

Date: 1981-09-21
Description: Twenty-five color slides. Images of euqipment for sugar cane processign and turpentine extraction: fencing, wagon, cane grining mill; hand-made metal plow blade; kettle for boiling cane; farm out buildings, and a pine cat-faced for turpentining. Location of Hunter's property is unidentifed. 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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Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence

Sugar mill at Osceola Farms

Date: 1986-11-08
Description: Forty-seven color slides. Images of a sugar mill run by Osceola Farms, including the mill workers, the machinery, harvesting of sugarcane, the warehouse, and the final product: crystallized sugar. In 1960 Cuban immigrants Pepe and Alfy Fanjul moved their sugar manufacturing operation to Florida, and 4000 acre Osceola Farms, But the mid-1980s, it was earning 240 million a year with tens of thousands of acres. By the 1990s, the company became Florida Crystals, and was the state's largest sugar company, one of the companies often nicknamed as Big Sugar. 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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Sugar mill at Osceola Farms

S.M. Blackmon grinding corn

Date: 1983-06-23
Description: Twenty-six color slides. Field reserach for the 1983 Folk Arts in the Schools program. Images of Blackmon grinding corn into meal.
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S.M. Blackmon grinding corn

John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Date: 1990-11-12
Description: Eleven color slides. This festival was held each year at the Stephen Foster Center by the Florida Folklife Program.
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John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon

Date: 1983-06-29
Description: One audio cassette. Mr. Blackman discusses learning how to run grist mill; background of his property; discusses how the mill works; differences between old process and new (grist mill is running in background during interview).
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Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon

Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida

Date: 1983-03-28
Description: One color slides.
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Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: One proof sheet with twenty-seven black and white images, plus negatives. 1-3: Mill workers Barbara Dye, Nancy Pywell, Patricia Savin; 4-12: Unidentified fiddlers; 13: Forestry saw operator; 14-17: Gospel Grass, religious bluegrass musical group; 18: Patricia and unidentified participants; 19-22: Unidentified participants; 23-25: Simmons Family Band, bluegrass muscial group; 26-28: Unidentified.
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Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Dilmore Family Grist Mill

Date: 1980
Description: Eleven color slides. Images of a grist mill, its inner workings, and the adjacent mill ponds.
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Dilmore Family Grist Mill

Dilmore family grist mill

Date: 1982-10
Description: One black and white print.
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Dilmore family grist mill

Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida

Date: 1989-01-05
Description: One photographic print with 37 black and white images (located in enevelope 3). Includes negatives and an index. Images of Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching operations. Supervisor Barbara Dye is pictured in images 30-31.
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Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida

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Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence	Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence	Still Image	Farmers Turpentiners Fieldwork Material culture Farm buildings Farming Farms Turpentining Tools Fences Buildings Architecture Structures Wagons Plows Metal craft Mills Sugarcane grinding Pine Trees	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Sugar mill at Osceola Farms	Sugar mill at Osceola Farms	Still Image	Fieldwork Workers Agriculture Farming Sugar Sugar crops Sugarcane Cash crops Plants Flora Milling Mills Sugar factories Sugar Manufacture and refining	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
S.M. Blackmon grinding corn	S.M. Blackmon grinding corn	Still Image	Millers Material culture Food preparation Agriculture Mills Machinery Milling Corn Farm life Farm workers Fieldwork Research methods Gristmills Farmers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days	John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days	Still Image	Sawmill workers Festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Mills Sawmilling Sawmills Demonstrations Timber Wood Saws Machinery	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_13_c84-059	Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon	Sound	Millers Fieldwork Interviews Gristmills Milling Occupational groups Occupational training Mills	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida	Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida	Still Image	Architecture Buildings Gristmills Mills	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival	Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival	Still Image	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Folklife Demonstrations Stringband music Mills Workers Oral narratives String instruments Fiddles Occupational groups Occupational folklore Fiddlers Musical groups Performers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Dilmore Family Grist Mill	Dilmore Family Grist Mill	Still Image	Fieldwork Architecture Buildings Structures Mills Milling Community enterprise Gristmills Millstones Ponds	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Dilmore family grist mill	Dilmore family grist mill	Still Image	Mills Structures Material culture Millers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida	Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida	Still Image	Loggers Cypress Trees Mulching Machinery Mills Milling Material culture Work Wood	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence

Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence

Sugar mill at Osceola Farms

Sugar mill at Osceola Farms

S.M. Blackmon grinding corn

S.M. Blackmon grinding corn

John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon

Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon

Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida

Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Dilmore Family Grist Mill

Dilmore Family Grist Mill

Dilmore family grist mill

Dilmore family grist mill

Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida

Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida

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Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence

Turpentine and agricultural material culture at Oliver Hunter's residence

Sugar mill at Osceola Farms

Sugar mill at Osceola Farms

S.M. Blackmon grinding corn

S.M. Blackmon grinding corn

John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

John Paquin operating his portable sawmill at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days

Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon

Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon

Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida

Grist mill in Pinetta, Florida

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Dilmore Family Grist Mill

Dilmore Family Grist Mill

Dilmore family grist mill

Dilmore family grist mill

Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida

Corbitt Cypress Company's mulching mill in Jasper, Florida