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[The Devine Music Makers Performance]
Slide of the Devine Music Makers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. Mrs. Claude Miller is singing with four band members who are playing various stringed instruments.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fiddlers at the Czech Booth]
Slide of musicians representing the State Championship Fiddlers Frolics in Hallettsville at a stage by the Czech booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. There is one fiddler and two guitarists performing.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tennessee Valley Authority Band Performance]
Slide of the Tennessee Valley Authority Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are from San Antonio and directed by Hank Harrison (left). There are four total members, three in the foreground and one in the background. The three members in the foreground are all singing into the same microphone. There is another microphone that is placed lower down to catch the sound of their instruments, which includes a banjo, guitar and violin.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Walker-Ford Singers Performing]
Slide of the Walker-Ford Singers of San Antonio, Texas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There is a female soloist standing at a microphone in the foreground in front of the rest of the choir (women in the front and men in the back). The director is Oscar Ford who is not in the image.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[New Braunfels Wurstfest Performance]
Slide of Ed Kadlecek (right) playing the accordion and other musicians, including three children, representing the New Braunfels Wurstfest at the Texas Folklife Festival. Next to Kadlecek is a young girl standing on a chair so she is tall enough to share a microphone with him. On the left is another young girl and boy singing into the same microphone. Behind them is a man who is also singing along.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Reverend John J. Socha Performing in Wendish]
Slide of Reverend John J. Socha performing on stage at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is singing religious songs in Wendish.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Instrument Maker's Display]
Slide of Bruce Roark is sitting down in his booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Roark is a musical instrument maker from Devine, Texas. He is holding a musical instrument and has various stringed instruments hanging up on the wall behind him.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Hoboes Band Performance]
Slide of the Hoboes Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are five members of the band, four men and one woman.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Povery Playboys Performance]
Slide of the Poverty Playboys, from Kerrville, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are five members of the band and all are playing various stringed instruments, including the guitar. They are also dressed in a "hobo" fashion.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Woodrome Family Singers and Gospel Band Performance]
Slide of the Woodrome Family Singers and Gospel Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are four people each singing into their own microphone while pianist and other instrumentalists sit in the background playing the music.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Opening Ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival]
Slide of the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival. Allen Thibodeaux and his French Ramblers Band playing in front of the entrance to the Institute of Texan Cultures. There are huge bunches of balloons in the background.
Date:
September 12, 1974
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[East Texas String Ensemble Performance]
Slide of the East Texas String Ensemble from Nacadoches, Texas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are four men in the ensemble, three of which are wearing cowboy hats. There are two members in the foreground sharing a microphone. The third member to the left has his own microphone and the fourth doesn't have one at all. There are people around the ensemble listening to their music. Left to right: Tom Noll, "Ab" Abernethy, Stan Alexander, Charles Gardner.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Performance by the Walker-Ford Singers]
Slide of the Walker-Ford Singers, from San Antonio, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival. They were directed by Oscar Ford who is standing on the right with his back turned. There is a male soloist at the microphone performing and a choir behind him. The choir is clapping as they sing.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bunny Brass Band Performance]
Slide of M.C. Robert Thonhoff dancing with the bunny mascot at the Texas Folklife Festival. The mascot is a part of the Bunny Brass Band who is playing in the background on the right. The band members are all dressed as rabbits and one is standing in front of the band directing. The rest of the band is facing Thonhoff and the bunny mascot playing brass instruments, such as the French horn and trumpet.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Scottish and Irish Bagpipers and Drummers Performing]
Slide of Scottish and Irish bagpipers and drummers performing with a large crowd surrounding them at the Texas Folklife Festival. This shot is focuses on a man in a plaid kilt playing a snare drum behind his fellow members in the performance. A bass drummer is in front of him, another snare drummer to his right and bagpipers to his left. In the background, there is a log cabin and a crowd of people watching the number.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Singing Harris Family of Lufkin]
Slide of The Singing Harris Family of Lufkin, directed by Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Harris, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the photograph, the family band is performing on a raised stage. The two daughters and their mother are wearing matching plaid dresses, while the father and son wear navy shirts and jeans.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Two Members of the East Texas String Ensemble Performing]
Slide of the Tom Nall (left) and Francis Abernethy of East Texas String Ensemble from Nacadoches, Texas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are sharing a microphone and singing. Abernethy is wearing a cowboy hat and playing bass while Nall is playing banjo.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[French Ramblers Band Performance]
Slide of the opening ceremony the Texas Folklife Festival. W. T. Oliver (right) and Allen Thibodeaux and his French Ramblers Band playing at the Institute of Texan Cultures.
Date:
September 12, 1974
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Bob Thompson to Mickey McLernon, November 12, 1943]
Letter from Bob Thompson to Mickey McLernan discussing photographs he wants to send her, recent travels, and wishing her a happy birthday.
Date:
November 12, 1943
Creator:
Thompson, Bob
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[San Antonio Jewish Community Center Choir Performance]
Slide of the San Antonio Jewish Community Center Choir performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are children in the first row and mostly women in the rest of the choir, there are a few men in the very back. The choir members are clapping their hands with the beat.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[People Watching The Hoboes Band Performing]
Slide of people dancing to the music the Hoboes Band from Lavaca County, Texas is playing. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Boerne Village Band Performance]
Slide of The Boerne Village Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival on stage. The band consists of four members playing a tuba, saxophones and clarinets. There are people around the stage listening to the music.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Los Flamencos de San Antonio Performance]
Slide of Ricardo Castellano (foreground left) and Teresa Champion (foreground right) are performing Fandangos de Huelva at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are a part of Los Flamencos de San Antonio. The pair are in a flamboyant dancing costumes and have their wrists crossed in front of their body as a part of a dance move in their choreography. There are guitarists in the background playing the music to which Castellano and Champion are dancing.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Los Flamencos de San Antonio Performing Fandangos de Huelva]
Slide of Ricardo Castellano (foreground left) and Teresa Champion (foreground right) are performing Fandangos de Huelva at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are a part of Los Flamencos de San Antonio. Castellano and Champion are facing the same direction, Castellano behind her, and they both have their right hands extended as a part of a dance move in their choreography. There are also other dancers performing with them and guitarists in the background playing the music to which they are dancing.
Date:
[1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History