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[Aerial View of the Opening Ceremonies]
Photograph taken from the roof of the Institute of Texan Cultures building during the Texas Folklife Festival opening ceremonies in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground is a walkway leading from the building to the rest of the festival grounds. In the background is a group of flag poles. The area is filled with people walking around.
[Allen Damron Playing Guitar]
Photograph of Allen Damron playing acoustic guitar at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a white shirt and jeans, and has brown hair and a beard.
[Antique Corn Sheller]
Photograph of a woman and a young boy operating an antique corn sheller at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman, standing on the right, is inserting pieces of corn into the machine while a little boy turns a crank on the left. The kernels are gathered in a bin near the ground.
[Ballet Folklorico Dancers Performing]
Photograph of Ballet Folklorico dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The women are wearing long colorful dresses which they are twirling around onstage, in front of long orange and red banners that are hanging at the back of the stage. The one male dancer is wearing a white charro suit with a sombrero.
[Bill Smallwood Band Performing]
Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, Bill Smallwood is playing banjo and singing. Other band members performing include a harmonica player at center stage, a man in the back playing drums, and a man playing washtub bass on the right.
[Bill Smallwood Band Performing Onstage]
Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival. At center stage, Bill Smallwood is playing banjo and singing. Other band members performing include a woman on the left playing keyboards, a man in the back playing drums, and a bassist on the right.
[Bill Smallwood Playing Violin]
Photograph of Bill Smallwood playing violin at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a straw cowboy hat, a t-shirt, and jeans, he is playing his instrument on stage with other musicians. He is also wearing glasses and has a bushy beard.
[Blacksmithing Demonstration]
Photograph of a man holding a horseshoe as he demonstrates blacksmithing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, t-shirt, and jeans, he is standing behind an anvil, holding a hammer and a horseshoe with tongs. To the right in the middle ground, a forge full of coals is ablaze.
[Boy with Goat]
Photograph of a boy petting a goat at the Alamo Area Dairy Goat Association exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The little boy is squatting down in the hay next to the small goat.
[Boys Blowing Cowhorns]
Photograph of two boys blowing cow horns in the scrimshaw booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a table is covered in wooden ducks. In the background, several cow horns are hanging on a wall. A woman sitting on the right is watching the boys blow their horns.
[Boys Playing Bocce Ball]
Photograph of two boys playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Each holding a ball the size of a grapefruit, one green and one red, they are about to toss them on the grass in front of them.
[Cajun Band Performing]
Photograph of a Cajun band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a young man is playing pedal steel. Behind him a is a violinist and some amplifiers.
[Cajun Country]
Photograph of Cajun Country at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, the area is labeled with a sign on the grass that says, "Cajun Country." In the foreground and wrapping around the area is a pond. In the background, festival booths are lined up with canopies covering them.
[Children Holding Balloons at the Opening Ceremony]
Photograph of children holding clusters of balloons at the opening ceremonies at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are facing the right on the right side of the photograph. On the left a group of girls are wearing traditional Dutch bonnets and dresses.
[Children Jumping Off Large Tree Trunk in Frontier Playland]
Photograph of children jumping off a large tree trunk in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The trunk is laid on its side next to a bed of hay into which a boy is jumping. Behind him, other children are standing on the trunk.
[Children Playing in the Hay in Frontier Playland]
Photograph of children playing in the hay in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, two boys are throwing hay at each other. In the background, some girls are doing the same. A very large tree trunk is laid on its side on the right side of the photograph.
[Children Riding Artificial Horse in Frontier Playland]
Photograph of children riding an artificial horse in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The white horse, on which a boy and girl are sitting, is tied to a tree on the right.
[Cooks at Cajun Food Booth]
Photograph of two cooks preparing food in the Cajun food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man on the right is stirring a cauldron of food with a wooden oar. A curly-haired woman on the left is scooping out some of the food with a large ladle.
[Crochet Display at Texas Wendish Heritage Society Booth]
Photograph of the crochet display in the Texas Wendish Heritage Society Booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman behind the booth is wearing a matching bonnet and shawl over a white blouse and a long floral skirt. The table in front of her contains an assortment of crocheted items including hats, mittens, and flowers.
[Czech Dancers Performing Onstage]
Photograph of Texas Czechs in Review, Moravian Beseda dancers from Dallas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The women are wearing black and pink floral skirts, white aprons, white peasant blouses, and black fitted vests with colorful embroidery. The men are wearing black pants, white long-sleeved shirts, and long black vests that are decorated with tassels and cinched at the waist with a gold belt. They are each dancing with a partner, four couples total. The men are standing beside their female partners, holding one of their hands and placing the other on their back.
[Dance A Round Exhibition Dancers]
Photograph of Dance A Round Exhibition Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Each dancer has a partner of the opposite sex. The women are wearing dresses with knee-length, fluffy skirts. The men are wearing light-colored shirts, pants, and western belt buckles.
[Dancers at Cajun Stage]
Photograph of dancers at the Cajun stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The stage is under some trees and to the left of a canopy under which many spectators are standing. Four couples are on a gray platform, dancing in front of the stage where the band is playing.
[Devine Music Makers Performing In Front of Log Cabin]
Photograph of the Devine Music Makers performing in front of a log cabin at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, a man wearing a cowboy hat is playing a fiddle. In the middle, an older man wearing a jumpsuit is playing a double-necked guitar. The man on the right is wearing a brown leather vest and playing an electric fiddle.
[Devine Music Makers Performing Onstage]
Photograph of the Devine Music Makers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing vests and cowboy hats, they are arranged on a gray stage in front of a backdrop of vertical orange banners. The band is made up of fiddlers, guitarists, and a piano player. A little girl is standing at the front of the stage, facing the audience.
[Dorceal Duckens Directing the Duckens Family Singers]
Photograph of Dorceal Duckens directing the Duckens Family Singers, from Temple, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing light blue pants and a light blue t-shirt, he is on the left, leading the singers who are behind microphones on the right. They are all women, wearing skirts and the Duckens Family t-shirt.
[Duckens Family Singers Performing]
Photograph of the Duckens Family Singers, from Temple, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all wearing the same light blue Duckens family t-shirt as they stand in a row singing into microphones.
[Elevated View of Crowd Gathered at Stage]
Photograph of stage 5 and Bowie Street as seen from the roof of the Institute of Texan Cultures Building at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a crowd of spectators are seated under a canopy watching dancers performing on the stage. In the middle ground is a street with cars parked all along the median. In the background, a highway interchange is visible.
[Elevated View of Stage 7]
Photograph of stage 7 and the "Back Forty" as seen from the roof of the Institute of Texan Cultures Building at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the right a canopy is covering the area where people are walking. The area on the left is covered with trees.
[Emilie Bethke Making Pickles]
Photograph of Emilie Bethke demonstrating how to make pickles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a pioneer dress and a bonnet, she is sitting on the left side of a bench slicing something with a small knife. In the middle of the bench are two bowls: one next to her and one next to a boy on the right who is slicing up cucumbers into it.
[Emma Wuensche Crocheting in the Texas Wendish Heritage Society Booth]
Photograph of Emma Wuensche crocheting in the Texas Wendish Heritage Society Booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing glasses, and a matching bonnet and shawl over a white blouse and a skirt. She is holding a wooden frame on which she is weaving yarn in and out. The table in front of her contains an assortment of circular crocheted pieces.
[Female Dancers of the Lijauco Bayanihan Dance Ensemble Performing]
Photograph of some female members of the Lijuaco Bayanihan Dance Ensemble, from Laredo, Texas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are wearing white dresses with floral cloth tied around their waist and straw cowboy hats with pink ribbons tied around the band.
[Festival Visitors Learning Filipino Tinikling]
Photograph of Filipino Americans teaching festival visitors the tinikling dance in the San Antonio Tinikling School at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Pairs of dancers kneeling on the ground are beating and tapping bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers and visitors who are stepping over and in between the poles in a dance.
[Game of Bocce]
Photograph of four boys playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy in front, holding two red balls, is preparing to toss them on the grass in front of him. They are standing in an area marked off by square hay bales.
[Gilmer Yamboree Representatives]
Photograph of Gilmer Yamboree representatives at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Daisy Potter, the Possum Queen, is in the center wearing a long dress with the image of a possum sewn on the skirt. She is holding a parasol and has a wooden possum on a leash. On either side of her are two men wearing overalls and patterned shirts.
[Girl Jumping Off Large Tree Trunk in Frontier Playland]
Photograph of children jumping off a large tree trunk in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The trunk is laid on its side next to a bed of hay into which a girl is jumping. Other children are standing on the trunk.
[Girl with Goat]
Photograph of a girl petting a goat at the Alamo Area Dairy Goat Association exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The goat is on the left standing on a small platform while the girl is on the right, next to its feeding bucket.
[Group Gathered on Veranda for Opening Ceremonies]
Photograph of a group of people gathered under the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures at the opening ceremonies of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Some girls on the right are holding bunches of yellow balloons.
[Hank Harrison Playing Violin with Tennessee Valley Authority]
Photograph of Hank Harrison playing violin with the Tennessee Valley Authority at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. To the right of him is a guitar player and a banjo player.
[Homero Torres Burning Thorns Off Prickly Pear Cactus]
Photograph of Homero Torres using a kerosene-powered prickly pear burner at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and plaid shirt, he is burning the thorns off of the cactus so they can be used as cattle feed during a drought. The prickly pears are on the right, up against a chain-link fence while Torres stands on the left holding the burner that extends a couple feet out in front of him.
[Homero Torres with Pile of Prickly Pear Cactus]
Photograph of Homero Torres with a kerosene-powered prickly pear burner at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and plaid shirt, he is standing next to the burner which is used to burn the thorns off of the cactus so they can be used as cattle feed during a drought. A pile of prickly pears is on the right while Torres is on the left.
[Indian Man Chanting and Playing a Drum]
Photograph of Jack Batisse performing Alabama-Coushatta Indian chants as he plays a drum at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an elaborate headdress, he is sitting at a large Indian drum and singing into a microphone.
[Japanese Brush Letter Demonstration]
Photograph of a woman in a kimono demonstrating Japanese brush lettering at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is sitting on the left, behind the booth, while two festival visitors are standing on the right watching her.
[Jim and Mary Hebert Dancing at Cajun Stage]
Photograph of Jim and Mary Hebert dancing in front of the Cajun Stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The area is shaded with trees.
[Jim and Mary Hebert Dancing at Cajun Stage]
Photograph of Jim and Mary Hebert dancing at the Cajun stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Surrounded by spectators, they are dancing on a sidewalk in front of a small stage where a band is playing. In the left foreground, a boy wearing a red t-shirt and gym shorts is looking off to the left.
[Jim Fox and Charles Davis Playing Music at Frontier Fort]
Photograph of Jim Fox and Charles Davis playing music on the porch of Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Fox is sitting in a rocking chair on the left, wearing western wear and playing a banjo. Davis is sitting on the right playing a wind instrument.
[Johnny T. Neal, Jr. Making Horsehair Rope]
Photograph of Johnny T. Neal, Jr. using twister to make horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, a collared shirt, and jeans, he is holding one end of the rope while a young man twists the horsehair in a machine with a manual crank.
[Juan Martinez Demonstrating How to Thatch a Roof]
Photograph of Juan Martinez demonstrating how to thatch a roof at the opening ceremonies of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and tan plaid shirt, he is laying out plant stalks on a table. A little boy is standing on the right.
[Lebanese Folk Dancers from San Antonio]
Photograph of the Lebanese Folk Dancers from San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three women wearing long red and green dresses are dancing with tambourines onstage in front of a large Lebanese flag.
[Lebanese Folk Dancers from San Antonio Performing]
Photograph of the Lebanese Folk Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are forming a circle, facing outwards. The women are wearing long red skirts with green vests and the men are wearing white shirts, black vests, and black harem pants. All the dancers are barefoot.
[Life-Size Doll at Treadle Sewing Machine]
Photograph of a life-sized doll sitting at a treadle sewing machine in the Fiber Designer's Display at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The doll, dressed as a pioneer woman, is positioned to look like she is sewing on the machine. The black sewing machine is built into a wooden table on which a white basket of yarn is sitting.
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