Photograph of a male accordionist performing with the Round Top Brass Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has a handlebar mustache and is smiling as he plays his black and white accordion. He is wearing a brown corduroy visor and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
Photograph of a male accordionist performing with the Round Top Brass Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has a mustache and is playing a black and white accordion. He is wearing a brown corduroy visor and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. A tuba player is visible behind him on the right.
Color photograph of a woman and a man, identified as Agnes and Ervin Comeaux, standing together at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a red blouse, a full, striped skirt and a white hat. She is holding a parasol over her shoulder. Next to her, Ervin is wearing a button-up shirt, a white fringed vest, and a red beret. They are members of the Golden Triangle Cajun Club.
Color photograph of Agnes Comeaux, a member of the Golden Triangle Cajun Club and a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in red and white attire, including a matching parasol, hat, and sunglasses.
Color photograph of a young man dressed in Alabama-Coushatta tribal embellishments. He is participating as a dancer representing the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas, performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a beaded headband, a beaded stole, and a beaded necklace. Secured by a tie at his chin, his headdress protrudes from behind him; it is made of feathers in various colors.
Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is in traditional dress: shirtless, with a red and black beaded necklace; a blue beaded sash; a light blue beaded headband; a brown, black, and white, feather mohawk; and a fan of blue, white, pink, and black, feathers on his back. Another Indian boy is to the left in a predominately green outfit.
Color photograph of a marching band of men playing the bagpipes at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are all dressed in traditional Scottish attire.
Photograph of the Alamo City Highlanders performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band members are standing in a circle, with the band leader in the center. Everyone is in Highland dress and playing a bagpipe. The band leader is wearing a traditional feather bonnet and holding a baton.
Color photograph of an elderly man wearing a cowboy hat and a patterned button-up shirt, identified as Alvin Sueltenfuss from Boerne, Texas. His hands are placed on a bulbous glass container filled with wine that he has made; a white tube that is embedded in the container's cap leads off the picture plane. His booth is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Color photograph of an elderly man wearing a cowboy hat and a patterned button-up shirt, identified as Alvin Sueltenfuss from Boerne, Texas. He is holding a corked glass bottle filled with wine. Several more bottles are on the table before him, as is a large jug of wine that has an embedded tube running from its cap. A man, who is also wearing a cowboy hat, stands to his right. This booth is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Photograph of Alvina Paul slicing dough to make Wendish noodles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, a shawl, and an apron as she cuts thin pieces of dough, adding them to a pile of noodles on the left.
Photograph of Alvina Paul holding a pile of Wendish noodles in the Wendish Heritage Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The noodles are thinly cut and have not yet been cooked. Alvina is wearing a white blouse with a red shawl and a red and white bonnet.
Photograph of Alvina Paul showing how to make noodles in the Wendish Heritage Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. With a rolling pin, she is rolling out the dough from which she will cut the noodles. She is wearing a red bonnet, glasses, a white blouse, and a white apron. Two women are watching her from the other side of the table.
Photograph of Alvina Paul slicing dough to make Wendish noodles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, a shawl, and an apron as she cuts thin pieces of dough, adding them to a pile of noodles on the left.
Photograph of an Ameleb Lebanese dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She has curly brown hair and is wearing a cream-colored belly-dancing outfit, decorated with gold coins. Two other dancers are visible in the background.
Color photograph of five women who are part of the Ameleb Lebanese Dancers, performers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are all wearing black bra tops trimmed in gold with sheer bedleh-style pants. They are caught mid-dance, each with one of their arms in the air. A crowd of onlookers sit on a grassy hill next to the dancefloor.
Color photograph of a group of women who are part of the Ameleb Lebanese Dancers, performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are all wearing the traditional Lebanese dancing costume: a bra top and bedleh-style pants. They are dancing in a circle with their arms open and extended horizontally. A crowd of onlookers sit on a grassy hill next to the dance floor.
Photograph of Andy Owens, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Crouched down beside his work surface, he is carving one of the F holes out of a violin. He has curly brown hair and a medium-length beard.
Photograph of Andy Owens, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, Texas, making an instrument at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The open body of the instrument is being held by a vice while he works on the inside of it. Owens, wearing a plaid shirt, has shaggy brown hair and a dense beard.
Color photograph of a group of four people surveying the array of apple dolls on the cloth-covered table before them. The display of dolls belongs to a participant of the 7th Annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Color photograph of two young boys engaging in an arm wrestling contest over a white table with the shape of the Texas state painted at its center. A couple of children are standing around the table to watch. They are visitors of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Color photograph of an elderly woman in traditional Polish attire, sitting at the Polish food booth at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is spreading an unidentifiable condiment onto a slice of bread.
Photograph of two pipers of the Alamo City Highlanders performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing traditional Highland dress, they are playing the bagpipes next to other band members.
Color photograph of a man operating an oven outdoors at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Within the oven are three coffee cans filled with baking bread dough. The man is wearing a red gingham shirt, a chef's hat, and an apron.
Color photograph of man playing the banjo in a band called Tennessee Valley Authority at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. To his immediate left, a man is playing the upright bass. To that man's left is another man playing the acoustic guitar. Each musician has a microphone pointed at their instrument.
Photograph of the banjo player for the Bluegrass Kinfolks performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a white cowboy hat and a green patterned shirt, playing his banjo into a microphone.
Photograph of Basil Garcia giving a blacksmithing demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is in the foreground, wearing a blue and navy striped shirt, a straw cowboy hat, and jeans, standing next to a forge with a large open flame. An anvil and mallet are visible in the middle ground. Directly behind it, a group of five children and three adults are watching the demonstration.
Color photograph of a pair of bass box players for a band called The Hoboes, a group performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The bass boxes feature holes at their front and broomsticks that protrude from their tops.
Photograph of the stand-up bassist for the Backwoods Volunteers Bluegrass Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a white shirt with blue trim and jeans. She has light brown curly hair and is singing into a microphone as she plays.
Color photograph of a man driving a golf-cart with a tan and white dog seated next to him. The man is identified as Buddy Pfeiffer an employee of the Institute of Texan Cultures; the dog is known as Berm Dog, the institute's mascot. They are touring the festival grounds, which is visibly rife with festival goers in the background.
Color photograph of a young boy sliding on a grassy berm at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival; he is using a flattened cardboard box as his vehicle. He is wearing a striped shirt, denim shorts, knee-high socks, and tennis shoes. Behind him is another boy.
Color photograph of a man named Bill Burns playing the fiddle in a band known as The Bluegrass Kinfolks at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat and eyeglasses. A microphone on a microphone stand has been set before him to pick up the sound of his fiddle. A man playing the Dobro guitar is partially visible behind him to his left.
Photograph of Texas House Speaker Bill Clayton with ITC exhibit floor manager, Pat Thatcher, at the Texas Folklife Festival opening ceremony. Clayton is on the right, standing next to a few other men. Thatcher is standing just to the left of him, wearing a dress from the early 20th century and a wide-brimmed hat decorated with flowers.
Photograph of Texas House Speaker, Bill Clayton, cutting a red and yellow ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has short gray hair and is wearing a white shirt with a tie. Standing next to him on the left is a woman wearing a white Kentucky Derby-style dress and hat. She is waving with her hand up in the air. Standing to the right of Clayton is a tall man with a dark beard wearing an off-white shirt and beige pants. The Institute of Texan Cultures building is visible in the background.
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.
Photograph of a white chicken with black speckles flying out of a mailbox as part of the chicken flying contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The mailbox is white and has a red chicken painted on it.
Photograph of a brown-haired man giving a blacksmithing demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is in the foreground, wearing a white t-shirt and jeans, as he hammers a hot piece of metal on an anvil. A forge with an open flame is visible in the right middle ground.
Photograph of Bob Goebel serving German Sausage on a stick in the Wursfest food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a striped shirt, brown lederhosen and a purple alpine hat, he is holding up a sausage and a roll, skewered together on a stick.
Photograph of Bob Goebel serving German Sausage on a stick in the Wursfest food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a striped shirt, brown lederhosen and a purple alpine hat, he is holding up a sausage and a roll, skewered together 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.
Color photograph of two men, Dick Potter and Jack F. "Spot" Baird, checking whether a possum is done after boiling it in a large pot. They are holding the boiled carcass up with a stick that is attached to a stethoscope. A crowd has gathered around to watch this spectacle at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Photograph of a young blonde boy at the sugar cane mill at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has inserted a cane of sugar into the grinding mechanism which is powered by a horse walking around in a circle.
Photograph of a red-haired boy holding a horseshoe in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is holding it up toward the camera so that his face is showing through it.
Photograph of two men teaching a boy about muzzleloaders in "Muzzleloading School" at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy is sitting in between the two men, who are dressed in Civil War era clothing and are showing him the muzzle of a rifle that is laid across their laps. They are all sitting on a stack of wooden shingles, in front of a log cabin.
Photograph of a boy trying out shingle splitting at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is holding a large mallet with both hands, hammering down on a stump of wood. A few other children and a couple of adults are watching him.
Photograph of a boy learning to whittle at whittling school at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has brown hair and is wearing a small straw hat and a green and white tank top. He is holding a small piece of wood, carving it with a small knife.
Photograph of a boy looking at two chickens in the Alamo Poultry Club exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a striped polo shirt and shorts, the dark-haired boy is standing on the left, looking at a cage on the right containing two chickens. He has a big smile on his face.
Photograph of a young boy standing next to a light-colored dairy cow at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The blonde boy is on the right, smiling, and wearing a white and navy t-shirt, and red gym shorts. The cow is wearing a bell and a rope halter.
Photograph of a blindfolded boy pushing another boy in a wheel barrow in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy riding is directing the blindfolded boy to push the wheelbarrow through a wooden arch. A young man is standing next to them to provide additional assistance.
Photograph of bread bakers making "Depression Bread" baked in coffee cans at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two bakers behind the booth are slicing the tall cylindrical loaves for customers to sample.
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