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Series 3: Field documentation arranged by fieldworker
Series Note: Field photography descriptions are copied directly from B and C logs via Optical Character Recognition, so errors and abbreviations exist.
Summary: Field notes, sound recordings, recording logs, photography, photography logs, and reports in which fieldworkers recorded and interpreted their daily activities, observations, and impressions.
Arrangement: These materials are arranged alphabetically by fieldworker last name and then by log type.
Pre-fieldwork documentation
BOX-FOLDER 12/94 Informants' names and addresses
BOX-FOLDER 12/95 Municipal codes and place name forms
Author: American Folklife Center
Digital content available: afc1991023_12_095
Extent: 35 manuscript pages (8.5 x 14 inch or smaller)
BOX-FOLDER 12/96 Interview forms
Author: American Folklife Center
Digital content available: afc1991023_12_096
Extent: 23 manuscript pages (8.5 x 14 inch or smaller)
Bonnie Blair
Field notes
BOX-FOLDER 12/97 Field notes
Author: Bonnie Blair
Digital content available: afc1991023_12_097
Extent: 92 manuscript pages (8.5 x 14 inch or smaller)
Field photography on black-and-white film
BOX-FOLDER 12/98 B log (black-and-white photo log)
Author: Bonnie Blair
Digital content available: afc1991023_12_098
Extent: 14 manuscript pages (8.5 x 14 inch or smaller)
See also Blair, Bonnie--B/W contact sheets in Field Project Reference File in Reading Room
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 216651-04 Cranberry packing house; Interview with George Marquez; Coffee in Orlando and Hazel Torres' house before going out to the bogs, Vincentown, New Jersey, October 14, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-216651-04
Digital content available: afc1991023_216651_04
Extent: 29 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
G-Chatsworth; 27GT; 1-3, Pond Just outside the gates of Birches Road Farm; 4-5, Hazel and Orlando Torres' daughter Amanda, in their house; her first birthday is October 26th; 6-8, Hazel and Orlando Torres' son Joshua, in their house; his third birthday is November 26th; 9-10, overexposed; G-Chatsworth; 27GT; 11-14, cranberry harvesters getting in the trucks after clearing one bog, preparing to move to another site for harvesting; 15-16, George Marquez at the door of the packing house; 17-19, George Marquez with the forklift, outside the packing house; G-Lebanon State Forest; 27GT; 20-24, Bonnie Blair; 25-27, Mal O'Connor; 28-29, Maggie Holtzberg
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 217302-02 Orlando Torres and child; Halloween decorations; St. Anthony's Women's Club, New Jersey, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-217302-02
Digital content available: afc1991023_217302_02
Extent: 37 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
1-14, Orlando Torres and child; 15-26, Halloween decorations; 27-36, St. Anthony's Women's Club.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 217992-14 Route 206; Buena Market, Buena, New Jersey, November 19, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-217992-14
Digital content available: afc1991023_217992_14
Extent: 36 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
Auto junk sculpture north of G-Buena; 03GT; 1-3, Large robots at garage on route 206; 4,View of the garage and "yard"; 5-7, Large robots; 8-15, Small robots, heights from about 18" to about 24"; 16-19, Larry Torres, dog Susie, and stepmother Irene Torres, Buena Market, G-Buena; 03GT; Irene was sitting in the car crocheting red suits for Santa Claus dolls; 20-21, Larry Torres inthe back of his father's pickup truck; 22, Leon Torres; 23-25, Larry, Leon and Irene Torres loading the car of a regular customer, a Polish woman who would not give her name. They give her the split or spoiled vegetables for her horses; 26, Leon Torres; 27-28, Irene and Leon Torres, sorting sweet potatoes, which they buy from another farmer. they sort out the bad ones for cattle and for "deer bait "; 29, Sweet potatoes, crate, and baskets in the pickup truck; 30-32, Leon Torres sorting sweet potatoes; 33, Buena Market, Buena; 34-35, Unexpected Road, off of route 206, north of G-Hammonton; 11GT; 36-36a, Bonnie's foot.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 217992-23 Puerto Rican Civic Association, Hammonton, New Jersey, November 19, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-217992-23
Digital content available: afc1991023_217992_23
Extent: 36 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
1, Puerto Rican Civic Association Building G-Hammonton; 11GT and parking lot; 2-3, Same, seen from peach orchard across the street; 4-6, Peach stones on the ground in the orchard; 8-9, Peach orchard across the street from Puerto Rican Civic Association building; 10, Empty stands (used for selling food and such), parking lot of Puerto Rican Civic Association Building; 11-12, Puerto Rican Civic Association Building; 13-14, Home of Fernando Mele'ndez. Next door to Puerto Rican Civic Association; 15, Puerto Rican Civic Association, seen from across the street and in front of Fernando Mele'ndez' house; 16, Intersection of Old Forks Road and Third Avenue, showing vending stands in parking lot of PR Civic Assn; 17-22, Views of PRCA building and vending stands; 23-24, Fernando Melendez' house, seen from parking lot of PRCA.; 25-30, Views of PRCA building; 31-32, Views of PRCA vending stands; 33-35, Views of PRCA sign and coat of arms; 36, Bonnie's foot.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 217992-25 Nottingham Gun Club, New Gretna, New Jersey, November 18, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-217992-25
Digital content available: afc1991023_217992_25
Extent: 37 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
Nottingham Gun Club near G-New Gretna; 15GT; 1A-2A, Framed document on wall; 3A, Framed articles about gun club; 4A, Deer record; 5A-6A, Wall where they hand shirttails of members who shot at a deer and missed; 7A-8A, Bonnie Blair and George Heinrichs, the club's guide, in the bar of the club; 9A-11A, Dining room; 12A-14A, Living room; 15A-18A, Banner commemorating club's 50th anniversary; 19A-23A, Kitchen; 24A-25A, Quiet sign; 26A, Mal O'Connor photographing; 27A, George Heinrichs; 28A, Mal O'Connor; 29A, Banner as in 15A; 30A, Mal and George in bunkroom; 31A-36A, George in bunkroom.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 217992-32 Woods outing with hunters Roy Livinston and Chuck Folk; Visit to International Foods store in Pemberton, New Jersey; Scenes in Hammonton, New Jersey, and along Route 206, November 12, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-217992-32
Digital content available: afc1991023_217992_32
Extent: 33 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
1-3, View from deer stand, woods in G-Shamong; 22GT Twp. Photographer: Roy Livingston, (one of the hunters I was out with in the woods); 4, Bonnie Blair and Chuck Folk seen from the deer stand. Photographer: Roy Livingston; 5-8, Burned out woods, Shamong Twp.; 9-10, William and Myrna Dager and daughter. Rte 1, Box 119, South Pemberton Rd., G-Pemberton; 21GT, N.J. 08068. Taken inside their International Foods store in Pemberton; 11, Hispanic records for sale in the International Foods store; 12-13, Vegetables and canned gpods for Hispanic cooking, International Foods store; 14-15, Religious and botanical articles, International Food store; 16, Latin-type coffee, International Foods store; 17-19, (dark); 20-22, Yard and kiosk with carousel horses, route 206, near G-Hammonton; 11GT; 23-24, Farmworkers Association office, G-Hammonton; 11GT; 25-26, George Sciblo and Wayne Duffy (in the hat), bar across the street from Farmworkers Association, Hammonton.; 27-28, Farmstand, closed for the winter, near G-Hammonton; 11GT; 29-30, Telephone Company advertisement in Spanish, north of G-Hammonton; 11GT, on route 206. Says "Reach them with your love." (trans.); 31-32, Bumper sticker purchased at International Foods store in G-Pemberton; 21GT; 33-35, Warm Boot (variation 1); 36, Patchouli the Dog (Bonnie Blair's dog).
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 217992-35 Drive through Buena, New Jersey, October 20, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-217992-35
Digital content available: afc1991023_217992_35
Extent: 3 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
1-3, Old frame Hosue, with recent brick additions (apparently for commercial use)--now both abandoned; Rte. 54, G-Buena; 02GT.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 218779-01 Visit to Adelia Garcia; Preparations for Puerto Rican Civic Association Party; Saint Joseph's Parish Hall, Hammonton, New Jersey, November 12, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-218779-01
Digital content available: afc1991023_218779_01
Extent: 35 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
1-10, Visit to Adelio Garcia, G-Browns Mills; 21GT; 1(&1a), Adelio Garcia in his living room; 2-3, Adelio Garcia's living room; 4-5, Adelio Garcia in his living room; 6-10, Garcia's back yard, dog and one of many cats; 11-15, Preparations for Puerto Rican Civic Association party, St. Joseph's Parish Hall, 3rd St., G-Hammonton; 11GT, NJ; 11-15, L. to R.: Angelina Hernandez (candidate for Queen of Puerto Rican community of Hammonton), Elvin Rodriguez (president of Puerto Rican Civic Association), Tommy Santiago, Anna Reveron (candidate for Queen); 16-20, Set-up in hall; 21, Angelina Hernandez and Anna Reveron with Tom Santiago's dog; 22, The bar, being stocked; 23, Set-up in the hall; L to R: Elvin Rodriguez, Tommy Santiago, (?), Juan Angel Torres, (?). 24: Elvin Rodriguez (standing) conversing with Fernando Melendez; 25, Set-up; 26, Set-up; Fernando Mele'ndez, seated at table; Juan Angel Torres standing in foreground, with "Puerto Rico" hat; 27-28, Set-up; 29, Santiago's dog; Fernando Mele'ndez seated at table; 30, The bar; 31, Melendez, Torres, and Tommy Santiago; 32, Tom Santiago (father of Tommy), stocking the bar; 33, Set-up; Tommy Santiago, Mele'ndez, Torres; 34, Tom Santiago offers suggestions from the bar.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: 218779-02 Woods walk with hunters Roy Livingston and Chuck Folk, Shamong Township, New Jersey, November 12, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-BBB-218779-02
Digital content available: afc1991023_218779_02
Extent: 36 black-and-white film negatives (35mm)
1-36, Woods walk with hunters Roy Livingston and Chuck Folk, in G-Shamong; 22GT Twp.; 1-6, Burned over woods, along sand road; seen from Folk's truck; 7, Burned over woods; 8-9, Flooded area in the woods; 10, Livingston tests the footing while Folk waits behind with rifle; 11, Livingston and dogs crossing the water; Folk waits; 12, Livingston and dogs on the other side of the slough; 13, Livingston assessed the footing on the other side of the slough; Folk, on the near side, standing on a rock; 14, Livingston telling Folk that the ground is too wet to go on in the direction they had wanted to head; 15, Livingston and the dogs returning; Folk in foreground; 16, Roy Livingston, crossing back to dryer ground; 17, Chuck Folk's rifle; new growth on burned pine sapling, at ground level; 18-19, Roy Livingston (foreground) and Chuck Folk; 20-22, Deer tracks in the roadside sand; 23, New vegetation in a less severely burned area; 24-26, New growth at base of burned pines; 27-29, One of Livingston's deer stands; 30-31, Livingston climbing up to the deer stand; 32-36, Livingston up on the deer stand.
Field photography on color slide film
BOX-FOLDER 12/99 C log (color photo log)
Author: Bonnie Blair
Digital content available: afc1991023_12_099
Extent: 20 manuscript pages (8.5 x 14 inch or smaller)
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CBB-001 Birches Road Cranberry Farm, Birches Road, Vincentown, New Jersey, October 7, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CBB-001
Digital content available: afc1991023_cbb_001
Extent: 6 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
1, Roadside aster, by the pond just outside the gate of the farm; 2-3, The pond outside the gate; 4, Pickup trucks used to haul berries from the bog to the packing house; parked outside the garage shed at the end ofthe day's harvest. Truck in the foreground is just in, and is full of wet berries and leaves; 5, Closeup of rear of truck, showing water and berries; 6, The truckload of berries.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CBB-002 Cranberry harvesting, Birches Road Cranberry Farm, Birches Road, Vincentown, New Jersey; Haines and Haines, Chatsworth, New Jersey, October 13, 1983 to October 14, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CBB-002
Digital content available: afc1991023_cbb_002
Extent: 21 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
1-2, Sunrise; the pond outside the gate of the farm; 3, Sunrise; the house where Orlando and Hazel Torres live, on the farm; 4, Waste cranberries and the road to the dumping pile behind the packing house; 5-6, A new berry harvesting tractor ("knocker"} outside the packing house; 7, Flooded bog; berries downwind; 8, Two bogs; elevator being moved from far bog to bog in foreground; 9, Flooded bog. White stakes mark off deep water from passable parts of the bog; 10, Flooded bogs; machine sheds; berries downwind in bog in foreground; 11, Flooded bog; men operating hand-run knocking tractors; 12, Same; wider angle also includes trucks loading berries in bog in background; 13, Same - darker exposure; 14-15, Hand-operated knocking tractors in bog; farm house; 16, Closer view of hand-operated knocking tractors; 17, Waiting to pull the knocking machines out of the water; 18-19, Pulling the knocking machines out of the water; 20-21, The knocking machines, out of the water at the end of the day
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CBB-003 Paris Brothers Farm, Vineland, New Jersey, November 3, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CBB-003
Digital content available: afc1991023_cbb_c003
Extent: 17 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
1, Looking down the farmhouse driveway toward the fields; irrigation sprinklers; 2, Lettuce field being irrigated; 3, Lettuce; 4, Spinach; 5, Leeks; 6, Farm owner, harrowing old spinach field; 7, Turned-over spinach, after the harrow; 8, Field and farm equipment; 9-10, Truck; 11-12, Plows and harrows; 13-14, Irrigation and sprinkler parts; 15, Crates; 16, On-farm truck; 17, Hispanic farm worker, seasonal, declined to give his name, saying he only worked there, and only stayed a few months)
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CBB-004 Adelio Garcia; Gumercindo (Jimmy) Rivera, Browns Mills, New Jersey, November 6, 1983 to November 10, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CBB-004
Digital content available: afc1991023_cbb_004
Extent: 20 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
1, Home of Adelia Garcia and Selina Albes, on Whites Bog Rd; 2-4, Adelio Garcia in his back yard, with woodpiles; 5-7, The yard and woodpiles; 8, Garcia shows the oak planking from which the skids which he has in his woodpile are made; 9-11, Garcia splitting firewood; 12, The wood splitting block; 13, Jimmy Rivera's chickens, across the street from Garcia, in Rivera's neighbor's yard; 14, Rivera's chicken coop; 15, Rivera's backyard, with old car; 16, Closer view of the backyard car; 17-19, The back door--main entrance--and yard of Rivera's house, with cats and chickens; 20, Adelia Garcia, in his living room (11/10/83)
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CBB-005 Adelio Garcia; Gumercindo (Jimmy) Rivera, Browns Mills, New Jersey, November 6, 1983
Photographer: Bonnie Blair
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