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- [Letter from A'Lelia Bundles to Sterling Houston - December 29, 1990]
- Letter from A'Lelia Bundles to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. It appears there was a woman, A'Lelia Walker, who inspired Mr. Houston to write a stage play. Ms. Bundles writes to praise Houston on the play and inform him of other news in theatre.
- [Letter from Eduardo Diaz to Sterling Houston - July 10, 1990]
- Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the San Antonio Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. He writes informing him of his candidacy for an Individual Artist Grant. The rest of the letter details what is to come and how the decision will be made in the upcoming weeks.
- [Letter from Eduardo Diaz to Sterling Houston - July 23, 1990]
- Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs in San Antonio, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. Mr. Diaz writes to inform Mr. Houston that he is one of eleven other local artists to receive a grant and that confirmation of his grant will take place in the upcoming months.
- [Letter from Midge Graybeal to Sterling Houston - December 27, 1990]
- Letter from Midge Graybeal, executive director of the San Antonio Business Committee for the Arts, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. She writes to inform him of his nomination for the 1991 Artist of the Year. The award event will encompass a daytime luncheon where the winner will be announced.
- [Letter from Edwina Gray Higgins to Western Area Links - August 25, 1990]
- Letter from Edwina Gray Higgins to members of The Links, Inc. in the western United States reminding them of important Western Area business. Chapters must continue to plan relevant programs that address issues in the black community, familiarize themselves with revisions to the bylaws made at the recent National Assembly, and file taxation forms in a timely manner.
- [Letter from Sterling Houston to San Antonio Light Editor - August 15, 1990]
- Letter from Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright, to the editor of the San Antonio Light, a now closed newspaper. Houston writes to commend the quality of their work; particularly, their treatment of art and artists.
- [Aerial View of the Institute of Texas Cultures]
- Photograph of an aerial view of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, the Institute of Texas Cultures dominates the scene. The building is surrounded by festival booths and vehicles. Brightly-colored flags decorate the main thoroughfare as festival participants explore the festival.
- [Aerial View of the Texas Folklife Festival]
- Photograph of an aerial view of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, the main thoroughfare is visible between two grassy areas. Festival participants walk the thoroughfare and explore the dozens of booths representing various cultures. The photograph was taken from the roof of the Institute of Texas Cultures building.
- [Aguas Frescas Booth]
- Photograph of a woman serving aguas frescas at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The women wears a large sombrero and a blue shirt. She stirs a large container of aguas frescas, a flavored fruit drink, with a long ladle. The booth is sponsored by the Mexican-American Business and Professional Women.
- [Aguas Frescas Booth]
- Photograph of a woman serving aguas frescas at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman is wearing a large sombrero with the word "Mexico" embroidered across the brim in red thread as she stirs a large container of fruit juice. The drink booth is sponsored by the Mexican-American Business and Professional Women's Organization.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dance Demonstration]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dance performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear traditional Native American clothing consisting of feather headdresses, beaded headbands, skirts with long fringe, and white moccasins.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dance Demonstration]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dance performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear traditional Native American clothing consisting of feather headdresses, beaded headbands, skirts with long fringe, and white moccasins. They perform on a grey stage in front of a large audience of festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dance Demonstration]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man wears a beaded and feathered headdress with a red mantle covered with yellow fringe and a white bandanna. His face is painted with white and yellow paint.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dance Performance]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer's face is painted black and green. He wears a beaded headband, breast plate, and belt. His suede moccasins are beaded and wrapped in fur. He swings a red cord around his head and body, performing a dance for festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dance Performance]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer's face is painted black and green. He wears a beaded headband, breast plate, and belt as he raises an object constructed of red tubing above his head.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dancer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer's face is painted black and green. He wears a beaded headband, breast plate, and belt. His suede moccasins are beaded and wrapped in fur. He swings a red cord around his head and body, performing a dance for festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dancer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer's face is painted black and green. He wears a beaded headband, breast plate, and belt. His suede moccasins are beaded and wrapped in fur. He swings a red cord around his head, performing a dance for festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dancer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer wears a large feathered headdress with a beaded headband, tasseled shirt, and beaded belt. He holds painted sticks with beaded tassels attached to the ends as he dances for festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dancer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man wears a beaded and feathered headdress with a red mantle covered with yellow fringe. His white leather moccasins are embroidered with beads and bells. He holds stick-like objects with swinging tassels in his hands as he dances.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dancing Demonstration]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man wears a beaded and feathered headdress with a red mantle covered with yellow fringe. His white leather moccasins are embroidered with beads and bells. He holds to stick-like objects with swinging tassels in his hands as he dances. His face is painted with white and yellow paint.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Dancing Demonstration]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer wears a large feathered headdress with a beaded headband, chest plate and belt. He holds painted sticks with beaded tassels attached to the ends as he dances for festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Flute Player]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer playing the flute at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer wears traditional Native American clothing consisting of a beaded headdress, long beaded necklaces, a navy bandanna, and a pink top with fringe.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Hoop Dance]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer performing at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancer wears traditional Native American clothing as he performs a hoop dance for festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Hoop Dance Performance]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer performing at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancer wears traditional Native American clothing as he performs a hoop dance for festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Indian Dance Performance]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The young boy wears traditional Native American clothing consisting of a beaded headdress, long beaded necklaces, a red vest and apron, and feather pieces tied to his arms.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Indian Dancer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancer wears traditional Native American clothing consisting of a beaded headdress, long beaded necklaces, a blue bandanna, and a blue top and skirt with light blue fringe.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Indian Dancer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer performing at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancer wears traditional Native American clothing as he performs for a large crowd of festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Indian Performer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The girl wears a beaded headdress and necklaces with a pink dress and sash. She smiles for the photograph before performing for a crowd of festival participants.
- [Alabama-Coushatta Native American Dancer]
- Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer performing at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancer wears traditional Native American clothing as he performs a hoop dance for festival participants.
- [Allen Graham, Whittler]
- Photograph of Allen Graham at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Allen sits on a bench in between two boys, giving a whittling demonstration to festival participants. He uses a hay bale as his workstation, placing the extra tools on it for safekeeping.
- [Alpha Phi Alpha Barbecue Ribs Booth]
- Photograph of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity serving barbecued ribs at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, four men are wearing aprons and displaying a tub of cooked ribs inside of a festival booth. Participants wait in line outside of the booth.
- [Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Food Booth]
- Photograph of a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity serving barbecued ribs at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man wears a blue hat and a yellow and white striped shirt underneath a yellow apron. He holds a large pan of ribs as he stands in the fraternity's soul food booth.
- [Alsatian Dance Performance]
- Photograph of the Alsatian dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The female dancers wear a large black hat and skirt, with a white blouse under a black vest. The male partners wear a similar white shirt with a red vest, black pants, hat, and shoes. The couples perform on a grey stage in front of a grassy hill as festival participants watch the demonstration.
- [Alsatian Dance Team]
- Photograph of Alsatian dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two girls stand in front of a male dancer, wearing black dresses with flower embroidery, white blouses, and flower headbands, while the male dancer wears a white shirt with a red bow tie, black vest, and black pants.
- [Alsatian Dancer]
- Photograph of the Alsatian dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The female dancer wears a large black hat with white and gold beading, a white blouse with inset panels of lace, a red ribbon tied at her neck, and red hoop earrings.
- [Alsatian Dancers]
- Photograph of the Alsatian Hungarian dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The female dancers wear a large black hat with a white blouse under a black vest, and a red skirt. The male partners wear a similar white shirt with a red vest, and black pants, hat, and shoes. The couples perform on a grey stage in front of a grassy hill as festival participants watch the demonstration.
- [Alsatian Dancers Taking A Break]
- Photograph of the Alsatian Dancers resting outside of the dance floor at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three girls and two boys dressed in traditional Alsatian clothing rest against a makeshift board, waiting for their turn to perform.
- [Alta Niebuhr]
- Photograph of two individuals at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Alta Niebuhr, left, stands near a selection of herbs from her garden in Austin. Niebuhr wears a floral dress and blue checked bonnet. Another woman, right, wears a red checked dress with lace detailing and a straw hat.
- [Alta Niebuhr Giving a Lecture on Herb]
- Photograph of Alta Niebuhr giving lessons on herbs at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, she leans toward a small child, teaching festival participants how to dry herbs. She wears a floral dress and a checkered bonnet as she works.
- [Alvin Sueltenfuss Selling Strawberry Wine]
- Photograph of Alvin Sueltenfuss at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Alvin stands in front of the Kendall County Community Booth, holding a bottle of strawberry wine he made for the festival. He wears a cowboy hat, a plaid shirt, denim jeans, and a brown leather belt.
- [Alvin Sueltenfuss Teaching Winemaking]
- Photograph of Alvin Sueltenfuss at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Alvin stands in front of several bottles of his homemade wine in the Kendall County Community Booth. He wears a cowboy hat, a plaid shirt, denim jeans, and a brown leather belt.
- [Amelab Lebanese Dance]
- Photograph of Amelab Lebanese Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancers, wearing traditional Lebanese clothing, stand in a line with their arms across each others' shoulder. They stand in front of a mesh backing at the left of a festival booth.
- [Ameleb Lebanese Dancer]
- Photograph of the Amelab Lebanese Folk Dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer wears a gold top underneath a red vest with a long pink skirt embroidered with gold sequins and ribbon. Other members of the dance group stand behind her in rows, performing for the audience.
- [Ameleb Lebanese Dancer Performance]
- Photograph of an Amelab Lebanese Folk Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The four male and three female dancers stand on a grey stage in a line, facing the audience. Each dancer holds hands with another as they kick their right legs in the air.
- [Ameleb Lebanese Dancers]
- Photograph of the Amelab Lebanese Folk Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear gold tops and long flowing skirts with gold trim. They perform barefoot in the middle of a grey concrete area within the festival.
- [Ameleb Lebanese Folk Dance]
- Photograph of Ameleb Lebanese Folk Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The four male dancers and three female dancers form a line towards the front of the stage, holding hands and kicking their right legs out toward a hillside of festival participants. The men wear blue shirts with black pants and red sashes, while the women wear white blouses with black skirts with blue head coverings that trail down the back of their clothing.
- [American Indian Horse Registry Booth]
- Photograph of the American Indian Horse Registry Booth at the 19th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman stands to the left of the booth display, giving information to several festival participants.
- [Ann Morgan at the Cactus Cafe]
- Photograph of Ann Morgan at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Ann wears a red hat, white shirt and gold-rimmed glasses. She holds a plate of food in her hands from the Cactus Cafe, a food booth within the festival.
- [Arathi Dance Member]
- Photograph of a dancer from the Arathi School of Indian Dance performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The performer wears an embroidered sari with many bracelets, necklaces and anklets. She performs on a stage in front of a striped canopy.
- [Arathi Indian Dance Members]
- Photograph of performers belonging to the Arathi School of Dance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The performers wear embroidered saris with many bracelets, necklaces and anklets, with shells and leaves in their hair.