| a_s1576_t86-225 | WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Americans
Songs, Greek
Songs, Slavic
Minorcans
Minorcan Americans
Love songs
Christmas music
Carols
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
- Date
- 1939-08-26
- Description
- One reel to reel. These recordings were created by Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1940. He created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On this recording, Morris recorded Greek singers in Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville, Minorcans in St. Augustine, and unidentified singers from the Czechoslovakian community of Slavia, founded in 1911. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida’s FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art’s Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida’s WPA program by the Library of Congress’ Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1618_05_tape10 | Vicki Smith interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Restaurant workers
Crabbing
Field recordings
Oral narratives
Interviews
Seafood
Fish markets
Fish traps
Restaurants
Crab traps | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Vicki Smith interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1989-02-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Smith builds traps for Clark's Fish Camp in Jacksonville. At the time of the interview, she had just learned the crabbing trade. She discusses making traps; types of traps; crab seasons; commercial fishers; Clark's Fish Camp; and other fish camps.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t77-033 | Tuesday evening performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Singers
Dancers
Musicians
Fiddlers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Performing arts
Dance
Gospel songs
Singing
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| Tolomato cemetery | Tolomato cemetery | Still Image | Fishers
Fieldwork
Architecture
Tabby (concrete)
Stone structures
Stone walls
Minorcans
Grave markers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Tolomato cemetery
- Date
- 1983-10
- Description
- Ten color slides. Tolomato marks the last place the Tolomato peoples lived in Florida. The walls around the cemetery made of tabby (a concrete made from oyster shells, lime, and sand.)
- Collection
| Theresa Griffin performing Spanish drawnwork | Theresa Griffin performing Spanish drawnwork | Still Image | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Needlework
Sewing
Decorative arts
Domestic arts
Minorcans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Theresa Griffin demonstrating Spanish drawnwork | Theresa Griffin demonstrating Spanish drawnwork | Still Image | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Decorative arts
Needlework
Craft
Sewing
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Thelma Pacetti doing crochet work | Thelma Pacetti doing crochet work | Still Image | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Needlework
Sewing
Decorative arts
Domestic arts
Minorcans
Crocheting | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| The Trivette Family playing bluegrass | The Trivette Family playing bluegrass | Still Image | Fieldwork
Guitarists
Music performance
Performing arts
Bluegrass musicians
Bluegrass music
Old time music
Musical instruments
Guitar
String instruments
Research methods
Folklorists
Singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
The Trivette Family playing bluegrass
- Date
- 1985-02-13
- Description
- Twenty-seven color slides. Images of the Trivette family playing bluegrass in Fred Perry's home in St. Augustine. Players consisted of Frank Trivette Sr.(banjo, fiddle) Frank Trivette Jr. (guitar), Doug Trivette (guitar), Buddy Beck (mandolin) and Carlos Brackett (bass). Folklorists Owen Blanton and Mary Anne McDonald can be seen in images 1427 and 1449. In winter 1985, the Bureau joined with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the "St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area" at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| The St. George Street Players at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | The St. George Street Players at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Drama
Traveling theater
Costumes
Actors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| The St. George Street Players at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | The St. George Street Players at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Costumes
Clothing and dress
Drama
Acting
Theater
Actors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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