Oyster shuckers at D. W. Wilson Seafood Company

Fieldwork

Oyster shucking

Blue collar workers

Community enterprise

Maritime life

Oysters

Work

Workplace

Food preparation

Seafood

Labor

Occupational groups

Folklorists

Photography

Research methods

Fishery processing plants

Fisheries processing

Employees

Shuckers

Workers

Four contact sheets with 139 black and white images; plus negatives and logs. To shuck an oyster means to remove the meat of the oyster from its shell. This was often done before the product was shipped to seafood dealers and restaurants. Sheets in envelope 31 feature images of folklorists Hepburn, Taylor, and Loomis talking with and taking slides of fish house workers. Collector Hepburn was from Dept. of Community Affairs, and joined the project after it began. 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

1986-11-13

Florida Folklife Program

photographs

Still Image

S1592

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4

Envelopes 29-32

Maritime Heritage Survey Project

Taylor, David, 1951-

Hepburn, Marcus

Hepburn, Marcus

Loomis, Ormond

Taylor, David, 1951-

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