| 1990 Rural Folklife Days | 1990 Rural Folklife Days | Still Image | Bee culture
Beekeeping
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Food preparation
Food habits
Sawmilling
Soap
Occupational folklore
Domestic arts
Household items
Insects
Material culture
Demonstrations
Folklife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1990 Rural Folklife Days
- Date
- 1990-11
- Description
- Three photographic proof sheets, with 99 black and white images. Index available with sheets. Sheet 1: Images 1-23: Unidentified people making lye soap Images 27-30, 31-33,35: Marie Navis making cane sugar Images 34, 36: Ruby Shaw making peanut brittle Sheet 2 Images 2-13:
- Collection
| Albert Mora making fish nets at the Florida Folk Festival | Albert Mora making fish nets at the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Fishing
Netmaking
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Folk festivals
Occupational folklore
Material culture
Textiles
Maritime folklore
Fishers
Net maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1622_04_tape11 | Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Life histories
Occupational folklore
Agricultural implements
Family farms
Farm life
Farming
Sales
Watermelons
Vegetables
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project
- Date
- 1987-11-23
- Description
- One audiocassette. Curry was a farmer since the 1940s. He discusses getting started in farming: clearing fields; developing his process, and deciding on crops. He also discusses his crops: watermelons, cucumbers, tomatoes; special needs for each; changes to the environment; main issue: water control; debt; financing; small farmers; plastic farming; and cattle raising (his other business).
- Collection
| a_s1576_11_c83-119 | Bartow Library Program: Ranching and Saddle Making | Sound | Ranchers
Saddle maker
Occupational folklore
Workshops (Adult education)
Occupational groups
Libraries
Oral education
Ranching
Cattle
Folklorists
Florida history
Public speaking
Saddles
Saddlery
Leather craft
Work songs
Working dogs
Horses Equipment and supplies
Clothing and dress
Cowboys
Leather workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Bartow Library Program: Ranching and Saddle Making
- Date
- 1983-06-20
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Presentation at the Bartow Public Library, in connection with the Pursuits and Pastimes exhibit, on Florida ranching. Folklorist Dyen began with a history of Florida cattle ranching, including fence laws, cowboy music (including songs by Bob Tinsley), stories (including recording of Bone Mizell story by Frog Smith), brands, and tools used. Cauley, a saddle maker, talks about saddles and their construction. He discusses tools and materials used, types and uses of saddles, as well as the life of a cowman, the use of dogs, and the clothing and tools used in the profession.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-027 | Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair | Sound | Festivals
Fairs
Demonstrations
Craft
Folklife
Boat drivers
Occupational folklore
African Americans
Public speaking
Polka music
Oral narratives
Polka
Performing arts
Music performance
Boat driver
Folklorists
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair
- Date
- 1981-02-13
- Description
- Seven reel to reels. Recordings of the folklife demonstration booths at the Florida State Fair. Informants at the Big Bend Folklife Area include Wakulla Springs boat drivers (Jackson/Gavin) and the Polka Sweethearts.
- Collection
| Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair | Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair | Still Image | Festivals
Fairs
Demonstrations
Craft
Folklife
Boat drivers
Occupational folklore
African Americans
Teaching of folklore
Egg decoration
Eggs
Polka
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Fishing lures
Wood carving
Music performance
Wood carvers
Musical groups
Artisans
Boat driver
Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair
- Date
- 1981-08-31
- Description
- Seventy-seven color slides. Folklife demonstration booths at the Florida State Fair. Culled from informants at the Big Bend Folklife Area, demonstrations include pysanky egg decoration, Wakulla Springs boat drivers (Jackson), wood carving (fishing lures by Woodward and Jones), and polka music by the Polka Sweethearts.
- Collection
| a_s1576_30_c93-018 | Billy Howell interview at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area | sound | Railroads Employees
Folk festivals
Florida Folk Festival
Railroads
Occupational folklore
Railway workers
Oral narratives
Interviews | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Billy Howell interview at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area
- Date
- 1993-05-30
- Description
- One audio cassette. NKwanda Jah is the interviewer. Howell gives a brief family background. He explains the turpentine business, homesteading, and other industries in North Florida. He gives some background on attending school in Port St. Joe, Fla. and working for the St. Joe Paper Company for forty-two years. He discusses his collection of railroad paraphernalia and how he acquired an interest in railway work because of his father, a news butch on the Apalachicola Northern Railroad. He explains that he never referred to railroad section workers as "gandy dancers," but instead as "section gangs." He shares his perception of race relations among railway workers, explaining that section foremen were usually white and the workers were African American. The tape cuts outs momentarily at 14:50. Howell discusses labor when he first entered the work force, including his work in the Coast Guard. He discusses his work photographing railroads.
- Collection
| Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting | Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting | Still Image | Fieldwork
Classrooms
Schools
Elementary schools
Education
Occupational training
Cuban Americans
Sugar
Sugar crops
Sugarcane
Oral education
Agricultural implements
Agriculture
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Children
Farm workers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting
- Date
- 1987-04-28
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Images of Sanchez talking one on one with students. Sanchez oversees cane burning and cutting, as well as recruiting workers for a local sugar grower. His father was rancher in Cuba, who left as political exiles in the 1960s. 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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| a_s1685_07_tape11 | Billy Sanchez interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Supervisors
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Immigration
Cuban Americans
Sugar
Sugarcane
Agricultural implements
Agriculture
Occupational folklore
Jamaican Americans
Labor unions
Employee morale
Agricultural workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Billy Sanchez interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-01-17
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. (Note on depositor agreement that interview cannot be reproduced in newspapers.) Sanchez oversees cane burning and cutting, as well as recruiting workers for a local sugar grower. His father was rancher in Cuba, who left as political exiles in the 1960s. In the interview, he discusses recruiting cane cutters in Jamaica; training workers; pay schemes; labor camps (set-up, conditions); field burning; types of workers: head pushers, ticket writers, camp supt., demonstrators; unions in Jamaica; and working conditions.
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| Blacksmith Thomas Rains talking about his craft | Blacksmith Thomas Rains talking about his craft | Still Image | African Americans
Metal craft
Blacksmithing
Oral narratives
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Material culture
Blacksmiths | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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