[Letter from Finnis E. Jolly to Thomas E. Huebner - August 22, 1979] (open access)

[Letter from Finnis E. Jolly to Thomas E. Huebner - August 22, 1979]

Letter from Finnis E. Jolly, area manager of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to Thomas E. Huebner, city manager of San Antonio. Jolly's letter is in response to some of Huebner's questions, as well as a reminder that funds given to the Barbara Jordan Community Center must be reimbursed because of its low priority; otherwise, Jolly will take the proper course of action.
Date: August 22, 1979
Creator: Jolly, Finnis E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Drew S. Days to OUED Members - August 29, 1979] (open access)

[Letter from Drew S. Days to OUED Members - August 29, 1979]

Letter from Drew S. Days III, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, to John H. Sanders, Mario Marcel Salas, and Rick Green of Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED). The letter is in reply to their allegation of fraud in the trial of Webb Boyd, whose murder was believed to have been racially motivated. Mr. Days assures them that correct action will be taken if their allegations are found to be true.
Date: August 29, 1979
Creator: Days, Drew S.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dr. Charles Hollingsworth Slicing Bread]

Photograph of Dr. Charles Hollingsworth, a bread baker, slicing a loaf of bread on a cutting board at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a plaid shirt, an apron, and an oven mitt on the hand that is holding the bread.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Visitor Eating Sausage on a Stick]

Photograph of an African-American girl eating sausage on a stick at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is looking at the camera as she takes her first bite of the sausage.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man Cooking Sausage in Alsatian Food Booth]

Photograph of a man cooking sausage in the Castroville Alsatian food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an apron and a trucker hat, he is standing next to a grill where long sausages are cooking.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Krakowiak Polish Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and woman are dancing together side-by-side with their arms around the other's lower back. Their opposite arms are raised in the air. The woman is wearing a knee-length floral skirt, a peasant shirt with an embroidered vest, and knee-high boots. The man is wearing dark pants, a light shirt, and an open embroidered vest.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[David Beck in Castroville Alsatian Food Booth]

Photograph of David Beck slicing sausage in Castroville Alsatian food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a Castroville trucker hat, a white shirt with a patterned vest, and an apron.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bob Goebel Serving Sausage on a Stick]

Photograph of Bob Goebel serving sausage on a stick in the German food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing lederhosen and an alpine hat, he is holding a sausage skewered with a roll.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Men Grilling Greek Souvlaki]

Photograph of two men grilling Greek souvlaki at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The booth is sponsored by St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church in San Antonio. The chicken kabobs are lined up side-by-side on the grill while the two men rotate them to ensure even cooking.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Visitors Trying to Solve Puzzles]

Photograph of festival visitors trying to solve Roland Denny's puzzles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A table is covered with groups of cubes about the size of alphabet blocks. Visitors are trying to arrange them in the correct way to reveal an image. Since the cubes have six sides, each group of cubes contains six possible puzzles.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Norwegian Trolls]

Photograph of a woman and boy dressed as Norwegian trolls at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are wearing long, grotesque noses and raggedy clothing. Their faces and arms are smeared with mud.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Girl Playing in Hay]

Photograph of a girl playing in a hay pile at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She has tossed a bunch of hay up in the air and is letting it fall on her head.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Virginia Munroe Holding a Basket She Made]

Photograph of Virginia Munroe holding a basket she made at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bonnet and a gingham dress, she is holding a woven basket about the size of a small suitcase.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Virginia Munroe Shaving Wood for a Basket]

Photograph of Virginia Munroe shaving wood to make a basket at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bonnet and a gingham dress, she is straddling a work bench, shaving a piece of wood with a drawknife.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[James Ander Caning a Chair]

Photograph of James Ander weaving caning for chair seats at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Using a wooden frame, he is weaving long, thin bamboo pieces to make a seat bottom that will be attached to a chair. Some festival visitors are watching from the other side of the table.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]

Photograph of two Krakowiak Polish Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two men have their arms locked together and are squatting down on one foot with the other foot pointed out in front of them. They are wearing dark pants, light shirts, and open vests. With their other hands, they are each holding a decorated stick.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Judith Sallee Blowing Whistle]

Photograph of Judith Sallee, from Trader's Village in Grand Prairie, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a t-shirt and jeans, she is straddling a wooden bench and blowing into a whistle made from elm bark.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Doug Geich with Whip]

Photograph of Doug Geich, from Trader's Village in Grand Prairie, holding a whip made from elm bark at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, and a polo shirt with stripes on the arm bands and shoulders.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bill Sallee Making Whistles]

Photograph of Bill Sallee, from Trader's Village in Grand Prairie, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a straw cowboy hat and big, black frame glasses, he is sitting at a table carving out a whistle from elm bark.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Evelyn Kasper Demonstrating Crochet]

Photograph of Evelyn Kasper demonstrating crochet in the Wendish booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, sunglasses, a shawl, and a long skirt as she wraps yarn around nails on a board to create a pattern.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crochet Demonstration]

Photograph of the Crochet demonstration by members of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two elderly women are sitting at a table demonstrating to four children how to crochet. The woman on the left has a little boy in her lap. The woman on the right is working so that three girls standing next to the table can see.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Italian Folk Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers are all children, mostly girls, wearing traditional clothing. The girls are wearing long skirts with aprons and the boys are wearing light-colored shirts and dark pants with cloth belts as they dance around the stage with their hands on their hips.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Claudia Ball with O. T. Baker at Smokehouse]

Photograph of festival director Claudia Ball with former director O. T. Baker at the Smokehouse at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Ball is on the left wearing a wide-brim hat and shirt patterned with an old packaging label for "hominy grits." Baker, on the right, is wearing a cowboy hat, big glasses and a button-up shirt.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio Performing]

Photograph of the Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A group of girls dressed in traditional folk dresses are dancing onstage. In the foreground, one girl is holding her skirt as she skips across the stage.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History