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[Muzzle Loading Instruction by the San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association]

Description: Black and white photograph of a young boy pointing a rifle at an unseen target with his eye closed. Two adults from the San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association, the sponsors of the activity, are supervising the boy. This activity is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Muzzle Loader Instruction]

Description: Photograph of a man instructing a boy on shooting a muzzle loader (gun with charge loaded from muzzle) at the Texas Folklife Festival. The boy is in the foreground aiming the rifle to the right. The man is behind him in the middle ground holding the barrel and watching him carefully. Behind him is a large pile of straw.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[John Collins as Judge Roy Bean Posing with Guns]

Description: Photograph of John Collins as Judge Roy Bean posing with a rifle at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a black hat with a tall round crown, a leather vest, a light-colored shirt, and a bandana around his neck. He is holding a rifle across his chest and is standing in front of a log cabin. He has a bushy white beard.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy Learning About Muzzleloaders]

Description: Photograph of two men teaching a boy about muzzleloaders in "Muzzleloading School" at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy is sitting in between the two men, who are dressed in Civil War era clothing and are showing him the muzzle of a rifle that is laid across their laps. They are all sitting on a stack of wooden shingles, in front of a log cabin.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Muzzleloading School]

Description: Photograph of two men dressed in Civil War era clothing teaching a boy muzzle loading at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are sitting on either side of the boy with two rifles laid across their laps. The man on the right is holding a round silver bullet in front of the boy, and the man on the left is pointing to it and telling the boy about it.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Living History Reenactor with Rifle]

Description: Photograph of a Living History reenactor at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dressed in a blue Civil War era military uniform, he is loading his rifle while standing in front of two other soldier reenactors.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Living History Reenactors with Rifles]

Description: Photograph of three Living History reenactors at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dressed in blue Civil War era military uniforms, they are holding the barrels of their rifles while the stocks rest on the ground.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Frontier Soldiers with Rifles]

Description: Photograph of frontier soldier reenactors at the Texas Folklife Festival. One officer is standing on the right across from two soldiers on the left. They are wearing black coats, black hats with yellow cords, gray pants and black boots. The officer has yellow stripes on the sleeve of his coat. They are all holding their rifles in front of them with their left hand on tip and right hand on bottom, near the trigger area. Behind them on the right, a boy is standing alone, watching them.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Living History Participants Posing for a Photo]

Description: Photograph of two Living History participants dressed in old western wear at the Texas Folklife Festival. The man on the left is sitting on a square bale of hay, holding a vintage pistol and a rifle. The person on the right is kneeling on one knee and holding two long vintage pistols that criss-cross over their chest.
Date: [1988-08-04..1988-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Wearing Fox Skin Cap]

Description: Photograph of a member of the San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association at the Texas Folklife Festival. He has a blonde mustache and is wearing a fox-skin cap, and a leather shirt with fringe on the arms and chest. He is holding a rifle and wearing a knife in a pouch that is tied to his shirt.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Heritage, 2009, Volume 4

Description: Quarterly publication containing articles related to the preservation of historic artifacts and sites in Texas. Feature articles discuss various aspects of Texas history and heritage, often highlighting museums and collections within the state. Also included are book reviews, current preservation news, and a listing of historical museums in Texas.
Date: 2009
Creator: Texas Historical Foundation
Partner: Texas Historical Foundation
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[News Clip: Kelly Field memorial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 8, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Scenes of Soldier Life

Description: Series of postcards depicting military personnel at a base or camp. Each postcard has a short description printed on the front, and the include photos of drills, leisure activities, military aircrafts. The envelope is addressed to Miss Marguerite Car[r]ett in Dripping Springs, Texas and is from "A Soldier Boy." The postmark is from San Antonio, Texas and is dated "J.J.N. 27 5:30PM [..]."
Date: [1913..]
Partner: Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead

[The Alamo historical site with reenactor wearing a face mask]

Description: Photograph of a reenactor in costume and standing in front of the left side of the historical Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. The reenactor is wearing dark blue pants, a light blue button up jacket with gold buttons, brown leather belt with a buckle, canvas cross belt, black top hat, black cloth face mask, and black leather boots. The reenactor is also holding a rifle and has a short knife in a holder on the belt. Metal fencing is to the right of the reenactor in the image. The main wooden door an… more
Date: March 26, 2021
Creator: Woolston, Zachary
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Henley]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a question which has arisen over the number of victims in the Houston mass murder case at the murder trail of Elmer Wayne Henley .
Date: July 11, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Henley]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about prosecutors who present witnesses at San Antonio in efforts to link 18 year old Elmer Wayne Henley to at least six of 27 deaths in the Houston mass murder case.
Date: July 11, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Range-Finder for Rifles.

Description: Patent for range-finder for rifles, with illustrations. The invention "is adapted for ready application to a rifle by producing a simple dovetailed groove in the stock or stock-tip, near the front end" (lines 9-12).
Date: May 22, 1883
Creator: Ord, Edward O. C., Jr. & Kress, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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