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[Alcide Donatto of the Slippers Zoddico Band]

Description: Photograph of Alcide Donatto, a member of the Slippers Zoddico Band, performing at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Alcide plays the electric accordion as he sings into a microphone. He wears a black hat and a black collared shirt with sheer insets across the chest. Colorful canopies decorate the booths behind the stage.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Men Serving Food in Soul Food Booth]

Description: Photograph of two men serving food inside the Soul Food booth operated by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at the Texas Folklife Festival. A young man is on the right side of the photograph wearing a t-shirt and a bowler hat. Another man beside him is also wearing a bowler hat and is putting food from a large crock pot onto a piece of foil.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sarita Rodriguez Plays Guitar]

Description: Photograph of Sarita Rodriguez playing guitar and singing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has very curly dark hair and is wearing a short-sleeved white shirt with decorative embroidery around the neck and sleeves. She is picking at her guitar and singing into a microphone. Behind her, a few other microphone stands and a piano are visible.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Monja Blanca Guatemalan Performance]

Description: Photograph of Monja Blanca, a Guatemalan Folkloric Group, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two women carry a large tray of flowers on their shoulders as they walk across the stage. Children stand in a row behind the dancers carrying tall lanterns, and a band plays in the background on the stage.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Texas Indian Heritage Society Musical Performance]

Description: Photograph of several members of the Texas Indian Heritage Society at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man dressed in traditional Native American clothing is playing the flute. A young girl stands to his left, holding a small box decorated with long beaded tassels and feathers.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Czech Folk Dancing]

Description: Photograph of the Czech Folk Dancers of West performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman with her arm raised above her head holds hands with a man as she twirls in a circle in front of him. Two lines of dancers form a tunnel that the dancers walk through as they perform on a stage in front of a large crowd.
Date: [1984-08-02..1984-08-05]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Tommy Tijerina with Retired Refugio County Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of Tommy Tijerina (from Louise O'Connor Historical Group and Wexford Publishing Co.) with retired Refugio County cowboys at the Texas Folklife Festival. These cowboys were featured in the Cryin' For Daylight photograph exhibit on display during the festival. Eight men are pictured, most of them African-American. Six of them are standing behind a table (TONY LOTT, ALEJANDRO "ALEX" DE LA GARZA, REV. MACK WILLIAMS, TOMMY TIJERINA, K.J. OLIVER, WILLIE BROWN) but two are sitting down at i… more
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Serving Pickles]

Description: Black and white photograph of a woman named Barbara Stall serving homemade pickles from a booth, where she stands behind a table. The booth is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Several ingredients are on the table, including: a bottle of vinegar, a sack of Morton salt, some spices, a few mason jars, a box of toothpicks, a bowl of pickles, and a stack of recipe cards.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ed Bell, Storyteller]

Description: Color photograph of an elderly man wearing a captain's cap standing before a microphone. He is identified as Ed Bell, a storyteller from Indianola, Texas, who is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Making Pickles]

Description: Color photograph of a woman named Barbara Stall, a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is demonstrating pickle making and passing out sheets of paper with the recipe on them to passersby at her table. On her table are stacks of more recipes, a jar of pickles, and a few metal bowls filled with pickling ingredients. She is wearing a patterned apron.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jo Ann Andera with V. T. "Cowboy" Williams]

Description: Photograph of festival director Jo Ann Andera and V. T. "Cowboy" Williams at the opening party for the Texas Folklife Festival participants. Andera is on the left wearing a white cotton dress smiling at the camera. Williams is on the right, wearing a cowboy hat, a long-sleeved shirt, jeans and a sheriff's badge. Other festival participants are visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: Sidoric, Michael
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Charles Hollingsworth Slicing Bread]

Description: Photograph of Dr. Charles Hollingsworth, a bread baker, slicing a loaf of bread on a cutting board at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a plaid shirt, an apron, and an oven mitt on the hand that is holding the bread.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Cooking Sausage in Alsatian Food Booth]

Description: Photograph of a man cooking sausage in the Castroville Alsatian food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an apron and a trucker hat, he is standing next to a grill where long sausages are cooking.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Krakowiak Polish Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and woman are dancing together side-by-side with their arms around the other's lower back. Their opposite arms are raised in the air. The woman is wearing a knee-length floral skirt, a peasant shirt with an embroidered vest, and knee-high boots. The man is wearing dark pants, a light shirt, and an open embroidered vest.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bob Goebel Serving Sausage on a Stick]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Men Grilling Greek Souvlaki]

Description: Photograph of two men grilling Greek souvlaki at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The booth is sponsored by St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church in San Antonio. The chicken kabobs are lined up side-by-side on the grill while the two men rotate them to ensure even cooking.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Visitors Trying to Solve Puzzles]

Description: Photograph of festival visitors trying to solve Roland Denny's puzzles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A table is covered with groups of cubes about the size of alphabet blocks. Visitors are trying to arrange them in the correct way to reveal an image. Since the cubes have six sides, each group of cubes contains six possible puzzles.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Norwegian Trolls]

Description: Photograph of a woman and boy dressed as Norwegian trolls at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are wearing long, grotesque noses and raggedy clothing. Their faces and arms are smeared with mud.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Girl Playing in Hay]

Description: Photograph of a girl playing in a hay pile at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She has tossed a bunch of hay up in the air and is letting it fall on her head.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Virginia Munroe Holding a Basket She Made]

Description: Photograph of Virginia Munroe holding a basket she made at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bonnet and a gingham dress, she is holding a woven basket about the size of a small suitcase.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Virginia Munroe Shaving Wood for a Basket]

Description: Photograph of Virginia Munroe shaving wood to make a basket at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bonnet and a gingham dress, she is straddling a work bench, shaving a piece of wood with a drawknife.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[James Ander Caning a Chair]

Description: Photograph of James Ander weaving caning for chair seats at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Using a wooden frame, he is weaving long, thin bamboo pieces to make a seat bottom that will be attached to a chair. Some festival visitors are watching from the other side of the table.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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