Images of the 1985 Crescent City Catfish Festival

Cooks

Fishers

Fieldwork

Festivals

Cookery (Seafood)

Seafood

Outdoor cookery

Crabs

Catfishes

Barbecue cookery

Recreation

Leisure

Food preparation

Cooking and dining

One proof sheet, with 17 black and whites images (plus negatives). Images of the catfish festival in Crescent City, including Noles cooking crabs, and fisher Eddie Oxendine. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted 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.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1985-04

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1577

19

105

Photographic prints

P86-2

St. Johns River Survey

Owen, Blanton, 1945-1998

Noles, Tommy, 1940-

Oxendine, Eddie, 1951-

African American

6955

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