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Texas Cultures Online
3,153
Institute of Texan Cultures Texas Folklife Festival Collection
3,077
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
443
San Antonio Register
231
Cechoslovak and Westke Noviny
91
El Regidor
34
Hallettsville Rebel
27
Il Messaggiero Italiano
27
Obzor
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San Antonio Fair, Inc. Records
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19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival
333
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262
7th Annual Texas Folklife Festival
259
4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival
242
20th Annual Texas Folklife Festival
231
5th Annual Texas Folklife Festival
231
San Antonio Register
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21st Annual Texas Folklife Festival
198
6th Annual Texas Folklife Festival
197
23rd Annual Texas Folklife Festival
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[Larry Dawson, Sculptor]
Black and white photograph of Larry Dawson, a sculptor participating in the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is demonstrating the sculpting process and posing for a picture with one of his unfinished creations. He has a pipe in his mouth.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Muzzle Loading Instruction by the San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association]
Black and white photograph of a young boy pointing a rifle at an unseen target with his eye closed. Two adults from the San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association, the sponsors of the activity, are supervising the boy. This activity is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Kids Arm Wrestling Each Other]
Black and white photograph of children gathered around a small table to challenge each other in arm wrestling at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. A pair of them are competing while the rest watch them; the boy on the right is winning.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Coon Oil Cookies]
Black and white photograph of a woman named Eliese Deike at the "Cooking with Coon Oil" booth at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is holding up a bowl of cookies she has made using coon oil. The cookies are small and coin-sized.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cleo Taylor at the Hominy Booth]
Black and white photograph of a woman named Cleo Taylor, standing behind a table at the booth dedicated to hominy at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. On the table before her is a pot full of hominy and a closed jar also full of hominy.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Daisy Potter Eating an Eggroll]
Color photograph of a woman named Daisy Potter, also known as the Possum Queen. She is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is laughing while holding an egg roll in a napkin, just before she eats it.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Man Eating German Sausage on a Stick]
Black and white photograph of a long-haired young man taking a bite of sausage on a stick from the German food booth at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a shirt with the words "Kiss Me I'm Polish" on the front. A woman standing to the right watches him eat.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman Weaving on a Loom with a Child in Her Lap]
Black and white photograph of a woman seated at a loom with a child in her lap. The loom is located in the Austin Weavers Co-op Booth at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is demonstrating to the child how to use the loom, which has numerous strands of thread in it.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman Making Lye Soap]
Black and white photograph of a group of women gathered around a boiling cauldron of lye at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Doris Riedel, the woman leaning over the pot, is making lye soap. One of the other women is stirring the contents of the pot with a large spatula.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Drop Spinning]
Black and white photograph of a couple of teenage girls at the 7th Annual Texas Folklife Festival using drop spindles to spin fiber into yarn. The girl on the left is elevated on a small stool upon which she is standing. Between the girls is a chair.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Former Texas Governor John B. Connally at the Opening Ceremony]
Color photograph of a man, identified as former Texas governor John B. Connally, standing behind a wooden podium at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival's opening ceremony. On the front of the podium is a sign that reads, "Institute of Texas Cultures, University of Texas at San Antonio." A few people are seated in fold-up chairs behind him.
Date:
August 3, 1978
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cambodian Folk Dance]
Color photograph of a line of women moving across a stage while performing a traditional Cambodian dance at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are wearing matching costumes, which consist of a white blouse, an embroidered white skirt, a green apron at the waist and a green sash on the shoulder. In their hands are two halves of a coconut shell, which are struck together while dancing. A crowd of onlookers are seated on a grassy hill adjacent to the stage.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A Cajun Band]
Color photograph of a group of men performing Cajun music on a small, tent-covered stage at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The band includes a lead vocalist, two guitar players, a fiddler, a drummer and a lap steel guitar player.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Czech Singers]
Color photograph of a group of women and men performing as Czech singers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. On the left, four men are grouped together around two microphones. On their right is a long line of women gathered around three visible microphones. All the singers are holding up sheet music binders. One woman sits at an electric organ. They are all dressed in traditional Czech attire.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bayou City Attic Singers]
Color photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers comprised of three singers and a pianist, performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The singers are all female; one of them is much younger. They each have their own microphone. Various audio equipment lines the edge of the elevated stage where they are performing. The pianist is an older male, who also has a microphone in front of him. He is seated behind an upright wooden piano.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Peanut Grinding]
Color photograph of a young girl and an elderly man named Grady Higdon, scooping peanuts into a peanut grinder at the Frio County Peanut Specialties Booth, one of many booths at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. A glass container filled with harvested peanut plants sits on the table where they work.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mexican Folk Dancer]s
Color photograph of a group of women lined up on a stage, performing a Mexican folk dance in traditional Mexican dancing costumes, which are colorful, voluminous dresses trimmed in lace. They are performers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Elderly Woman Playing Bocce]
Color photograph of an elderly woman named Marie Fleming playing bocce ball near a chain link fence at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in a folk costume of an identifiable origin. Two men stand behind her, watching her throw the ball.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Log Cabin Construction]
Color photograph of two women constructing a log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The woman on the left strips bark off a narrow wood log, the woman on the right holds it in place for her. Several more wood logs are scattered on the ground nearby.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Former Texas Governor John B. Connally at the Opening Ceremony
Color photograph of a man, identified as former Texas governor John B. Connally, standing behind a wooden podium at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival's opening ceremony. On the front of the podium is a sign that reads, "Institute of Texas Cultures, University of Texas at San Antonio." A few people are seated in fold-up chairs behind him.
Date:
August 3, 1978
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Log Cabin Construction]
Color photograph of a woman participating in the live demonstration of the construction of a log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is stripping the bark off a long piece of raw wood that lays perpendicular to other pieces of wood on the ground.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Log Cabin Construction]
Color photograph of two young boys seated at the corner of an unfinished log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. While the boy on the left watches, the boy on the right is stripping the bark off the topmost log using a carving tool.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Neal Wright Constructing a Chimney]
Color photograph of Neal Wright demonstrating the construction of a brick chimney at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. It is unfinished; he is patting material onto the outside of the chimney shaft.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Man Stretching Hides]
Color photograph of a man identified as Max "Trapper Max" Deike, seated amongst bales of hay at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is stretching hides using wooden boards and a metal tool. A few hides hang behind him.
Date:
[1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator:
Smith, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History