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- Bicycle riders in downtown San Antonio
- Photograph of girls riding bicycles on the street in front of an entrance to HemisFair '68, in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Many of the people standing outside of the fair's gates are watching the riders pass by. The central concrete shaft of the Tower of the Americas is visible in the background.
- [Big Roger Collins Performing at the Texas Folklife Festival]
- Photograph of Big Rodger Collins performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Roger wears a three-piece suit and a matching hat as he stands on a stage, singing into a corded microphone.
- [Bill Brett Explaining How to Make Rope]
- Photograph of Bill Brett explaining how to make rope at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman is sitting next to him holding the rope that he is holding in his hands. Other visitors and booths are visible in the background.
- [Bill Brett, Rope Maker]
- Black and white photograph of Bill Brett, a man who makes ropes from horsehair; he is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is seated on a lawn chair, hand spinning fibers into workable material for making ropes -- some of which are hanging on a rope to the right.
- [Bill Brett Spinning Horsehair Rope]
- Photograph of Bill Brett, postmaster from Hull, Texas, spinning horsehair rope and telling stories at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a gray collared shirt, a gray cowboy hat, and big glasses as he clutches a bundle of light-colored horsehair. He is looking up from his chair at someone or something.
- [Bill Brett the Horsehair Rope Maker]
- Photograph of Bill Brett, a horsehair rope maker, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is holding up a rope to a group of visitors on the left.
- [Bill Brett with Horsehair Rope]
- Photograph of Bill Brett, postmaster from Hull, Texas, spinning horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a gray collared shirt, a gray cowboy hat, and big glasses as he clutches a bundle of light-colored horsehair and a completed rope.
- [Bill Burns of The Bluegrass Kinfolks]
- 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.
- [Bill Clark, Axman]
- Photograph of Bill Clark, an axeman from Nacogdoches, working with an ax at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Clark is seated in front of a tree stump. He wears a straw hat, collared shirt with short sleeves, glasses, name tag, and overalls. A boy stands on the left. He wears a name tag, t-shirt, shorts, and fanny pack.
- [Bill Clark Making a Shingle]
- Photograph of Bill Clark making a shingle at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is straddling a work bench with the piece of wood in front of him. He is using a drawknife to shave the piece down to the proper shape. He is wearing overalls, sunglasses, and a straw cowboy hat.
- [Bill Clark Making Shingles]
- 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.
- [Bill Clayton and Pat Thatcher at Opening Ceremonies]
- 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.
- [Bill Clayton Cutting Ribbon at Opening Ceremony]
- 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.
- [Bill Corkery at the Texas Folklife Festival]
- Photograph of "Cowboy" Bill Corkery demonstrating rope techniques to children at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Bill is standing in a grassy area wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt, cowboy hat and tan belt. He is twirling a piece of rope tied into a circle with his mouth. Three girls to his left and one boy to his right are watching Bill as he performs.
- [Bill Corkery Making Adobe]
- Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the pit of adobe, breaking weeds over the mixture, wearing a straw hat, a blue checkered shirt, denim jeans, and brown leather boots. Festival participants watch him as he makes the adobe.
- [Bill Corkery Telling Story Onstage]
- Photograph of Bill Corkery telling a story on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is sitting on a hay bale, wearing a cowboy hat and speaking into a microphone. In the left foreground, two young audience members are sitting on the edge of the stage. The backdrop of the stage is painted to look like a wooden house front.
- [Bill Leftwich Engraving Leather]
- Photograph of Bill Leftwich, western artist from Lubbock, engraving a scene on leather at the Texas Folklife Festival. With a mallet he is hammering a shaping tool into the leather to leave an impression. Hanging behind him are two portraits he has completed. His greased hair is partied in the middle and he is wearing black frame glasses and a dark shirt.
- [Bill Leftwich Engraving Scene on Leather]
- Photograph of Bill Leftwich, from Lubbock, Texas, engraving a scene on leather at the Texas Folklife Festival. Using a mallet he hammers a shaping tool into the leather. It is apparent he is making a portrait of some kind.
- [Bill Lindig Splitting Shingles]
- Photograph of Bill Lindig splitting shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill straddles a sawhorse as he cuts shingles from a block of wood. Festival participants are visible in the background, interacting with festival booths and watching festival demonstrations.
- [Bill Mancham Constructing a Log Cabin]
- Black and white photograph of a man named Neal Wright who is constructing a log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing by a corner of the unfinished cabin, surveying the logs with a pencil in hand.
- [Bill Morris]
- Photograph of Bill Morris performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Bill Morris is seated as he plays a guitar. He wears a vertically striped shirt, straw cowboy hat, name tag, and jeans.
- [Bill Sallee Making Whistles]
- 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.
- [Bill Sallee Telling a Story]
- Photograph of Bill Sallee telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two young girls with pigtails are sitting on the edge of the stage in front of him; the one on the left is holding a small wooden box. Sallee is sitting in a rocking chair, holding a microphone in one hand and a cowbell in the other. He has curly, bushy hair and is wearing glasses.
- [Bill Shugart and the Texas Funteers]
- Photograph of Bill Shugart performing with the Texas Funteers at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill is playing a banjo on a stage with a Texas flag backdrop and a large canopy shading the performance area. He is wearing denim jeans with red suspenders, a striped tie, and brightly-colored pattern shirt, tucked into leather cowboy boots.
- [Bill Smallwood and the Jazz Cowboys]
- Photograph of Bill Smallwood and the Jazz Cowboys performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man, center, plays a trumpet. A guitar hangs from a strap over his shoulder. He wears a plaid shirt, jeans, glasses, and a cowboy hat. A man on the right side of the stage plays an electric guitar. Various pieces of musical equipment are visible in the background.
- [Bill Smallwood and the Jazz Cowboys]
- Photograph of Bill Smallwood performing with the Jazz Cowboys at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill and the other members of the Jazz cowboys wear cowboy hats and collared shirts, with leather belts and denim jeans. The sing together underneath a canopied stage.
- [Bill Smallwood and the Jazz Cowboys]
- Photograph of the Bill Smallwood and the Jazz Cowboys at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are performing on stage and playing instruments in front of three microphones on stands. Other instruments and equipment surround them. A backdrop with "Texas" is visible in the background.
- [Bill Smallwood and the Jazz Cowboys Onstage]
- Photograph of Bill Smallwood and the Jazz Cowboys performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, a mustachioed man plays an electric bass guitar. He wears a white t-shirt, jean shorts, and a baseball cap. On the right, a man plays an electric guitar. He wears a plaid shirt, jeans, glasses, and a cowboy hat. A drummer and guitarist are visible in the background.
- [Bill Smallwood Band]
- Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Sandy Smallwood stands to the left of the stage, holding a microphone in her hand, wearing a cowboy hat and a shirt reading "Bill Smallwood Band." Her husband, Bill, stands to the far right, playing an electric guitar.
- [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 Onstage]
- Photograph of Bill Smallwood performing with the Jazz Cowboys at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Smallwood plays an electric guitar. He wears a plaid shirt, jeans, glasses, and a cowboy hat. A guitarist is visible in the background.
- [Bill Smallwood Playing the Trumpet]
- Photograph of Bill Smallwood performing with the Jazz Cowboys at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill plays the trumpet on a canopied stage, wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid collared shirt.
- [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.
- [Bill Todd at Smokehouse]
- Photograph of Bill Todd at the 24th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Todd wears a straw cowboy hat, blue button up shirt, and red suspenders. He stands near a smokehouse and is in the process of preparing food.
- [Bill Todd at Smokehouse]
- Photograph of Bill Todd, from Round Rock, Texas, at Smokehouse at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat that has part of a raccoon skin on it. He is reaching up to grab some peppers that are hanging on a string. On the counter in front of him a couple of squash are visible.
- [Bird's Eye View of "Cajun Country"]
- Photograph taken from bird's eye view of large, steep, grassy slope at the Texas Folklife Festival. Large yellow lettering is loosely arranged on the right side of the hill and reads "Cajun Country" which is sponsored by the Cajun Festival and Texas Champion Crawfish Races in Port Arthur. Some people are sitting or standing at the top of the slope where the ground levels out. The area behind them is decorated with pennant flags and contains a couple of booths. Many festival visitors are walking around this area. Several other people are standing or sitting close to the bottom of the slope. A few people are sitting on the lettering.
- [Bird's Eye View of Drummer]
- Bird's eye photograph of the drummer of Jackie Callier and the Rambling Aces, a Cajun band from Port Arthur, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The drummer is playing at the back of a wooden stage and wearing black pants, a white short-sleeved shirt, and a red hat. Instrument cases and some cables are strewn around the drum set. Two people are sitting on the back of the stage in the top right of the photograph. A trash can is located offstage right behind the drummer.
- [Bird's Eye View of the Institute of Texan Cultures]
- Bird's eye photograph of the Institute of Texan Cultures during the first Texas Folklife Festival. The building and all the surrounding festival grounds are visible. In the left foreground in front of the building, there is a parking lot that is mostly full. The Institute of Texan Cultures building is in the middle of the photograph. Many people are visible, scattered all over the festival grounds. Behind the building is a highway that recedes to the back of the photograph. Trees and buildings are visible in the background of the photo, receding to the horizon.
- [Biscuits O'Bryan Storyteller]
- Photograph of Biscuits O'Bryan, a storyteller, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is standing on stage holding a microphone. A sign that reads "Story Tellers" is visible in the background.
- [Black and White Chicken Flying Out of a Mailbox]
- 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.
- Black & Blue: Four Hundred Years of Struggle and Transcendence
- This manuscript by Sterling Houston is a short play about the struggles and triumphs of African-Americans in the United States and, in particular, Texas over a period of four hundred years. The play features writing by Sterling Houston interwoven with both live and and recorded musical performances, poetic excerpts, and direct quotations from legal documents and decrees.
- [ Black Chicken Flying Out of Mailbox]
- Photograph of a black chicken flying out of a mailbox as part of the chicken flying contest at the Texas Folklife Festival. The mailbox, on the right, is red and blue and is on a tall white post that raises it high in the air. A man and woman are standing on a connected platform on the right. The woman is pushing a plunger through the open back of the mailbox to make the chicken fly out. The man is holding a piece of cardboard over the open back to keep the chicken from coming out that side. The chicken is mid-flight, just having flown out of the front of the mailbox. The only thing visible in the background is the sky.
- [Black Coalition on Mass Media Agenda for November Meeting]
- November meeting agenda for Black Coalition on Mass Media. Four tasks are listed, and three additional ones have been hand-written at the bottom of the page.
- [Black Coalition on Mass Media By-Laws]
- Typed by-laws of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, a San Antonio civil rights organization professing to improve the ways in which the media interacts and represents the African-American community. There are seven articles explaining regulations, policies, and other material about the organization's composition.
- [Black Coalition on Mass Media July Minutes]
- Minutes for a July 1978 meeting of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, a civil rights organization for the betterment of African-American representation in the media. The document contains lists on issues discussed and the names of those present.
- [Black Coalition on Mass Media Minutes - July 16, 1978]
- Typed minutes for a July 1978 meeting of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM). It gives information on topics discusses, members in attendance, and other pertinent details.
- [Black Coalition on Mass Media Minutes - March 6, 1974]
- Hand-written minutes for a March 1974 meeting of the Black Coalition on Mass Media. Some of the content on the page, however, is difficult to read.
- [Black Coalition on Mass Media Mission Statement]
- Mission statement for the Black Coalition on Mass Media, where five statements explain the organization's purpose. According to these statements, the Coalition is broadly concerned with improving and changing the ways in which media outlets interact, affect, or touch on the lives of black men and women.
- [Black Coalition on Mass Media Press Statement]
- Press statement released by the Black Coalition on Mass Media, a San Antonio civil rights organization with the intent to better how the mass media represents and interacts with the African-American community. The statement explains their basic purpose and goes on to specify a particular grievance with KAPE radio, which they see as exploitative and damaging.