| 1954 Florida Folk Festival photographs | 1954 Florida Folk Festival photographs | Still Image | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Dance
Quilting
Storytelling
Children
Games
String instruments
Filipino Americans
Asian American arts
Asian Americans
Native Americans
Creek Indians
Storytellers
Dancers
Students
Quiltmakers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1954 Florida Folk Festival photographs
- Date
- 1954-05
- Description
- Eight black and white prints. P82-36 Thelma Boltin telling a "Jack tale". P82-37 Esther Joralau, a UF graduate student, performing a Filipino dance. P82-38 Group photo of festival (including Creek Indian Fred Beaver in center). P82-39 square dancers and string band. P82-40 Jump rope demonstration. P82-41 Quilters. P82-42 Anglo UF students performing a Mexican folk dance. P82-43 Irish jigs. Mary Kennedy Kane, center. May 1954. See S 1576, reels T76-1 through T76-9, for recordings of the 1954 Florida Folk Festival
- Collection
| African American dancers and singers at the Florida Folk Festival | African American dancers and singers at the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | African Americans
Children
A capella singing
Costumes
Students
Performing arts
Dancers
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Alberta Williams making lye soap | Alberta Williams making lye soap | Still Image | Education
Schools
African Americans
Demonstrations
Students
Teaching of folklore
Classrooms
Domestic arts
Soap
Lye | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alberta Williams making lye soap
- Date
- 1985-01
- Description
- Twenty-five color slides. Demonstrating lye soap making at Mami Agnes Elementary School. Slides 4019-4028 are in volume 38. 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, 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.
- Collection
| Alfonso W. Levy | Alfonso W. Levy | Still Image | Musicians
Music director
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Children
African Americans
Performing arts
Choir singing
Singers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alfonso W. Levy
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- Six black and white prints. Levy was a popular Lake City musician (playing with the Salt and Pepper Trio)as well as music director at Trinity Methodist Church and principal of Niblack School. Images are of Levy leading several choirs at the Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Alfonso W. Levy | Alfonso W. Levy | Still Image | Musicians
Music director
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Children
African Americans
Performing arts
Choir singing
Singers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alfonso W. Levy
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- Six black and white prints. Levy was a popular Lake City musician (playing with the Salt and Pepper Trio) as well as music director at Trinity Methodist Church and principal of Niblack School. Images are of Levy leading several choirs at the Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Alvin Goodvine demonstrating whip making for Melrose Elementary School students | Alvin Goodvine demonstrating whip making for Melrose Elementary School students | Still Image | Whip maker
Children
Fieldwork
Demonstrations
Education
Classrooms
Whip making
Whips
Leather craft
African Americans
Whipcracking
Leather workers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alvin Goodvine demonstrating whip making for Melrose Elementary School students
- Date
- 1982-02-12
- Description
- One proof sheet with 18 black and white images (plus negatives). For more images, see S 1577, volume 11, slides S82-1190 through S82-1209. 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.
- Collection
| Alvin Goodvine making whips for students at Melrose Park Elementary School | Alvin Goodvine making whips for students at Melrose Park Elementary School | Still Image | Whip maker
Leather workers
Education
Elementary schools
Teaching of folklore
Classrooms
Demonstrations
Whip making
African Americans
Whips
Leather craft
Children
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alvin Goodvine making whips for students at Melrose Park Elementary School
- Date
- 1982-02-12
- Description
- Twenty color slides. 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. For more images, see S 1577, box 19, folder 25. 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.
- Collection
| Ann Duffy demonstrating Easter egg decorating | Ann Duffy demonstrating Easter egg decorating | Still Image | Education
Schools
Classrooms
Elementary schools
Students
Teaching of folklore
Egg decoration
Eggs
Easter eggs
Craft
Demonstrations
Painting
Holidays and festivals
Artisans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Ann Duffy demonstrating Easter egg decorating
- Date
- 1985-04-03
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Duffy, an East European, demonstrates traditional methods for decorating Easter eggs to San Pablo Elementary students. 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, 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.
- Collection
| a_s1608_02_tape04 | Anthony Brown demonstrating recitations at the Melrose Junior High School for the Hamilton & Columbia Counties Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Junior high schools
Students
Classrooms
Recitations
Oratory
Public speaking
Field recordings
African Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| Anthony Brown demonstrating traditional monologues at Melrose Park Elementary School | Anthony Brown demonstrating traditional monologues at Melrose Park Elementary School | Still Image | Orators
Education
Elementary schools
Teaching of folklore
Classrooms
Children
Students
Demonstrations
Oral communication
African Americans
Storytelling
Oral performance | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Anthony Brown demonstrating traditional monologues at Melrose Park Elementary School
- Date
- 1982-02-05
- Description
- Two color slides. For more images, see S 1577, box 19, folder 25 (proof sheet P83-71). For a recording of Brown, see S 1608, box 2, tape 4. 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.
- Collection
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