| The Gandy Dancers at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival | The Gandy Dancers at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival | Moving Image | Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Festivals
Demonstrations
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
African Americans
Work songs
Railroad work
Singing
A capella singers
Workers
Dancers
Railroads Employees | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
The Gandy Dancers at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1993-05
- Description
- One video tape (also copied onto a SONY mini Video8). Features the Gandy Dancers demonstrating work songs used when laying rail track. Also features CSX workers preparing the tracks at the festival used in the demonstration.
- Collection
| a_s1576_17_c85-035 | Copies of the 1985 radio program: Working Lives | Sound | Documentaries Radio
Radio
Radio programs
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Labor
Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Copies of the 1985 radio program: Working Lives
- Date
- 1985
- Description
- Seven audio cassettes. NOTE: Because this is a copyrighted recording, no copies can be made of the tapes. Copies of a 1985 radio documentary on Alabama worker cultures that was created by the University of Alabama's Archives of American Minority Cultures. Created in 1979.
- Collection
| a_s1708_05_tape08 | Interview with sugar cane worker Joe Mosley | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Life histories
Sound recordings
Interviews
Cookery (Sugar)
Sugarcane
Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with sugar cane worker Joe Mosley
- Date
- 1987-03-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk arts project 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_11_c83-129 | Recording of jungle cruise spiel by Don Utz, glass bottom boat captain and tour guide at Silver Springs | Sound | Boat driver
Boat drivers
Boat driving
Boats and boating
Performing arts
Tours
Tourism
Oral performance
Jokes
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Springs
Fieldwork
Workers
Wildlife watching industry
Ecotourism
Storytelling
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_11_c83-128 | Recording of jungle cruise spiel by Fred Jokler, glass bottom boat captain and tour guide at Silver Springs | Sound | Boat driver
Boat drivers
Boat driving
Boats and boating
Performing arts
Tours
Tourism
Oral performance
Jokes
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Springs
Fieldwork
Workers
Wildlife watching industry
Ecotourism
Storytelling
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_11_c83-130 | Recording of jungle cruise spiel by Joe Klotz, glass bottom boat captain and tour guide at Silver Springs | Sound | Boat driver
Boat drivers
Boat driving
Boats and boating
Performing arts
Tours
Tourism
Oral performance
Jokes
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Springs
Fieldwork
Workers
Wildlife watching industry
Ecotourism
Storytelling
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recording of jungle cruise spiel by Joe Klotz, glass bottom boat captain and tour guide at Silver Springs
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. Features a jungle cruise tour spiel conducted by Joe Klotz. Klotz discusses various animals on the tour, such as pea foul, giraffes, monkeys, turkeys, ostriches, meat-eating birds; zebras, camels, sheep, and spider monkeys. In addition, he talks about special diets for certain species in wildlife refuges.
- Collection
| Apalachicola oysterers | Apalachicola oysterers | Still Image | Fieldwork
Occupational groups
Oyster fisheries
Oyster industries
Boats and boating
Skiffs
Maritime life
Labor
Transportation
Waterways
Saltwater fishing
Workers
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Apalachicola oysterers
- Date
- 1986-10-30
- Description
- Twenty-two color slides. 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.
- Collection
| Artie Miller making sails | Artie Miller making sails | Still Image | Sailmakers
Fieldwork
Occupational groups
Workplace
Sails
Material culture
Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Artie Miller making sails
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- Three 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.
- Collection
| Beekeeper Al Ballard | Beekeeper Al Ballard | Still Image | Beekeepers
Fieldwork
Bee culture
Beekeeping
Occupational groups
Insects
Citrus
Trees
Beehives
Workers
Labor | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Beekeeper Al Ballard
- Date
- 1988-01-27
- Description
- One proof with 21 black and white images (plus negatives). Ballard was born in Myakka City, where his family dates back to 1860. His father was a beekepper, and when Al retired from the U.S. Army in 1978, he began beekeeping. The Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project was conducted under the direction of Barbara Beauchamp in two phases: 12 November 1987 through 31 January 1988 by Debbie Fant; and in February 1988 by Nancy Nusz. Using a 35mm camera and a Sony tape recorder, and funded through a NEA grant,the two fieldworkers spoke with over fifty informants in Manatee, Sarasota, Lee, Collier, and Charlotte counties, resulting in 20 participants chosen for a special SW Florida folklife area at the 36th Annual Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Beekeeper Al Ballard | Beekeeper Al Ballard | Still Image | Beekeepers
Fieldwork
Bee culture
Beekeeping
Occupational groups
Insects
Citrus
Trees
Beehives
Workers
Labor | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Beekeeper Al Ballard
- Date
- 1988-01-27
- Description
- Fourteen color slides. Ballard was born in Myakka City, where his family dates back to 1860. His father was a beekepper, and when Al retired from the U.S. Army in 1978, he began beekeeping. The Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project was conducted under the direction of Barbara Beauchamp in two phases: 12 November 1987 through 31 January 1988 by Debbie Fant; and in February 1988 by Nancy Nusz. Using a 35mm camera and a Sony tape recorder, and funded through a NEA grant,the two fieldworkers spoke with over fifty informants in Manatee, Sarasota, Lee, Collier, and Charlotte counties, resulting in 20 participants chosen for a special SW Florida folklife area at the 36th Annual Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
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