Photograph of a Teresa Champion, artistic director of Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio, performing with other flamenco dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival. The photograph is taken from the side of the stage and features Champion in the foreground, twirling around with her arms in the air. Behind her, another female dancer is visible. To the right, a row of dancers are stomping and clapping. All of the dancers are wearing traditional flamenco costumes. In the left background, audience members are visible sitting on the other side of the stage.

Photograph of visitors waiting in line in front of the "Soul Food" booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth is painted orange, lined with pennant flags, and labeled with an overhead sign reading, "Soul Food". In the right foreground, the bed of a red pickup truck is visible.

Photograph of the "Galveston Beach" area, sponsored by the Galveston Shrimp Festival, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Miss Galveston, dressed as a mermaid, is sitting beside two boys playing in the sand in the area for sand castle building. She is wearing a green mermaid costume, a sash denoting her title, and a tiara, sitting on a pile of old fish nets. The whole area is covered with sand, and there are shovels and pails around where the two boys are playing. Behind them, a few festival visitors survey the area. A woman with two small children has a big smile on her face. In the foreground, a small fence made of fishing net sections off the area. Attached to it a sign reads, "Shrimp Festival, Sand Castle Building".

Photograph of a blacksmith demonstrating how to put on a horseshoe at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing at the rear of a white horse, facing the opposite direction. He has the horse's back right foot turned bottom up and held steady over his lap. He is bending over, hammering in the nails that attach the shoe to the horse's hoof. Spectators have gathered around to watch.

Photograph of a blacksmith demonstrating how to file a horse's hoof at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing at the rear of a white horse, facing the opposite direction. He has the horse's back right foot turned bottom up and held steady on a short, metal stand. He is bending over, scraping the bottom of the horse's hoof with a large file. Several spectators are gathered around to watch.

Photograph of the syrup cooking demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival. The syrup is cooked in a large trough, over a stone furnace fueled with wood. At one end is a small chimney where smoke from the furnace is released. The whole thing has similar dimensions to a twin size bed, the small chimney being equivalent to a headboard. In the center of the photograph, a man is bending over to put more wood in the furnace, inside of which, flames are visible. To the right of him, two men stand next to the syrup cooker, watching him add wood to the furnace. The structure built over the cooker contains a sign reading, "Jerry Young, Syrup Cooking, Devine". In the right foreground, a large pile of wood is visible. On the left side of the photograph, festival visitors are gathered to watch the demonstration.

Photograph of Dr. Horace Allison, from Carthage, playing his 27 foot long cedar horn onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. The stage, which is a long flatbed trailer, contains a piano and bench at the right end. Allison is sitting on the bench, facing away from the piano and playing his cypress horn, which stretches across the entire length of the stage. Two horns lay on the stage not being played. One of them is almost as long as the 27 foot horn. The other sits at Allison's feet and is about three feet long. A sign on the stage denotes it as stage 4. In the foreground, festival visitors sit on the grass, facing the stage. On the far side of the stage, many more festival visitors are standing and watching the performance. In the background, other festival booths and tents are visible.

Photograph of Richard Bolt, chuckwagon cook for the 6666 ranch, talking to another cowboy in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. Bolt is wearing black-rimmed glasses, a light blue shirt, a black bandana tied around his neck, jeans and a cowboy hat. He is standing at a counter next to another cowboy, leaning over and around to face him. His hands are clasped at his chest.

Photograph of a man putting a horseshoe on a horse at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is bending over, facing away from the horse with the horses leg pulled up on his lap. He is putting a nail into the horseshoe which he will then hammer in. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and brown leather chaps.

Photograph of a cowboy advertising free cowboy kisses in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is on top of the bar where beer is being served, squatting down and beckoning someone with his hand. Beside him, are two festival workers, a woman serving beer to a festival visitor and another man serving beer. The two of them are paying attention to what the cowboy is doing. The bar is under a tent decorated with pennant flags advertising Lone Star Beer.

Photograph of Tom Perini, from Buffalo Gap, with a female festival visitor in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is dressed as a cowboy, wearing a beige cowboy hat, red bandana, blue shirt, jeans, and boots with spurs. He is standing with one foot on the booth counter in front of him, leaning over toward the female festival visitor. He is holding a sourdough biscuit.

Photograph of Tom Perini, from Buffalo Gap, giving a female festival visitor a free cowboy kiss offered in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is dressed as a cowboy, wearing a beige cowboy hat, red bandana, blue shirt, and jeans. He has one arm around the woman, while he holds a sourdough biscuit in the other. People watching in the background are smiling, amused by the scene.

Photograph of the hand crank telephone exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival. The exhibit, sponsored by the Aspermont Board of Education, is located on the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures. There are three phones mounted on the wall. In the foreground, a woman is standing at one of them, putting the receiver up to her ear. In the middle ground, a young boy wearing a cowboy hat is at another phone, standing on a stool so he can reach it. He is holding the receiver to his ear and pretending to have a conversation. A man in a red shirt stands at the last phone, also pretending to have a conversation. Two other festival visitors are standing to the right, waiting to look at the phones.

Photograph of a man putting a horseshoe on a horse at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is bending over, facing away from the camera, with the horse's leg pulled up on his lap. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and brown leather chaps. The white horse seems calm as the man works.

Photograph of a man putting a horseshoe on a horse at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is bending over, facing away from the horse with the horses leg pulled up on his lap. He is hammering a nail into the horseshoe to fasten it on. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and brown leather chaps.

Photograph of J. W. Broom and Jethro Holmes watering a pair of oxen used to pull an eight-wheel log wagon at the Texas Folklife Festival. Both of them are representatives of the Woodville Dogwood Festival. Broom is standing on the left in front of the oxen, holding a rope that is tied to one ox's halter. This ox is drinking from a metal bucket full of water beneath a water spout. Holmes stands on the other side of the oxen.