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x-0213-1 · Collectie · 1966-1974

Letters and notes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas are mostly from William C. Sturtevant, Curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. Contains research notes on Britton Hammon and plans to reprint Hammon's narrative, "Notes on The Uncommon sufferings of a Negro man in Florida and Cuba, 1747-1760. Also included is a hand written manuscript by Douglas for an article entitled, "Green," that was published in the Village Post.

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HMF9027 · Collectie · 2016-2019

The Miami Street Culture Project was an initiative to document and present cultural traditions practiced in the streets of Miami. HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center conducted fieldwork to identify prominent artistic, communal, recreational, and occupational traditions practiced within Miami’s neighborhoods and produced an exhibition to share these traditions with the larger community. In addition to field research and an exhibition, the project includes an artifact collection, a printed publication, and cultural programming. The purpose of the project was to research and highlight street traditions that give the city its unique character and identity.

HMF9026 · Collectie · 2015-2017

The Florida Folklife Program sought to explore Miami’s inner world thirty years ago with the first Miami-Dade folklife survey conducted for the 1986 Florida Folk Festival. The survey highlighted Miami’s traditional culture and provided the impetus for the creation of the South Florida Folklife Center at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, now HistoryMiami Museum. In 2016, the Florida Folklife Program partnered with the now three-decades-old HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center to reexamine Miami’s folk traditions and paint a new portrait of the city by exploring the question, “What makes Miami, Miami?” Fieldwork was conducted by HistoryMiami Museum’s Folklife Specialist, Vanessa Navarro, and Vice President of Curatorial Affairs and former staff Folklorist, Michael Knoll. The project was overseen by the Florida Folklife Program’s State Folklorist, Amanda Hardeman.

This field research project focused on customs and practices that are unique to Miami, particularly the sayings, occupations, musical styles, dance forms, beliefs, rituals, celebrations, and foodways that are quintessentially “Miami.” The findings of this study informed the 2016 Florida Folk Festival, and the artists and presenters chosen for the program reflect a sampling of the components that make Miami the unique and vibrant city it is.

This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

HMF9025 · Collectie · 2010-2012

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Florida Jai-Alai Project, a fieldwork project aimed at identifying and documenting the state's leading practitioners of the Basque ballgame's traditions. Research was conducted in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Gainesville, Dania Beach, Quincy, Ocala, St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, and Miami. The project began in June 2010 and concluded in December 2012. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Knoll created the project and was the lead researcher. Robert L. Stone was the photographer and conducted fieldwork in North and Central Florida. The Florida Folklife Program also assisted with archival research.

Access Notes: This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

Audio:

Files include MP3 recordings, interview logs, and transcripts of interviews with Christophe Forestier, Benjamin Bueno, David Dodd, Juan Ramon Arrasate, Kathleen Jones, Manuel Ruiz, Martin Fleischman, Richard Berenson, Stuart Neiman, Juan Jose Carroquino, Clemente Garcia, Jesus Pradera, Wagimen Soemanto, Carlos Pita, Glen Richards, Charles David Brower, Juan Leon, Raphael Ferragut, Santiago Echaniz, Francisco Elorriaga, Roger Coscarat, Dale Popp, Ivan Martinez, Luis Gardner, Carlos Campos, and Paco Gonzalez.

Images:

Files include JPEG and CR2 images taken at frontons in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Quincy, St. Petersburg, Ocala, Dania Beach, Miami, and West Palm Beach. Photographs by Robert L. Stone.

Fieldwork Documents:

Files include notes for fieldwork conducted in Hamilton County and Orlando.

Grant Documents:

Files include documents submitted for the National Endowment for the Arts grant application and reporting documents.

HMF9024 · Collectie · 2012

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Guayabera Preservation Initiative to collect, preserve, and increase public knowledge of the Guayabera, a traditional piece of menswear that is popular in Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative resulted in the exhibition, “The Guayabera: A Shirt’s Story” at HistoryMiami Museum from June 28, 2012 to January 13, 2012 and an online exhibition found at www.historymiami.org/guayabera. The initiative also resulted in the creation of a Guayabera textile collection housed in HistoryMiami Museum’s object collection. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Cubavera.

Michael Knoll created the project and was lead researcher and curator. Jorge Zamanillo was the project photographer and conducted interviews. Antolin Garcia Carbonell helped with historical research and fieldwork.

This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

Audio:

Files include WAV recordings and selected transcripts of interviews with Jose Ayuso, Ramon Aviles Gongora, Raul Armando Maglioni Montanez, Ciro Bianchi, Emiliano Nelson Guerra, Manuel Echevarria Gomez, Marta Veronica Vega, Tomas Canul, Nancy Pelegrin, Ricardo Selman, Silvia Mayra Gomez Farinas, and Piedad Subirats. These interviews were recorded in Merida, Mexico and Cuba during research tips in 2012.

Images:

Files include TIF, XMP, NEF, and JPEG images taken in Mexico in January 2012 and Cuba in February 2012. Shots include street scenes, photos of interviewees, businesses (former and current), sketches, old photographs, advertisements, and documentation of the process of making a Guayabera.

Exhibition:

Folder includes exhibition photos and design files such as text panels and reader rails.

Grant Documents:

Files include documents submitted for the National Endowment for the Arts grant application and reporting documents.

Videos:

Files include AVI videos of a folk dance troupe performing in the main plaza in Merida, Mexico in January 2012.

HMF9024 · Collectie · 2010-2012

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Guayabera Preservation Initiative to collect, preserve and increase public knowledge of the guayabera, a traditional piece of menswear that is popular in Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative resulted in the exhibition "Guayabera: A Shirt's Story" at HistoryMiami Museum from July 29, 2012 to January 13, 2013 and an online exhibition found at www.historymiami.org/guayabera.

This collection of electronic files includes research reference images; grant proprosals; audio-recorded interviews and their transcripts; images and videos taken during research trips to Merida, Mexico and Havana and Sancti Spiritus, Cuba; and exhibition files.

HMF9023 · Collectie · 2003-2006

This series contains materials associated with a project in which photographers from the Iris PhotoCollective documented the South Florida Haitian community’s expressive traditions between 2006 and 2007. The collection of photographs produced by the project give special attention to traditional arts in the lives of individuals during religious and festive events, offering a view of Haitian life in South Florida that rarely represented in mass media coverage of the community. Among the traditions featured are fe koupe (steel drum sculpture), woodcarving, sewing, cooking, baking, drumming, dancing, singing, poetry, kite-making, and children’s games. Materials include: field notes and reports; photographic images; audiocassette tape and compact disc (CD) recordings of interviews with artists and experts by Joanne Hyppolite and Kiki Wainwright.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9022 · Collectie · 2001-2002

This series documents an extensive research field research project on the cultural traditions of South Americans in the Miami metropolitan area. Though Miami’s South American community grew rapidly between the 1980s and the 2000s, their expressive traditions had previously been the subject of relatively little documentary work. Fieldwork conducted by the Museum during 2001 and 2002 by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) examined three of the largest South American groups in Miami: Colombians, Venezuelans, and Peruvians, focusing on music, which proved to be the most public and symbolically charged form of expression in all three communities. Musical genres documented include bambucos, música llanera, vallenato, cumbia, papayera, joropos, música andina, música criolla, parranda, gaita. Researchers Martha Ellen Davis, Nathalia Franco, and Dorian Bermudez recorded extensive commentary on relationships between musical traditions and the experience of migration. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Materials include: photographic images; audiocassette tape recordings of musical performances and interviews; and videocassette tape recordings of musical performances. Note: this series includes recordings for which HistoryMiami Museum does not hold copyright.

Additional digital formats of audio files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9021 · Collectie · 2000-2004

This series documents a proposed research project on calypso music conducted by Stephen Stuempfle, then Director of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum). The project, based on years of research by Stuempfle, was intended to offer the first holistic view of calypso’s international history through an online exhibition, a traveling museum exhibition, and public conferences. Highlights include rare musical recordings, as well as interviews and consultation meeting with calypso icon Ray Funk. Materials include: research documents and grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); audiocassette tape recordings of commercial and broadcast musical performances (several contributed by Kenneth Bilby) and documentary features; audio compact discs (CDs) of musical performances and interviews; and videocassette tape recordings of musical performances, interviews, and television broadcasts.

Additional digital formats of audio files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9020 · Collectie · 2000

This series contains materials related to a traveling exhibition—“The Scholar and the Collector: Fernando Ortiz, Los Instrumentos de la Música Afrocubana, and the Howard Collection of Percussion Instruments”—displayed at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) in 2000 in collaboration with InterAmericas (Society of Arts and Letter of the Americas), the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), and the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition focused on the relationship between Fernando Ortiz’s music scholarship and the musical instrument collection of the Joseph H. Howard family, both of which are concerned with the relationships between African musical traditions and related traditions in the Americas, particularly African, Cuban, and Haitian percussion traditions. Materials include: an exhibition catalog containing photographs and essays; audiocassette tape recordings of audio components of the exhibition, including musical demonstrations and a 1965 interview with Fernando Ortiz; videocassette tape and audio compact disc (CD) recordings of lectures by Fernando Ortiz, interviews with Victoria Howard and María Fernanda Ortiz Herrera, and marketing video for the exhibition in VHS and VHS-C formats.

Additional digital formats of audio, image, and project report files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9019 · Collectie · 1999-2000

This series consists of documents related to a project in which a group of high school students of Indo-Caribbean descent living in South Florida conducted field work in their community using photography and video. Since the 1980s, thousands of East Indians from Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, and Jamaica settled in South Florida. They continued to practice Indo-Caribbean cultural traditions, while also adjusting to an American way of life. Throughout 1999, ten high school students from the Indo-Caribbean community conducted a year-long project in collaboration with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) and the Documentary Unit at the University of Miami to use photography and video, which co-produced the project. The students were taught how to use cameras and camcorders, they then documented cultural activities in their community with a focus on Hindu worship and celebrations. Events documented included puja worship services, weddings, interviews, and the Phagwa festival. The project was supported by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Community Folklife Program. Materials include: grant-related documents including proposals and reports; photographic images; an audiocassette tape recording of the student’s responses to a rough cut of a documentary video; and videocassette tapes of original footage and a final version of a documentary based on the project in VHS and Betacam SP formats.

Additional digital formats of audio, image, and project report files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9018 · Collectie · 1999-2001

This series documents a field research project and exhibition on Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami at the turn of the millennium. Since the 1960s, Miami has been at the crossroads of the Americas and emerged as one of the major centers of the Afro-Cuban Orisha religion—also known as Regla de Ocha, Yoruba religion, or Santería—and its array of traditional arts. A local religious community of over 100,000 practitioners is served by numerous specialists who produce beadwork, garments, cloth panels, metalwork, woodcarvings, altars, musical instruments, paintings, and other art forms. These works of art are expressions of spiritual devotion, inspired by the many orishas (deities) of the religion’s pantheon, such as Elegbá, Ogún, Shangó, Obatalá, Yemojá, and Oshún. Though Orisha artists are highly respected within the religious community, their work is not well known or understood by the wider public, and the exhibition explored their creativity in the context of the aesthetics and symbolism of their tradition.

On display at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami) February 23-June 23, 2001, the exhibition was curated by Museum Director Stephen Stuempfle and co-curated by Miguel “Willie” Ramos, Ezequiel Torres, and Nelson Mendoza. Additionally, a website was created for the exhibition (http://historymiamiarchives.org/online-exhibits/orisha/orisha_start.htm). The project received major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and additional support was received from the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.

Materials include: field notes, grant applications and reports, exhibit-related permissions and documents; ephemera; photographic prints, contact sheets, 35mm slides, negatives, and logs; audiocassette tape recordings of lectures, roundtable discussions, interviews, musical performances, and audio components of the exhibition; digital images on a Zip 100 disc; and VHS and Hi8 MP video tapes, including video components of the exhibition.

Additional digital formats of audio, video, and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9017 · Collectie · 1998-2000

This series consists of documents generated by the “Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts from the Panhandle to the Keys” project, which included extensive fieldwork and culminated in an exhibition on display at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) between September 18, 1988 and January 3, 1999. The exhibition subsequently traveled to four other museums in Florida throughout 1999 and 2000: the Orange County Historical Society (Orlando); the Museum of Florida History (Tallahassee); Museum of Science and History (Jacksonville); and the Tampa Bay History Center (Tampa). The project also produced a 104-page book—Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities, edited by Stephen Stuempfle—which is included in the series. The book includes essays by Stuempfle and Tina Bucuvalas, then presents brief profiles (including photographs) of 84 artists whose respective traditions are organized into four categories: Maritime, Marsh, and Ranching Traditions; Domestic and Decorative Traditions; Ritual and Festive Traditions; and Musical Traditions. Artist profiles—researched and written by more than a dozen fieldworkers—include: Nick Toth (Diving Helmets), Billy Davis (Spurs), Ethel Santiago (Sweetgrass Baskets), Manuel Vega (Bridcages and Kites), Honey Perlman (Ketubot), Bahamas Junkanoo Revue (Junkanoo Costumes), and Romeo Ragbir (Tassa Drums). Materials include: a copy of Florida Folklife; photographic 35mm slides; and audiocassette tape recordings of interviews, musical performances, a radio program promoting the exhibition, and audio amplified in the exhibition.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMF9016 · Collectie · 1996-1999

This series documents a seminal field research project and exhibition on the percussion traditions practiced by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Trinidadians and Bahamians living in Miami. Traditions documented include Bahamian Junkanoo, Trinadadian Steel Pan and Tassa, Haitian Vodou Music, Indo-Caribbean Dholak ensembles, Jamaican Nyabingi, Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena, and Cuban Rumba and Batá. In the second half of the 20th century, Miami was transformed from a predominantly tourist-oriented southern city into an international metropolis in which more than one-third of the population is of Caribbean descent. One expression of this transformation was the proliferation of nightclubs and radio stations that feature Caribbean popular music styles, such as Salsa, Merengue, Reggae, Soca and Konpa. But Miami’s Caribbean musical heritage extended far beyond well-known, popular styles. In more secluded settings and at special festive occasions in Caribbean neighborhoods, the sounds of an immense variety of drums and other percussion instruments constituted complex musical languages which, though often immediately appealing to outsiders, require years to fully learn and understand. In many cases, these musical languages are interrelated with systems of religious or philosophical knowledge. Researchers Steve Stuempfle, Joanne Hyppolite, Alberto de la Reguera, and Dawn Batson spent approximately one year conducting fieldwork beginning in March 1996. Partial funding came from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources. The Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) exhibition of the project was on display May 21-October 26, 1997 and accompanied by educational programming, several publications, demonstrations in the museum, seminars and performances at the Museum and North Miami Beach Performing Arts Theater, and a compact disc (CD) recording. Materials include: documents related to project planning and grants, including field work notes, applications, letters of support, reports, memoranda, inventories, budgets, scripts, exhibition labels, promotional materials, and ephemera; recording logs and permission forms; copies of the CD; press clippings; 35mm photographic slides; audiocassette tape recordings of interviews (in English, Spanish, and Kreyol) and musical performances with attendant notes; and videocassette tape recordings of instrument-making and both public and private ritual performances.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.