Auctioneer Bill Myers selling off antiques

Fieldwork

Auctioneering

Occupational groups

Workplace

Selling

Oratory

Auctions

Economic practices

Antiques

Dealers (Retail trade)

Oral performance

Oral communication

Auctioneers

Orators

Seventeen color slides. Known as Colonel Bill Myers, images show him auctioning antiques at the Pioneer Auction Company on Southside Blvd. in Jacksonville. 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.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1984-12

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 39

S86-4213 - C86-4228

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Taylor, David, 1951-

Myers, Bill

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