| a_s2043_00060 | 9th Anniversary celebration of the Stephen Foster Museum | Sound | Anniversaries
Museums
Performing arts
Music performance
Concerts
Singing
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
9th Anniversary celebration of the Stephen Foster Museum
- Date
- 1959-10-04
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. In 1935, the Florida Legislature designated "Old Folks at Home" (often referred to as "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River") as Florida's state song. Over the next two decades, several Floridians began to push for a memorial to the song's composer, Stephen Collins Foster, considered by many to be the nation's first commercial songwriter. Finally, after the efforts of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs, the state opened the Stephen Foster Memorial, a 250-acre state-owned park, in White Springs, Florida in 1950, and would eventually comprise a bell tower, a Stephen Foster Museum, landscaped park grounds, and an annual Florida Folk Festival, along with other public programs. That same year, the state created the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission to administer the development and maintenance of the park.
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| Alejandrina Ayme weaving at the Florida Museum of Natural History | Alejandrina Ayme weaving at the Florida Museum of Natural History | Still Image | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Latinos
Peruvian Americans
Material culture
Museums
Exhibits
Textile arts
Looms
Weaving
Weavers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Baskets at the Native American Heritage Festival | Baskets at the Native American Heritage Festival | Still Image | Basket maker
Festivals
Special events
Museums
Basket making
Basket work
Basketry
Baskets
Containers
Sewing
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Baskets at the Native American Heritage Festival
- Date
- 1987-09
- Description
- Nine color slides. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Fragos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art project between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
- Collection
| Bluegrass performance at the Jacksonville Art Museum | Bluegrass performance at the Jacksonville Art Museum | Still Image | Fieldwork
Music performance
Museums
String bands
Performances
Performing arts
Musicians
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Bluegrass musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bluegrass performance at the Jacksonville Art Museum
- Date
- 1986-04
- Description
- Twenty-four color slides. Unidentified bluegrass bands playing outdoors at the Jacksonville Art Museum. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curricula. 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. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
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| a_s1712_01_tape02b | Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar | Sound | Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Folklore
Folklife
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Storytelling
Tales
Employee employee relations
Lecturers
Teaching of folklore
Workshops (Adult education)
Museums
Employee employer relations
Folklorists
Oral communication
Labor
Workplace | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar
- Date
- 1989-07-23
- Description
- Three audio cassettes. This recording has a restriction set by Collins: no reporductions, quotations, or distributioon can be performed with her voice and information. Florida folklorist Collins discusses the occupational folklife and culture, including factories, textile mills, employee-boss relations, Xerox lore, weather and the work environment, and occupational language.
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| Circus wagons | Circus wagons | Still Image | Wood carvers
Fieldwork
Circus
Circus wagons
Material culture
Wagons
Exhibits
Woodwork
Museum collection
Decorative arts
Museums | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Circus wagons
- Date
- 1986-12-15
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Images of circus wagons located in the Circus gallery at the Ringling Museum. 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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| Cypress Knee Museum | Cypress Knee Museum | Still Image | Woodworkers
Fieldwork
Museum collection
Museums
Cypress
Woodwork
Trees
Decorative arts
Exhibits
Material culture
Tourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cypress Knee Museum
- Date
- 1987-01-15
- Description
- Sixteen proof sheets, with 538 black and white images (plus negatives). 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.
- Collection
| Cypress Knee Museum | Cypress Knee Museum | Still Image | Woodworkers
Fieldwork
Museum collection
Museums
Cypress
Woodwork
Trees
Decorative arts
Exhibits
Material culture
Tourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cypress Knee Museum
- Date
- 1987-01-15
- Description
- 189 color slides. Images are dark and difficult to see. 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.
- Collection
| Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song (Video 7) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song (Video 7) | Moving Image | Fishers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Greek Americans
Churches
Sponges
Church architecture
Docks
Stores, retail
Museum collection
Museums
Boats and boating
Sponge divers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song (Video 7)
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- One video cassette. 20 minutes. (Copy can be found on FV-4, S 1615). St. Nicholas church interior continued from V-89-19, George Billiris working on sponge boat, John M. Cocoris memorial at sponge docks, local tourist museum, sponges in Billiris' shop. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
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| Fletcher and Peggy Hodges | Fletcher and Peggy Hodges | Still Image | Curators
Folklorists
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Museums
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Fletcher and Peggy Hodges
- Date
- 1970
- Description
- Six black and white print, and one negative. Images of Fletcher and Peggy Hodges, curators at the Stephen Foster Museum in Pittsburg, at the Florida Folk Festival. Fletcher began collecting Foster memorabilia in 1931, with Josiah Kirby Lilly. In 1937, he donated those materials to the University of Pennsylvania, and Hodges became the collection's curator. He also assisted in the creation of the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs. He retired in 1982. His wife Peggy was also a children's author and teller of folktales.
- Collection
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