| US Sugar Corporation commissary | US Sugar Corporation commissary | Still Image | Fieldwork
Specialty stores
Stores, retail
Selling
Food
Food industry and trade
Sugar
Company stores | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
US Sugar Corporation commissary
- Date
- 1988-03
- Description
- Fourteen color slides. Store for selling food and products to employees of US Sugar Corporation. 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.
- Collection
| Trucks leaving the Sugar Grower's Cooperative Mill | Trucks leaving the Sugar Grower's Cooperative Mill | Still Image | Fieldwork
Agriculture
Trucks
Packing-houses
Sugar
Buildings
Community enterprise
Food industry and trade | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Trucks leaving the Sugar Grower's Cooperative Mill
- Date
- Description
- One color slide. 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.
- Collection
| Sugarcane field in Pahokee, Florida | Sugarcane field in Pahokee, Florida | Still Image | Agriculture
Crops
Sugar crops
Cash crops
Plants
Sugarcane
Sugar | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Sugarcane farming | Sugarcane farming | Still Image | Sugar
Sugarcane
Land use
Agriculture
Farming
Plants
Cash crops
Sugar crops | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sugarcane farming
- Date
- Description
- One black and white print. Image of sugar cane growing. 12 December 1980.
- Collection
| Sugar mill at Osceola Farms | Sugar mill at Osceola Farms | Still Image | Fieldwork
Workers
Agriculture
Farming
Sugar
Sugar crops
Sugarcane
Cash crops
Plants
Flora
Milling
Mills
Sugar factories
Sugar Manufacture and refining | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sugar mill at Osceola Farms
- Date
- 1986-11-08
- Description
- Forty-seven color slides. Images of a sugar mill run by Osceola Farms, including the mill workers, the machinery, harvesting of sugarcane, the warehouse, and the final product: crystallized sugar. In 1960 Cuban immigrants Pepe and Alfy Fanjul moved their sugar manufacturing operation to Florida, and 4000 acre Osceola Farms, But the mid-1980s, it was earning 240 million a year with tens of thousands of acres. By the 1990s, the company became Florida Crystals, and was the state's largest sugar company, one of the companies often nicknamed as Big Sugar. 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.
- Collection
| Sugar cane fields burning | Sugar cane fields burning | Still Image | Fieldwork
Burning of land
Agriculture
Farming
Sugar
Sugar crops
Sugarcane
Cash crops
Plants
Flora
Fire
Smoke | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sugar cane fields burning
- Date
- 1986-11-08
- Description
- Twenty-five color slides. Burning sugar cane fields on Osceola Farms. 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.
- Collection
| Sugar cane fields | Sugar cane fields | Still Image | Agriculture
Sugarcane products
Sugar
Material culture
Food industry and trade
Food | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sugar cane fields
- Date
- Description
- Three black and white prints, with negatives.
- Collection
| Sign for the U.S. Sugar Corporation | Sign for the U.S. Sugar Corporation | Still Image | Fieldwork
Signs and signboards
Signs (commercial)
Sugar | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sign for the U.S. Sugar Corporation
- Date
- 1987-10
- Description
- One color slide. 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.
- Collection
| Sign for the Sugarland Park Municipal Compelx | Sign for the Sugarland Park Municipal Compelx | Still Image | Fieldwork
Signs and signboards
Signs (commercial)
Sugar | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sign for the Sugarland Park Municipal Compelx
- Date
- 1987-10
- Description
- One color slide. 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.
- Collection
| Park ranger Emory Lane making cane syrup at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days | Park ranger Emory Lane making cane syrup at the 1990 Rural Folklife Days | Still Image | Park rangers
Cooks
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Park Ranger
Boiling (Cookery)
Sugar
Demonstrations
Sugarcane grinding
Cookery (syrups)
Cane syrup
Syrups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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