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[Calvary Boys Gospel Singers]

Photograph of the Calvary Boys Gospel Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four men, all dressed alike in khaki pants, white shirts, and red ties, are performing onstage. All of them are holding microphones and singing except the second man from the right who is playing a red bass guitar and singing into a microphone held by a stand. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the stage.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Chapter documentation requested by the national office of The Links, Inc.] (open access)

[Chapter documentation requested by the national office of The Links, Inc.]

List of chapter documents and information requested by the national office of The Links, Inc. Chapters must submit a list of their officers and veteran members, membership rosters, and statistical reports.
Date: 1985-08~
Creator: Links, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Child Swinging Stick at Piñata]

Photograph of a piñata party at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the center, a child is trying to hit a piñata with a stick while blindfolded. The child is swinging the stick with all their might. The piñata is purple, and made to look like a bear. Other children are standing around, watching. Two women are in the background, smiling and cheering.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Chilean Folklorico Group of Houston Performing]

Photograph of the Chilean Folklorico Group of Houston performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Five male dancers are visible lined up side-by-side dancing with a rope or whip held up over their heads. They are wearing wide-brimmed hats, horizontal-striped panchos, dark pants, and over-the-knee boots with long fringes on the sides. Other dancers and musicians are visible onstage behind them.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction of Mexican Food Booth]

Photograph of the Mexican Food Booth being constructed at the Texas Folklife Festival. It has been made to look like Mission Concepcion. A man and a woman are standing on a ladder, hanging up a sign on the front of the booth. Many paper flowers have been hung on the facade for decoration. Two children and a man are standing on the ground watching the two on the ladder. Another sign on the front of the booth reads, "Concepcion Mission Founded in 1731."
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Country Cloggers and Buck Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Country Cloggers and Buck Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Girls in short skirts and suspenders are dancing and clapping. They are all wearing star-spangled neck ties. Two girls near the center are dancing around each other making a lassoing gesture while the others are lined up at the back of the dancefloor clapping.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground, a couple is dancing. The woman is on the right, wearing a knee-length blue skirt with a thick red petticoat. Her blouse has a red bandana pattern. The man is on the left wearing a red shirt with the same bandana pattern and jeans. In the background other couples from the group are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Couple from Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground, a couple is dancing. The woman is on the right, wearing a knee-length blue skirt with a thick red petticoat. Her blouse has a red bandana pattern. The man is on the left wearing a red shirt with the same bandana pattern and jeans. Their right hands are joined and they are kicking back their right foot. In the background other couples from the group are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing]

Photograph of dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. One couple is dancing together at center stage while the other three couples are gathered around them in a semi-circle. The women are wearing tea-length skirts and most of the men are wearing dark pants except for one who is wearing a kilt.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dorceal Duckens Performing with the Duckens Family]

Photograph of Dorceal Duckens performing with the Duckens Family Singers at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a white and brown African-inspired shirt, as he grips the microphone with one hand and waves to the crowd with the other. He has a goatee and is smiling. Behind him, other members of the group are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Doris Riedel Making Soap]

Photograph of Doris Riedel making lye soap at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a maroon pioneer dress and a blue apron, and sitting in a chair to the right of a cauldron hanging from a tripod over a coal fire. She is stirring the cauldron with a large wooden stick. A large pile of wood is behind her in the middle ground of the photograph. In the background, crowds of festival visitors are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Duckens Family Singers Performing]

Photograph of several women of the Duckens Family Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Approximately seven female singers are gathered in groups around three microphones. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the area. In the right background, two male members of the group are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dutch Food Booth]

Photograph of the Dutch food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth is made to look like a Dutch-style building. It has three serving windows, inside of which booth workers in costume are visible. Lettering across the top of the booth reads, "Dutch Culture" and "Nederland, Texas." Hanging above a serving window, a sign reads, "White milk, chocolate milk, 3 coupons." Three festival visitors are visible in front of the booth.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Executive Council Extends Deadline for Late Payment on Housing Assessment (open access)

Executive Council Extends Deadline for Late Payment on Housing Assessment

This excerpt from the January 1986 President's Newsletter outlines the procedures that delinquent members of The Links, Inc. must follow to have their membership reinstated.
Date: 1985~
Creator: Links, Inc.
Object Type: Text
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
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Female Reenactors in Costume Doing Laundry]

Photograph of USAA volunteers portraying fort laundresses at the Texas Folklife Festival. The two women are dressed in pioneer clothing, kneeling down at a silver wash bucket pretending to do laundry. The woman on the left is wearing a blue dress with red-checkered trim and a red-checkered apron. The woman on the right is wearing a gray blouse and white skirt. Both of their bonnets are not being worn but instead tied around their necks. They are part of a larger scene of reenactors, some of whom are visible in the background. Behind them on the right is a porch of an old house. Some people are standing on the porch at a table covered in a red checkered tablecloth. Behind the women on the left, more reenactors and festival visitors are standing around, and a woman on a horse is visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Flemish Folk Dancers Peforming]

Photograph of Flemish folk dancers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are divided into four groups of four, each group consisting of two girls and two boys. Each group is dancing around in a counterclockwise circle, their left hands joined in the middle. The girls are wearing long dresses, aprons and bonnets. The boys are wearing cropped pants that stop just under the knee, white knee-high socks, and white shirts.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Form letter sent to prospective donors to the San Antonio chapter of Links, Inc.] (open access)

[Form letter sent to prospective donors to the San Antonio chapter of Links, Inc.]

Form letter by Margaret Winn sent to prospective donors to the San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc. inviting them to contribute to the chapter's 25th anniversary celebrations by donating to their Silver Anniversary Booklet Project. These souvenir booklets will be given as gifts to friends and supporters.
Date: September 21, 1985
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Form letter sent to prospective donors to the San Antonio chapter of Links, Inc.] (open access)

[Form letter sent to prospective donors to the San Antonio chapter of Links, Inc.]

Form letter by Margaret Winn sent to prospective donors to the San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc. Winn is soliciting advertisements for a souvenir books that the chapter is publishing to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Donors are also invited to make a general contribution to the chapter.
Date: 1985
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History