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[Stan Alexander Peforming with the East Texas String Ensemble]

Description: Photograph of Stan Alexander, member of the East Texas String Ensemble from Nacogdoches, playing acoustic guitar at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is looking to the right and wearing a straw cowboy hat and a collared shirt. A microphone is set up in front of him. A shade canopy is hanging overhead.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Charles Gardner Peforming with the East Texas String Ensemble]

Description: Photograph of Charles Gardner, member of the East Texas String Ensemble from Nacogdoches, playing fiddle at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat, glasses, and a button-up short-sleeved shirt. A microphone is set up in front of him for the fiddle. A shade canopy is hanging overhead.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Francis E. Abernethy Playing String Bass]

Description: Photograph of Dr. Francis E. Abernethy, member of the East Texas String Ensemble, playing string bass at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is smiling and wearing a straw cowboy hat and a striped shirt. A microphone is set up to the left of him. A shade canopy is hanging overhead.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Francis E. Abernethy Peforming with the East Texas String Ensemble]

Description: Photograph of Dr. Francis E. Abernethy, member of the East Texas String Ensemble, playing string bass at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is looking to the right and wearing a straw cowboy hat and a striped shirt. A microphone is set up to the left of him. A shade canopy is hanging overhead.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Francis Abernethy of the East Texas String Ensemble]

Description: Photograph of Dr. Francis Abernethy, acoustic bassist for the East Texas String Ensemble, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat, black frame glasses, a white shirt, and khaki pants. One of his hands is holding the neck of the instrument while the other hand is plucking the strings.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[John Henry Nobles Playing the Rib Bones]

Description: Photograph of John Henry Nobles playing rib bones on stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. John, also known as "Bones," plays with the East Texas String Ensemble, wearing a leopard print hat and a colorful shirt.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Abernathy Playing a Bass]

Description: Photograph of Dr. Francis E. Abernathy performing with the East Texas String Ensemble at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Abernathy wears a cowboy hat with black square glasses, a striped shirt, and jeans as he plays a bass.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ronnie Wolf with Two Children]

Description: Photograph of Ronnie Wolfe of the East Texas String Ensemble with two children at the Texas Folklife Festival. Wolfe is sitting on the right side of bench playing a mandolin. A young girl is on the left side of the bench sitting on top of a wooden paddle used to bounce a toy jumping jack. A young boy is standing to the left of her, holding two jumping jacks over the paddle. She is slapping the paddle to make the jumping jacks dance.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Dr. Francis E. Abernethy]

Description: Photograph of Dr. Francis E. "Ab" Abernethy, member of the East Texas String Ensemble, performing at the Texas Literary Conference in 1986. Dr. Abernethy wears a cowboy hat, square glasses, a long-sleeve shirt, and jeans as he plays a bass. The sticker on the back of the photograph lists his last name as "Abernathy" instead of "Abernethy."
Date: 1986
Creator: Corley, Ronda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[East Texas String Ensemble performs]

Description: Photograph of the East Texas String Ensemble, from Nacogdoches, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The band is made up of four male members, each playing an instrument. Starting from the left, there is a violin or fiddle player, a banjo player, a guitarist, and a upright bassist. The band is performing outdoors on a stage. Two microphones are set up for vocals.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Stan Alexander Plays Guitar]

Description: Photograph of Stan Alexander of the East Texas String Ensemble, from Nacogdoches, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is playing a simple, light-colored, wooden guitar and staring intently out in front of him. Several by-standing spectators are visible in the background.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[String Ensemble Performance]

Description: Photograph of the East Texas String Ensemble, from Nacogdoches, Texas, performing at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The musicians are standing on a concourse and are gathered around two microphones. They are playing several instruments, including the guitar, banjo, and upright bass. The musician playing the upright bass appears to be singing. Other musicians and festival participants are visible in the background.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Musicians Performing on Opening Day]

Description: Photograph of the East Texas String Ensemble performing on opening day of the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The four band members are playing a variety of instruments, such as the upright bass, violin, guitar, and banjo. Each of the four men are wearing cowboy hats, shirts, and slacks. They are singing into microphones and are performing on a concourse as festival participants stand around the band, listening to the performance.
Date: September 7, 1973
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Floor Guides Carrying Balloons to be Released]

Description: Photograph of several floor guides each carrying a bunch of balloons in a variety shapes, sizes, and colors at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The East Texas String Ensemble is playing instruments and standing in front of microphones as the floor guides are bringing out the balloons to be released around them. Festival participants are standing all around the band and balloons.
Date: September 7, 1973
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[East Texas String Ensemble Performance]

Description: Slide of the East Texas String Ensemble from Nacadoches, Texas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are four men in the ensemble, three of which are wearing cowboy hats. There are two members in the foreground sharing a microphone. The third member to the left has his own microphone and the fourth doesn't have one at all. There are people around the ensemble listening to their music. Left to right: Tom Noll, "Ab" Abernethy, Stan Alexander, Charles Gardner.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Men Assembling Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Four men are standing in and around the log cabin in the process of being built. On the left, one man appears to be rolling a log into place. They are all conversing with one another. In the background, the East Texas String Ensemble performs on a flatbed trailer. On the ground in front of them, Bruce Roark stands playing his guitar.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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