Resource Type

[Outside of the Arts Warehouse]

Photograph of the Arts warehouse from the outside. There are five cars parked on the side of the road. The title "the Arts warehouse" is painted on the side of the building. There are two signs near the corner of the building directing towards the entrance.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Attendees at an Art Exhibition]

Photograph of people attending the art exhibition. There are three artworks hanging on the wall in the background. In the foreground, there is a middle-aged man, an older man and a middle-aged woman (from left to right). The older man and woman are facing the camera, but the other man is looking away.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Admiring Artworks]

Photograph of four people standing shoulder to shoulder in front of a large painting. They all have their arms around the person or people beside them. There are two other artworks in the shot, one on the wall and the other learning on the large painting in front of which the people are posing.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Admiring Artworks]

Photograph of two men in a room with many framed artworks hanging on the wall. They are standing in the corner of the room. One is looking at a painting and the other and looking towards the camera.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Carved Watermelons]

Photograph of two watermelons side by side. They both have words carved out of them. The words are all capitalized, raised and are made of the green rind. The rest of the watermelon was cut off and the red meat of the watermelon can be seen. The watermelon on the left reads "Mexicarte Greening" and the one on the right reads "The Austin Culture." The watermelon on the right has fruit and flowers behind and on it.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Organizing Día de los Muertos Mailers]

Photograph of six people in a room with four rows of papers on the floor, a box of more papers in the middle of the room and a few large piles of papers in the foreground on the floor. They are organizing the mailers into their own specific place.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two People in Costume and Sugar Skull Make Up]

Photograph of a man and woman in vintage-style clothing. The man is on the left and the woman on the right. She is wearing a black dress, a pearl necklace and a black head piece. He is wearing a grey suit, gold wallet chains, and a white hat. Both have their faces painted to look like sugar skulls. They are posing in front of a cemetery.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Artwork Hanging on a Wall]

Photograph of artworks hanging on a wall at the Mexic-Arte Museum. There are four full pieces in the picture and one on the far right that is cut off. The pieces all feature Hispanic females.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Girl Looking Up at Piñatas]

Photograph of a young girl in a short red shirt that shows her stomach and a blue skirt. She has her hands joined above her head and is stretching towards piñatas that are hanging up. She is standing up on her tip toes.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Goodie Di Raddo Making a Basket]

Photograph of Goodie Di Raddo making a basket at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is standing up, working on a basket she is holding near her waist. She is wearing glasses and a pioneer dress, with an apron and bonnet.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bill Clark Making a Shingle]

Photograph of Bill Clark making a shingle at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is straddling a work bench with the piece of wood in front of him. He is using a drawknife to shave the piece down to the proper shape. He is wearing overalls, sunglasses, and a straw cowboy hat.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Boy Participating in Watermelon Spitting Contest]

Photograph of a young boy competing in the watermelon spitting contest at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing at the edge of a tarp marked with numbers to denote distance. He is leaning forward, puckering his lips to spit a watermelon seed. A woman standing behind him is holding a broom. A crowd of spectators is gathered around closely.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jonas Perkins Working on a Sculptor]

Photograph of Jonas Perkins making a sculpture at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing to the right of his sculpture, wearing a brown cowboy hat, a blue button-up shirt and jeans. The sculpture is of a man in western wear, and is about three feet tall. It is a dark color and could be made of either wood or metal.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fashing Polecats Performing]

Photograph of the Fashing Polecats performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Couples of children are dancing in what appears to be gym outfits: shorts, t-shirts, striped knee-high socks, and tennis shoes. Aside from this the girls are wearing short, red aprons, and the boys are wearing sombreros.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fashing Polecats Dancing]

Photograph of the Fashing Polecats performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Couples of children are dancing in what appears to be gym outfits: shorts, t-shirts, striped knee-high socks, and tennis shoes. Aside from this the girls are wearing short, red aprons, and the boys are wearing sombreros. The focal point of the photograph is a smiling brown-haired boy, dancing with a girl with long brown hair and a small braid.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crim Gospel Singers Performing]

Photograph of the Crim Gospel Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three singers and a guitar player are visible on stage. The singer in the foreground is a woman wearing a navy dress with white polka-dots. To the right of her a man wearing jeans and a white shirt is singing and pointing upwards with his arm extended. To the right of him is another male singer. Behind the singers, the man playing guitar is also singing along. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the stage.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bayou City Attic Singers]

Photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Six women are lined up onstage behind microphones all wearing the same pink shirt and navy skirt except the woman on the very right who is wearing pink pants and a white shirt. This woman is holding a songbook and singing into a microphone. The woman to the left of her is also singing. The other women are not singing.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dancers with Expresiones Argentinas Performing]

Photograph of dancing couples of the group Expresiones Argentinas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The women are wearing peasant-style dresses with white blouses, fitted red vests, and skirts with aprons. The men are wearing white shirts, black vests, white pants tucked into their boots, and black brimmed hats with long ribbons tied around the band. The long ribbons are fluttering around as they dance. All the dancers are wearing black knee-high boots.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Female Vocalist and Drummer Performing with Expresiones Argentinas]

Photograph of a female vocalist and a drummer performing with Expresiones Argentinas at the Texas Folklife Festival. The woman is on the left, wearing a long orange skirt, a long-sleeved white blouse, and a scarf around her head and neck, topped with a gray bowler hat. She is leaning toward a microphone. On the right, a man wearing Argentine clothing is playing a large drum that is strapped over his shoulder.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Drummer for Cajun Playboys]

Photograph of the drummer for The Cajun Playboys performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is playing a white drum set and wearing a white shirt, dark pants, and a straw cowboy hat with a patch of animal fur at the front. He is wearing tinted, black-rimmed glasses and is smiling at the camera. A guitarist from the band is visible in the background; he is wearing the same outfit.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Preparing Food at Khmer Food Booth]

Photograph of women preparing food in the Khmer food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground a woman in an ethnic fuchsia skirt and yellow top is spooning something into a deep fryer. To her right is a woman wearing a yellow top and a red skirt. On the counter in front of them are two bunches of bananas and a dish of food covered in foil. Behind them, two other women stand watching.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ameleb Lebanese Dancer Performing]

Photograph of an Ameleb Lebanese Dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a silver belly dancing outfit, with a sheer blue skirt. She is dancing onstage alone with a few spectators visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Butch Struck Carving a Gourd]

Photograph of Butch Struck, from Oakland, Texas, carving a gourd at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a white shirt, a red bandana, and jeans as he sits straddling a wooden bench. One side of the bench has a raised platform which he is using as a work surface.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four of the Norman Sisters Performing]

Photograph of the Norman Sisters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four female singers are standing onstage holding microphones and looking at one another. The singer in the foreground is wearing a yellow blouse, yellow earrings, and a scarf around her waist. She is holding the microphone up to her mouth and has her eyes closed. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the area.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History