Mayport scenes, c. 1950s

Boats and boating

Boatbuilders

Seafood gathering

Fishing nets

Occupational groups

Labor

Maritime life

Docks

Fishers

Shrimpers (persons)

Three contact sheets with 88 photographic black and white images; plus logs and negatives. Copies of photographs taken by Helen Floyd Cooper, a long-time Mayport resident with an interest in the local fishing culture. 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.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1592

1950

Florida Folklife Program

photographs

Still Image

S1592

4

5

Envelopes 41-43

Maritime Heritage Survey Project

Floyd, Helen Cooper

African American

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