[Club Members Performing a Lebanese Dance]
Date: September 7, 1973
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Ameleb Club members performing a Lebanese dance following the rain shower on the opening day of the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The dancers are holding hands and dancing on a designated dance floor. The dancers are not dressed in traditional Lebanese garments, though several of the dancers are wearing rain ponchos. Tarps cover other areas in the background.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227487/
[Ameleb Club Booth Preparing Lebanese Shish Kabobs]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese food booth, sponsored by the Ameleb Club of San Antonio, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The food booth is set up beside a stage that is part of an amphitheater. The rows of the amphitheater are filled with festival visitors. In the foreground behind the food booth, men are cooking Lebanese shish kabobs on large, open-flame grills. Behind them, festival workers are tending to the customers at the counter of the booth. In the background, the Institute of Texas Cultures building is visible.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth226989/
[Ameleb Club Dancer in Purple]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese-American Ameleb Club dancers from San Antonio, dancing with volunteers from the audience at the Texas Folklife Festival. The photograph features a dancer in profile view with long light-brown hair, wearing a purple belly dancing costume and smiling. She is forming part of a circle in which dancers and audience members are holding hands. She is holding hands with a man in a light purple shirt who is standing on the far side of her. Other dancers are partially visible in the background.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227090/
[Ameleb Club Dancers Amongst the Audience]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese-American Ameleb Club dancers from San Antonio, dancing in the audience at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the right foreground, a dancer in a red belly dancing outfit is holding hands with someone out of the frame. She is also holding hands with a dancer in a blue belly dancing outfit who is in the center of the image looking at the camera. Children and adults are standing very close to the chain of dancers on all sides. Everyone is watching intently. In the background, several people are lined along the balcony of the Institute of Texan Cultures.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227095/
[Ameleb Club Dancers and Volunteers Forming a Line]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese-American Ameleb Club dancers from San Antonio, dancing with volunteers from the audience at the Texas Folklife Festival. The dancers and volunteers are lined up holding hands and all facing the front of the dance floor, which is wet and shiny. The photograph is taken from one end of the line, closest to an audience member who's hair and shirt is wet. Next to him in the line, a girl is skipping forward. The line stretches to the other side of the dance floor, about fifteen people. Behind the dance floor is a large Lebanese flag, white with a red top and bottom stripe and a green cedar tree in the center.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227096/
[Ameleb Club Dancers Dance in a Circle with Audience Volunteers]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese-American Ameleb Club dancers from San Antonio, dancing with volunteers from the audience at the Texas Folklife Festival. The dancers and volunteers, about eight total, form a circle holding hands on the brown dance floor which is sectioned off by lines into small rectangles. The photograph is taken from outside of the circle, at the dancers' hip level. Everyone looks enthusiastic and dancing with one foot off the ground and their adjoined hands raised up in the air. Covering the dance floor is a mesh tarp for shade.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227093/
[Ameleb Club Dancers Dancing and Singing with Volunteers from Audience]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese-American Ameleb Club dancers from San Antonio, Texas, dancing with volunteers from the audience at the Texas Folklife Festival. The dancers and volunteers form a circle holding hands on the brown shiny dance floor which is sectioned off by lines into small rectangles. The photograph is taken from one side of the circle, looking across to the other side. Everyone is enthusiastic and dancing with their right leg extended out toward the middle of the circle. Some dancers have their mouths open and appear to be singing or shouting. Spectators in the background line the edge of the dance floor.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227094/
[Ameleb Club Dancers Dancing with Audience Members]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese-American Ameleb Club dancers from San Antonio, dancing with audience members at the Texas Folklife Festival. The photo is taken from an elevated perspective and at a distance from the dance floor. Dancers dressed in purple, yellow and red outfits hold hands and form circles with men from the audience. Several pennant flags hang overhead near the stage and also in the upper foreground. A couple rows of festival visitors are seated in front of the dance floor. Behind the dance floor the flag of Lebanon hangs, white with a top and bottom red stripe and a green cedar tree in the middle.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227289/
[Ameleb Club Dancers Dancing with Volunteers from Audience]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Lebanese-American Ameleb Club dancers from San Antonio, dancing with volunteers from the audience at the Texas Folklife Festival. The dancers and volunteers form a circle as they hold hands on the brown shiny dance floor which is sectioned off by lines into small rectangles. The photograph is taken from the corner of the dance floor, looking across to the other side. In the foreground is a group of about six people in a circle, but more are visible dancing in the background. Spectators line the edge of the dance floor. A mesh net hangs over the dance floor to provide some shade.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227097/
[Lanie Karam Dancing with the Ameleb Club Dancers]
Date: September 1972
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Lanie Karam, dancing with the Ameleb Club dancers, at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a yellow belly dancing costume, consisting of a crop top and long-flowing sheer skirt. She is leaning over to the right with her left arm extended to her side. The photograph is taken from behind her, looking out into the audience. Another dancer in blue is visible near the front of the stage. Several festival visitors are visible in front of the stage.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth227091/