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[Bill Clark Making Shingles]

Description: Photograph of Bill Clark making shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is straddling a wooden work bench shaving a flat piece of wood with a drawknife. He is wearing glasses, a straw cowboy hat, a brown shirt, and overalls.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Blacksmith Shaping Metal]

Description: Photograph of blacksmith Al Morgan shaping a piece of metal at the Texas Folklife Festival. Using a hammer and chisel, he is working on a piece of metal atop an anvil. Several tools are visible on the work surface in front of him. A man is standing on the left, looking over his shoulder. The forge is visible a few feet behind Morgan.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bob and Sylvester Duckens of the Duckens Family Singers]

Description: Photograph of Bob Duckens and Sylvester Duckens Jr. at the Texas Folklife Festival. Standing behind a microphone, Bob is on the left and Sylvester is on the right. Bob is wearing a blue shirt and navy pants, Sylvester is wearing a blue "Dodgers" baseball shirt and khaki pants. A canopy of greenery is hanging overhead.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy Riding on Plane Swing]

Description: Photograph of a boy on a tree swing in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. The wooden swing has been made to look like an airplane. The boy is in full swing, holding on to the handles built into the plane. The tree trunk is visible on the right. Behind the boy swinging, another boy stands and watches.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy Swinging Stick at Piñata]

Description: Photograph of a piñata party at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the center, a small boy is trying to hit a piñata with a stick while blindfolded. The piñata is purple, and made to look like a bear. Other children are standing around, watching the boy try to hit the piñata. A woman on the left is cautiously watching the boy, leaning back slightly to avoid the swinging stick.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Butch Struck Carving a Gourd]

Description: Photograph of Butch Struck, from Oakland, Texas, carving a gourd at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a white shirt, a red bandana, and jeans as he sits straddling a wooden bench. One side of the bench has a raised platform which he is using as a work surface.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cadence Cloggers Dancing In-Line]

Description: Photograph of the Cadence Cloggers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Men and women in costume are lined up on the dance floor all of them facing the front of the line. They have their knees bent and their hands on their waist. The women are wearing knee-length skirts with bibs and thick petticoats which give their skirts a lot of volume. The men are wearing dark pants and light shirts. All dancers are wearing bandanas around their necks. Spectators are visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cadence Cloggers Performing for Audience]

Description: Photograph of the Cadence Cloggers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Men and women in costume are spread out on the dance floor. In the foreground two men are facing the left stomping their feet and swinging their arms. Two women are in the middle ground doing the same while holding their skirts and large fluffy petticoats. A crowd of spectators is visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Calvary Boys Gospel Singers]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Child Swinging Stick at Piñata]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Chilean Folklorico Group of Houston Performing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Construction of Mexican Food Booth]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Country Cloggers and Buck Dancers Performing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers Performing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[A Couple from Country Cloggers & Buck Dancers Performing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Crim Gospel Singers Performing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dancers with Expresiones Argentinas Performing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dorceal Duckens Performing with the Duckens Family]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Doris Riedel Making Soap]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Drummer for Cajun Playboys]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Duckens Family Singers Performing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dutch Food Booth]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Fashing Polecats Dancing]

Description: 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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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