Cooks, Makers, and Painters
See many images from the Florida Folklife collections.
Basket Making
Apprentice Michael Steen watches teacher Alphonso Jennings weave a white oak basket
Historically, baskets have been essential items in households and on farms. Methods and materials for constructing baskets varies widely. Some African-American communities maintain traditions of basket making.
See more Florida Memory photographs:
- Basket maker Lucreaty Clark tearing white oak into strips
- Basket maker Lucreaty Clark holding a white oak basket she made- Lamont, Florida
- Basket makers Alfonso Jennings and Lucreaty Clark - Lamont, Florida
- Basket weaving at a FERA vocational school - Bradenton, Florida
Cooking
- George Alexander and his open pit barbecue at Zora Neale Hurston Festival- Eatonville, Florida
- George Alexander barbecuing at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities - Eatonville, Florida
- Liliane Louis demonstrating Haitian cooking at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival - White Springs, Florida
- Woman serving food at the Beulah Baptist Church food booth at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival - White Springs, Florida
Camp cook preparing a meal in Wakulla County, 1946
Other makers: quilts, whips, landscapes
Quilter Sally Jones at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival - White Springs, Florida- Quilter Sally Jones and display of quilts - White Springs, Florida
- Alvin Goodvine standing on his front porch holding whips - Lake City, Florida
- Alvin Goodvine demonstrating how to make a whip - Melrose, Florida
- Florida Highwaymen painter, R. L. Lewis puts finishing touches on painting while attending the Tallahassee Museum's (Jr. Museum) annual Market Days fund raiser held at the North Florida Fairgrounds
- Group portrait during dedication ceremony for painting by Highwayman Artist Robert Butler at the Old Capitol - Tallahassee, Florida
Alvin Goodvine holds one of his handmade whips
