| Captain Eddie Baker | Captain Eddie Baker | Still Image | Fieldwork
Boats and boating
Fishers
Docks
Seafood gathering
African Americans
Workplace
Occupational groups
Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Captain Eddie Baker
- Date
- 1986-07-22
- Description
- Nine color slides. Images of Captain Eddie Baker at the Mayport docks. The boat behind him is the Miss Alice, named for his wife. He once captained that boat before health issues retired him. At the time, he was the oldest fisher in Mayport. 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 may be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
- Collection
| Copies of 1957 Mayport photos | Copies of 1957 Mayport photos | Still Image | Fieldwork
Boats and boating
Trawls and trawling
Special events
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Rites and ceremonies
Seafood gathering
Workplace
Occupational groups
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Copies of 1957 Mayport photos
- Date
- 1957
- Description
- Nineteen black and white slides. Images of shrimp boats, a memorial service, and shrimpers in Mayport, ca. 1957. Copied from the family photographs of Geraldine Gabagen Margerum. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on 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 may be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
- Collection
| Filming the shrimping documentary with the Herrin Brothers building a boat | Filming the shrimping documentary with the Herrin Brothers building a boat | Still Image | Boatbuilding
Carpentry
Woodwork
Woodworking tools
Workplace
Documentary videos
Video recording
Television cameras
Television equipment and supplies
Material culture
Boats
Boatbuilders
Carpenters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Folklife at the Mayport Seafood Festival | Folklife at the Mayport Seafood Festival | Still Image | Festivals
Special events
Seafood
Maritime folklore
Maritime life
Choirs (music)
Workshops
Boats and boating
Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folklife at the Mayport Seafood Festival
- Date
- 1991-10-26
- Description
- Ten color slides. Images taken during the Mayport Seafood Festival. 1: Welding shop; 2: Matt Rolland's dock; 3-5: Shrimp boats; 6-8: Black church choir; 9-10: Festival crowds.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt002 | Interview with Captain Eddie Baker | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Life histories
Sound recordings
Oral histories
Fishers
Occupational groups
Boats and boating
Seafood gathering
Family history
Maritime life
Maritime folklore
Occupational folklore
Folklore
Labor
African Americans
Family farming
Religion
Beliefs and cultures
World War, 1939-1945
Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Captain Eddie Baker
- Date
- 1986-07-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Captain Eddie Baker. Born in Georgia, Baker moved to Mayport in the 1920s, and worked as a captain for several fish houses. He discusses growing up around fishing and farming; farming techniques; learning the trade; recreational fishing; eating and cooking fish; skippering shrimp boats; economic aspects of shrimping; immigrant fishers in Mayport; regulations of fishing; World War II in Florida; bait; weather lore; superstitions and folklore; dangers of shrimping; and race relations. 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
| a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt012 | Interview with fisher Albert Gufford | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Fishing
Recreation
Rivers
Boats and boating
Local history
Tourism
Tourists
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Fishing tackle
Fishing weights
Charter boat fishing
Boats and boating Chartering
Smuggling
Charter boat captains
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fisher Albert Gufford
- Date
- 1986-08-08
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with retired fisher and charter boat captain Gufford in his home in Mayport. He discusses fishing; making fishing tackle (lead fishing weights); boating; tourism; sports fishers; rum running during Prohibition; drug smuggling; and local history. Throughout the recording, a loud electric fan can be heard blowing. 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. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). 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
| a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt004 | Interview with Geraldine Margerum and John Gavagan, Jr. | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recording
Interviewing
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Family history
Shrimpers (persons)
Saltwater fishing
Labor
World War, 1939-1945
Cooking and dining
Seafood gathering
Cookery (Mullet)
Seafood
Folklore
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Geraldine Margerum and John Gavagan, Jr.
- Date
- 1986-07-26
- Description
- Three audio cassettes. Interview with Geraldine Margerum, whose family were long-time Mayport fishers. She discusses growing up in North Carolina; moving to Florida in the 1930s; working at a local Jacksonville restaurant; World War II; her father-in-law; a local Duval County judge; her husband's death at sea in 1956; Mayport in 1940s and 1950s; commercial fishing; pogy fishing (Menhaden); cooking mullet; stories of local residents; drug running in Mayport; and local legends. Recorded in her home in Neptune Beach. 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
| a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt014 | Interview with Hilton Floyd | Sound | Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Occupational groups
Maritime life
Fishing nets
Cotton
Netmaking
Shrimpers (persons)
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Hilton Floyd
- Date
- 1986-08-21
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with fishing gear specialist, and former fisher, Hilton Floyd. Interviewed in Pascagoula, Mississippi, by his wife Helen Floyd. He discusses Mayport fishers; making and using cast nets; working for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries with the US Fish and Wildlife Commission; types of nets; gill nets; sea island cotton; nylon netting; and shrimping. 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
| a_s1576_23_c86-198 | Interview with net maker Martin Cooper | Sound | Net maker
Fishers
Fishing nets
Occupational groups
Nets
Netmaking
Workplace
Workshops
Weaving
Occupational folklore
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Maritime folklore
Labor
Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with net maker Martin Cooper
- Date
- 1984-07-24
- Description
- Fifteen color slides. For images of Cooper, see S 1577, v. 37. Cooper, also a fisher, discusses local (Mayport) Swedish and Portuguese fishers; starting out as a fisher in the 1950s; his work as a fisher and as a security guard at Mayport naval base; entering the net business; river shrimping; various seafood licenses; the changing nature of shrimp boats and the trade; the process of making a net; catching mullet; net styles; time involved in netmaking; materials for making nets; various types of nets; and repairing nets. 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
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