Images of the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Images of the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Quiltmakers Cooks Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Cooking and dining Retail trade Selling Meetings Food preparation Food industry and trade Barbecue cookery Outdoor cookery African Americans Farmers Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the 1983 Florida Folk Festival
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- 1983-05
- Description
- One proof sheet with 20 black and white images (plus negatives). Includes images of the food pavilion area, barbequing, folklorist Nusz, and a meeting of the Florida Folklore Society.
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Jamaican wooden carvings for sale | Jamaican wooden carvings for sale | Still Image | Wood carving Wood craft Woodwork Figurines Art Arts, Jamaican Decorative arts Selling Street vendors Retail trade Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Jamaican wooden carvings for sale
- Date
- 1985-11-17
- Description
- Seven color slides. Carvings of human figurines out of wood. The Metro-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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Minorcan Folklife Area Fieldwork: Foodways | Minorcan Folklife Area Fieldwork: Foodways | Still Image | Dealers (retail trade) Fieldwork Cookery (Peppers) Gardening Gardens Plants Flora Retail trade Signs (commercial) Signs and signboards Advertising Commercial art Vegetables Vending stands Stores, retail Economic practices Gardeners | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Minorcan Folklife Area Fieldwork: Foodways
- Date
- 1982-10-28
- Description
- One proof sheet with 19 black and white prints (plus negatives). Images of a vegetable and fruit stand; and George Van der Bush's datil pepper garden. Created as research for the Minorcan Folklife Area for the 1983 Florida Folk Festival.
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Orange fruit stand near Lake Wales | Orange fruit stand near Lake Wales | Still Image | Merchants Fieldwork Selling Orange industry Oranges Vending stands Signs (commercial) Signs and signboards Citrus fruit industry Citrus industry Food industry and trade Food preparation Retail trade Stores, retail Dealers (Retail trade) Economic practices Street vendors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Orange fruit stand near Lake Wales
- Date
- 1983
- Description
- One proof sheet with 30 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of McClures fruit stand near Lake Wales.
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Palm Beach Architecture | Palm Beach Architecture | Still Image | Fieldwork Architecture Streets Retail trade Buildings Structures Community culture Landscape Decoration and ornament | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Palm Beach Architecture
- Date
- 1987-01-20
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Images of Worth Avenue, including Via Parigi, Via Mizner, Carters, and various shops. Many of the structures were designed by famed Florida architect Addison Minzer. 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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Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 3 of 15) | Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 3 of 15) | Moving Image | Bands (Music) Needleworkers Folk festivals Festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts String bands Stringband music String instruments Old time music Autoharp Autoharp music Zither Arts, Cuban Comparsa tradition Tents Signs and signboards Retail trade Craft Architecture Carillons Workshops (Adult education) Guitar music Guitarists Guitar Needlework Arts, Hungarian Sewing Dancers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 3 of 15)
- Date
- 1991-05-25
- Description
- One video recording (3/4" tape; 22 minutes) Unedited footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festival. Starts with the 97th Regimental String Band, then footage of the folklife tent: an autoharpist; Hunagrian needleworker Horvath, comparsa dancers Irene & Emelia Fernandez; the bell carillon; various craft tents; a guitar workshop; and the Friends of Florida Folklife tent.
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a_s1576_22_c86-183 | Recording of Auctioneer Bill Myers selling antiques | Sound | Auctioneers Education Sound recordings Selling Antiques Auctions Auctioneering Retail trade Oral communication Oratory Oral performance Speech play Speech events Workplace Occupational groups Occupational folklore Orators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of Auctioneer Bill Myers selling antiques
- Date
- 1984-12-01
- Description
- One audio cassette. Known as Colonel Bill Myers, he auctions off antiques in the recording at Pioneer Auctions Company on Southside Blvd. in Jacksonville. 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 began 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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The Breakers | The Breakers | Still Image | Fieldwork Architecture Hotels Retail trade Buildings Structures Community culture Landscape Decoration and ornament | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
The Breakers
- Date
- 1987-01-20
- Description
- One color slide. A classical revival hotel built in 1925. Made of clay, stone, and concrete. An architectural artifact of Florida's Land Boom era. 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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Workers at a fish house in Port St. Joe | Workers at a fish house in Port St. Joe | Still Image | Fishers Merchants Fieldwork Seafood industry Selling seafood Retail trade Dealers (Retail trade) Workplace Occupational groups Machinery Fisheries processing Fishery processing plants Buildings | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Workers at a fish house in Port St. Joe
- Date
- 1985
- Description
- Ten color slides. Taken at Wood's Fresh and Frozen fish house. Photos taken during fieldwork for video documentary on Florida shrimping called Fishing All My Days, and was made by the Florida Folklife Program, and the University of Florida (WUFT-TV).
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Yard sale in Oviedo | Yard sale in Oviedo | Still Image | Fieldwork Garage sales Retail trade Lawns Woodwork Material culture Craft | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Yard sale in Oviedo
- Date
- 1987-06
- Description
- Two 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 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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