Images of 1920s-era photographs of the St. Johns River

Fishers

Fieldwork

Photography

Banjoes

Tugboats

Steamboats

Advertisements

Schooners

Rivers

Boats and boating

Johnboats

Fish traps

Maritime life

String instruments

Children

One proof sheet, with 21 black and whites images (plus negatives). Four images from the collection of Joe Newman Mullis, including two of May Mullis playing a cigar-box banjo; and two of her father Will Mullis working on a tugboat. Twelve images of the St. Johns River from the Putnam County Archives. And the last five images are of fisher Eddie Oxendine's boat and crab traps. 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

1920

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1577

19

105

Photographic prints

P86-4

St. Johns River Survey

McDonald, Mary Anne

Newman, May

Newman, Will

Oxendine, Eddie, 1951-

African American

6956

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