| 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
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Alvin Goodvine interviewed and filmed by WCTV-CBS (Tallahassee)
- Date
- 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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| Folklorist Merri Belland's car during fieldwork | Folklorist Merri Belland's car during fieldwork | Still Image | Transportation
Fieldwork
Occupational groups
Recording equipment
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folklorist Merri Belland's car during fieldwork
- Date
- 1982
- Description
- One color slide. 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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| Images of the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Reunion Performance | Images of the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Reunion Performance | Still Image | Public officer
Preachers
Choruses
Concerts
African Americans
Gospel (Black)
Gospel musicians
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Public officers
Public officials
Sound recording
Recording equipment
Folklorists
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Reunion Performance
- Date
- 1983-03-19
- Description
- One proof sheet with 22 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of a reunion concert of the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association. Recordings of the concert (another one was also held on 20 March 1983) can be found on C83-132 through C83-137, and T83-213 through T83-216. Starling served as emcee. During the concert, Jacksonville council member Holzendorf gave out awards to Hawes and Dyen (images 11 through 18). In image 5, folklorists Dyen and Nusz are seen recording the concert.
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| Images from the Ida Goodson Recording Project | Images from the Ida Goodson Recording Project | Still Image | Pianists
Musicians
Recording equipment
African Americans
Sound recording
Singers
Performers
Sound studios
Entertainers
Bands (Music)
Microphone
Choirs (music)
Choruses
Musical instruments
Music rehearsals
Jazz musicians
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Images from the Ida Goodson Recording Project
- Date
- 1981-12-02
- Description
- One proof sheet with 22 black and white images (plus negatives). Various images of Ida Goodson recording for the Florida Folklife Program. Images 1-3 are of Goodson singing with the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Choir (2 December 1981); Images 4-17 are of Goodson rehearsing with her band at the Club Royal (3 December 1981); and images 18-22 are of Goodson and her band recording at Club Royal (4 December 1981). Her band included Harold Andrews (bass), James Franklin Davis (trumpet), John Boller (sax), and Clyde Andrews (drums). Landon Walker can be seen in images 16 and 17.
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| Images of the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Images of the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Net maker
Dancers
Bands (Music)
Musicians
Furniture maker
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Medicine shows
Clog dancing
Spinning wheels
Palmetto weaving
Ranchers
Whips
Workshops (Adult education)
Recording equipment
Sound recording
Puppets
Folklorists
Performers
Puppeteers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the 1983 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1983-05-28
- Description
- One proof sheet with 36 black and white images (plus negatives). Includes several images of the Minorcan Folklife Area (including palmetto weaver Solano, whip maker Triay, net maker Masters, and storyteller Griffin), as well as the Shoestring Puppeteers, the Cross Creek Cloggers, and of Florida Folklife Program staff recording the proceedings.
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| Local musicians performing early morning Mother's Day serenatas. | Local musicians performing early morning Mother's Day serenatas. | Still Image | Musicians
Fieldwork
Mexican Americans
Latinos
Serenades
Performing arts
Music performance
Serenatas
Mothers Day Songs and music
Arts, Mexican
Recording equipment
Sound recording
Bands (Music)
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Local musicians performing early morning Mother's Day serenatas.
- Date
- 1995-05-14
- Description
- Twelve color slides. Images of Los Fuerza del Norte (Tomas Granado, David Avalos, and Guadalupe Rivera) performing traditional serenatas for mothers on Mother's Day. Also visible is sound engineer Paul Butterfield, who worked with folklorist Stone to create field recordings. The Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, conjunto, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
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| National Public Radio (NPR) recording Florida folklife | National Public Radio (NPR) recording Florida folklife | Still Image | Journalists
Broom makers
Fieldwork
Interviewing
Sound recording
Microphone
Recording equipment
Documentaries Radio
Public radio
African Americans
Radio broadcasters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
National Public Radio (NPR) recording Florida folklife
- Date
- 1982-03-16
- Description
- Three black and white prints (plus negatives). Images of NPR journalists Berger and Epstein (seen with recording equipment). Berger worked for NPR for over twenty years. She had a BA from Bryn Mawr, and journalism masters for the University of Missouri. In 1999, she joined the American Jewish Committee. A former blues performer, Sadie Cooper stopped singing blues songs in the 1920s, and performed only religious songs from then on. She participated in the Folklife program by demonstrating to students how to make brooms and herbal cures. 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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| Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: volunteers recording performances | Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: volunteers recording performances | Still Image | Folk festivals
Sound recording
Audiotape recordings
Recording equipment
Volunteers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Metro-Dade Folklife Area at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival: volunteers recording performances
- Date
- 1986-05-24
- Description
- One color slide. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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| Demo recording by the Red Tam Blues Band | Demo recording by the Red Tam Blues Band | Still Image | Fieldwork
Recording equipment
Bass guitars
Drums
Keyboards (music)
Guitar
Guitarists
Drummers (Musicians)
Music performance
Blues (Music)
African Americans
Bands (Music)
Blues singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Demo recording by the Red Tam Blues Band
- Date
- 1988-08-03
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Images of the Red Tam Blues Band making a demo recording at a Jacksonville studio. The band consisted of Red Tam (aka Tony McQueen)(lead guitar, leader); Mike Gallen (keyboard); Kenny Holt (bass); and Kenny Johnson (drums). For an interview with Red Tam (McQueen), see S 1618, Box 4, tape 10. For a copy of the demo tape, see S 1618, box 4, tape 12. 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 curriculum. 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, and 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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| 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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