Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Collection: Texas Folklife Festival Collectionhttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TFFC/browse/?fq=str_title_serial:8th+Annual+Texas+Folklife+Festival2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Collection: Texas Folklife Festival Collection[Dr. Charles Hollingsworth Slicing Bread]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299969/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299969/"><img alt="[Dr. Charles Hollingsworth Slicing Bread]" title="[Dr. Charles Hollingsworth Slicing Bread]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299969/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Dr. Charles Hollingsworth, a bread baker, slicing a loaf of bread on a cutting board at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a plaid shirt, an apron, and an oven mitt on the hand that is holding the bread.</p>[Young Visitor Eating Sausage on a Stick]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299970/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299970/"><img alt="[Young Visitor Eating Sausage on a Stick]" title="[Young Visitor Eating Sausage on a Stick]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299970/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of an African-American girl eating sausage on a stick at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is looking at the camera as she takes her first bite of the sausage.</p>[Man Cooking Sausage in Alsatian Food Booth]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299971/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299971/"><img alt="[Man Cooking Sausage in Alsatian Food Booth]" title="[Man Cooking Sausage in Alsatian Food Booth]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299971/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a man cooking sausage in the Castroville Alsatian food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an apron and a trucker hat, he is standing next to a grill where long sausages are cooking.</p>[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299972/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299972/"><img alt="[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]" title="[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299972/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of the Krakowiak Polish Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and woman are dancing together side-by-side with their arms around the other's lower back. Their opposite arms are raised in the air. The woman is wearing a knee-length floral skirt, a peasant shirt with an embroidered vest, and knee-high boots. The man is wearing dark pants, a light shirt, and an open embroidered vest.</p>[David Beck in Castroville Alsatian Food Booth]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299973/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299973/"><img alt="[David Beck in Castroville Alsatian Food Booth]" title="[David Beck in Castroville Alsatian Food Booth]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299973/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of David Beck slicing sausage in Castroville Alsatian food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a Castroville trucker hat, a white shirt with a patterned vest, and an apron.</p>[Bob Goebel Serving Sausage on a Stick]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299974/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299974/"><img alt="[Bob Goebel Serving Sausage on a Stick]" title="[Bob Goebel Serving Sausage on a Stick]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299974/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Bob Goebel serving sausage on a stick in the German food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing lederhosen and an alpine hat, he is holding a sausage skewered with a roll.</p>[Two Men Grilling Greek Souvlaki]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299975/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299975/"><img alt="[Two Men Grilling Greek Souvlaki]" title="[Two Men Grilling Greek Souvlaki]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299975/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of two men grilling Greek souvlaki at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The booth is sponsored by St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church in San Antonio. The chicken kabobs are lined up side-by-side on the grill while the two men rotate them to ensure even cooking.</p>[Visitors Trying to Solve Puzzles]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299977/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299977/"><img alt="[Visitors Trying to Solve Puzzles]" title="[Visitors Trying to Solve Puzzles]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299977/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of festival visitors trying to solve Roland Denny's puzzles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A table is covered with groups of cubes about the size of alphabet blocks. Visitors are trying to arrange them in the correct way to reveal an image. Since the cubes have six sides, each group of cubes contains six possible puzzles.</p>[Norwegian Trolls]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299978/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299978/"><img alt="[Norwegian Trolls]" title="[Norwegian Trolls]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299978/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a woman and boy dressed as Norwegian trolls at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are wearing long, grotesque noses and raggedy clothing. Their faces and arms are smeared with mud.</p>[Girl Playing in Hay]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299979/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299979/"><img alt="[Girl Playing in Hay]" title="[Girl Playing in Hay]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299979/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a girl playing in a hay pile at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She has tossed a bunch of hay up in the air and is letting it fall on her head.</p>[Virginia Munroe Holding a Basket She Made]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299980/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299980/"><img alt="[Virginia Munroe Holding a Basket She Made]" title="[Virginia Munroe Holding a Basket She Made]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299980/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Virginia Munroe holding a basket she made at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bonnet and a gingham dress, she is holding a woven basket about the size of a small suitcase.</p>[Virginia Munroe Shaving Wood for a Basket]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299981/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299981/"><img alt="[Virginia Munroe Shaving Wood for a Basket]" title="[Virginia Munroe Shaving Wood for a Basket]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299981/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Virginia Munroe shaving wood to make a basket at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bonnet and a gingham dress, she is straddling a work bench, shaving a piece of wood with a drawknife.</p>[James Ander Caning a Chair]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299982/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299982/"><img alt="[James Ander Caning a Chair]" title="[James Ander Caning a Chair]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299982/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of James Ander weaving caning for chair seats at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Using a wooden frame, he is weaving long, thin bamboo pieces to make a seat bottom that will be attached to a chair. Some festival visitors are watching from the other side of the table.</p>[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299983/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299983/"><img alt="[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]" title="[Krakowiak Polish Dancers Performing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299983/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of two Krakowiak Polish Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two men have their arms locked together and are squatting down on one foot with the other foot pointed out in front of them. They are wearing dark pants, light shirts, and open vests. With their other hands, they are each holding a decorated stick.</p>[Judith Sallee Blowing Whistle]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299984/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299984/"><img alt="[Judith Sallee Blowing Whistle]" title="[Judith Sallee Blowing Whistle]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299984/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Judith Sallee, from Trader's Village in Grand Prairie, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a t-shirt and jeans, she is straddling a wooden bench and blowing into a whistle made from elm bark.</p>[Doug Geich with Whip]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299985/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299985/"><img alt="[Doug Geich with Whip]" title="[Doug Geich with Whip]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299985/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Doug Geich, from Trader's Village in Grand Prairie, holding a whip made from elm bark at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, and a polo shirt with stripes on the arm bands and shoulders.</p>[Bill Sallee Making Whistles]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299986/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299986/"><img alt="[Bill Sallee Making Whistles]" title="[Bill Sallee Making Whistles]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299986/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>[Evelyn Kasper Demonstrating Crochet]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299987/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299987/"><img alt="[Evelyn Kasper Demonstrating Crochet]" title="[Evelyn Kasper Demonstrating Crochet]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299987/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Evelyn Kasper demonstrating crochet in the Wendish booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, sunglasses, a shawl, and a long skirt as she wraps yarn around nails on a board to create a pattern.</p>[Crochet Demonstration]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299988/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299988/"><img alt="[Crochet Demonstration]" title="[Crochet Demonstration]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299988/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of the Crochet demonstration by members of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two elderly women are sitting at a table demonstrating to four children how to crochet. The woman on the left has a little boy in her lap. The woman on the right is working so that three girls standing next to the table can see.</p>[Italian Folk Dancers Performing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299989/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299989/"><img alt="[Italian Folk Dancers Performing]" title="[Italian Folk Dancers Performing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299989/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of the Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers are all children, mostly girls, wearing traditional clothing. The girls are wearing long skirts with aprons and the boys are wearing light-colored shirts and dark pants with cloth belts as they dance around the stage with their hands on their hips.</p>[Claudia Ball with O. T. Baker at Smokehouse]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299990/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299990/"><img alt="[Claudia Ball with O. T. Baker at Smokehouse]" title="[Claudia Ball with O. T. Baker at Smokehouse]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299990/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of festival director Claudia Ball with former director O. T. Baker at the Smokehouse at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Ball is on the left wearing a wide-brim hat and shirt patterned with an old packaging label for "hominy grits." Baker, on the right, is wearing a cowboy hat, big glasses and a button-up shirt.</p>[Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio Performing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299991/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299991/"><img alt="[Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio Performing]" title="[Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio Performing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299991/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of the Italian Folk Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A group of girls dressed in traditional folk dresses are dancing onstage. In the foreground, one girl is holding her skirt as she skips across the stage.</p>[Charles Orlowski Demonstrating Glass Blowing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299992/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299992/"><img alt="[Charles Orlowski Demonstrating Glass Blowing]" title="[Charles Orlowski Demonstrating Glass Blowing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299992/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Fred Huddleston demonstrating glass blowing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a leather cowboy hat, he is holding a bulb of glass on a rod and is blowing air into it through a blow tube.</p>[Fred Huddleston Making Stained Glass]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299993/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299993/"><img alt="[Fred Huddleston Making Stained Glass]" title="[Fred Huddleston Making Stained Glass]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299993/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Fred Huddleston making stained glass at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a baseball cap, a polyester shirt and plaid pants, he is clipping a piece of glass he is holding in his hand. A finished piece of stained glass is laying on the table in front of him.</p>[Steve Hartz Repairing Violin]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299994/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299994/"><img alt="[Steve Hartz Repairing Violin]" title="[Steve Hartz Repairing Violin]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299994/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Steve Hartz, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. With curly hair and a long beard, he is sitting at a work station repairing a part of the violin, which is laying out on the table before him.</p>[Joe Pyle Crafting Glass]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299995/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299995/"><img alt="[Joe Pyle Crafting Glass]" title="[Joe Pyle Crafting Glass]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299995/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Joe Pyle demonstrating glass crafting at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Using a blowtorch, he is bending and twisting a long, thin tube of glass into a squiggly spiral.</p>[Delbert Brewster, Scrimshaw Artist]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299996/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299996/"><img alt="[Delbert Brewster, Scrimshaw Artist]" title="[Delbert Brewster, Scrimshaw Artist]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299996/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Delbert Brewster, scrimshaw artist, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has a mustache and is wearing a cowboy hat, sunglasses, and a plaid shirt. With one leg crossed over the other, he is filing down the surface of a cow horn.</p>[Delbert Brewster Blowing Cow Horn]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299997/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299997/"><img alt="[Delbert Brewster Blowing Cow Horn]" title="[Delbert Brewster Blowing Cow Horn]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299997/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of scrimshaw artist Delbert Brewster blowing a cow horn at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has a mustache and is wearing a cowboy hat, sunglasses, and a plaid shirt. The cow horn has been decorated with scrimshaw engraving.</p>[Catherine Carpenter Making Jelly]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299998/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299998/"><img alt="[Catherine Carpenter Making Jelly]" title="[Catherine Carpenter Making Jelly]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299998/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Catherine Carpenter making jelly in the jelly and preserves booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a peasant blouse, a long skirt, and protective gloves, she is squeezing a bundle of fruit gathered in cloth. The juice is going through a strainer and is gathered in a metal pot.</p>[Female Visitor Sampling Jelly]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299999/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299999/"><img alt="[Female Visitor Sampling Jelly]" title="[Female Visitor Sampling Jelly]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299999/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a female festival visitor trying a sample in the jelly and preserves booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and glasses, she is tasting a sample from a spoon.</p>[Young Visitor Sampling Jelly]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300000/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300000/"><img alt="[Young Visitor Sampling Jelly]" title="[Young Visitor Sampling Jelly]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300000/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a light-haired boy being spoon-fed a sample of jelly by a woman at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is leaning over the jelly and preserves booth, directly in front of three mason jars of jelly and preserves, as well as a bowl of sample spoons.</p>[Helen Oats Pouring a Drink]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300001/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300001/"><img alt="[Helen Oats Pouring a Drink]" title="[Helen Oats Pouring a Drink]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300001/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Helen Oats, director of Texas Czechs in Review-Moravian Beseda dancers from Dallas, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an embroidered white peasant blouse with ornate trim and a fitted vest, she is pouring a beverage from a ceramic flask into a small teacup.</p>[Boy Looking at Two Chickens]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300002/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300002/"><img alt="[Boy Looking at Two Chickens]" title="[Boy Looking at Two Chickens]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300002/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a boy looking at two chickens in the Alamo Poultry Club exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a striped polo shirt and shorts, the dark-haired boy is standing on the left, looking at a cage on the right containing two chickens. He has a big smile on his face.</p>[Sokol Zizka Gym Team Performing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300003/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300003/"><img alt="[Sokol Zizka Gym Team Performing]" title="[Sokol Zizka Gym Team Performing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300003/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Sokol Zizka, a Czech gym team from Dallas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Young gymnasts are lined up doing somersaults down a mat, one after another. In the foreground at the end of the mat, a girl is just coming out of a somersault, rolling off the mat and onto the grass.</p>[Cruz Marquez, Sheep Shearer]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300004/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300004/"><img alt="[Cruz Marquez, Sheep Shearer]" title="[Cruz Marquez, Sheep Shearer]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300004/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Cruz Marquez demonstrating sheep shearing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. With the help of another man, he is laying a sheep down on a small stage so that he can shear off its wool. He is wearing a cowboy hat, striped shirt, chaps, and boots. Several spectators are visible in the background.</p>[Cruz Marquez Tying Sheep's Legs]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300005/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300005/"><img alt="[Cruz Marquez Tying Sheep's Legs]" title="[Cruz Marquez Tying Sheep's Legs]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300005/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Cruz Marquez demonstrating sheep shearing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is kneeling down on a platform, tying a sheep's legs together so he can shear it. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a striped shirt, and chaps. Several spectators are visible in the background.</p>[Cruz Marquez Shearing a Sheep]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300006/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300006/"><img alt="[Cruz Marquez Shearing a Sheep]" title="[Cruz Marquez Shearing a Sheep]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300006/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Cruz Marquez demonstrating sheep shearing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is straddling a sheep that is laying on a platform, shearing wool off of its head. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a striped shirt, and chaps. Several spectators are visible in the background.</p>[Cruz Marquez Shearing Leg of a Sheep]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300007/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300007/"><img alt="[Cruz Marquez Shearing Leg of a Sheep]" title="[Cruz Marquez Shearing Leg of a Sheep]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300007/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Cruz Marquez demonstrating sheep shearing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is squatting next to a sheep that is laying on a platform, shearing wool off of its leg. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a striped shirt, and chaps. Several spectators are visible in the background.</p>[Cruz Marquez Sheep Shearing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300008/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300008/"><img alt="[Cruz Marquez Sheep Shearing]" title="[Cruz Marquez Sheep Shearing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300008/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Cruz Marquez demonstrating sheep shearing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is bending over next to a sheep that is laying on a platform, shearing wool off of its body. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a striped shirt, and chaps. Several spectators are visible in the background.</p>[Girl Sitting Next to Sheep]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300009/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300009/"><img alt="[Girl Sitting Next to Sheep]" title="[Girl Sitting Next to Sheep]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300009/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a young girl sitting next to a sheep in the sheep exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is sitting on hay inside the pen with her arm on the sheep's back. The sheep, which has just been sheared, is laying peacefully in the hay.</p>[Girl Climbing Belgian Mast]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300010/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300010/"><img alt="[Girl Climbing Belgian Mast]" title="[Girl Climbing Belgian Mast]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300010/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a girl climbing a Belgian mast at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The mast is a tall skinny tree trunk that has had all the limbs removed so that it resembles a pole.</p>[Man Chopping Wood for Log Kitchen]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300011/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300011/"><img alt="[Man Chopping Wood for Log Kitchen]" title="[Man Chopping Wood for Log Kitchen]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300011/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a man chopping wood for the log kitchen construction at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Shirtless and standing on a log, the man is chopping the piece of wood with an axe.</p>[Boy Learning About Muzzleloaders]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300012/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300012/"><img alt="[Boy Learning About Muzzleloaders]" title="[Boy Learning About Muzzleloaders]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300012/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>[Boys Playing Wheelbarrow Game]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300013/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300013/"><img alt="[Boys Playing Wheelbarrow Game]" title="[Boys Playing Wheelbarrow Game]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300013/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of a blindfolded boy pushing another boy in a wheel barrow in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy riding is directing the blindfolded boy to push the wheelbarrow through a wooden arch. A young man is standing next to them to provide additional assistance.</p>[Dancers Onstage with Wurstfest Opa Band]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300014/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300014/"><img alt="[Dancers Onstage with Wurstfest Opa Band]" title="[Dancers Onstage with Wurstfest Opa Band]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300014/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of two couples dancing onstage with the Wurstfest Opa Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dancing side-by-side, the men are wearing lederhosen and the women are wearing peasant dresses.</p>[Children Riding Artificial Horse]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300015/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300015/"><img alt="[Children Riding Artificial Horse]" title="[Children Riding Artificial Horse]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300015/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of four children pretending to ride on an artificial horse in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The horse is tied next to a tree and has circles painted around its eyes. The girl in the front is wearing a striped shirt and a bucket hat. Three more girls are sitting behind her.</p>[Jack Pirtle, Whitling Instructor]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300016/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300016/"><img alt="[Jack Pirtle, Whitling Instructor]" title="[Jack Pirtle, Whitling Instructor]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300016/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Jack Pirtle, whittling instructor from Cherokee County, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has curly hair and a mustache, and is wearing round glasses and a t-shirt that says, "Whittling is fun!"</p>[Juan Martinez Demonstrating Roof Thatching]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300017/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300017/"><img alt="[Juan Martinez Demonstrating Roof Thatching]" title="[Juan Martinez Demonstrating Roof Thatching]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300017/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of Juan Martinez, from Laredo, demonstrating roof thatching at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt, he is leaning over a bamboo frame with his hand on small bundles of straw that have been stacked and tied to the frame.</p>[Hugh Vaughn Carving Wood on a Lathe]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300018/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300018/"><img alt="[Hugh Vaughn Carving Wood on a Lathe]" title="[Hugh Vaughn Carving Wood on a Lathe]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300018/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of chairmaker, Hugh Vaughn, carving wood on a lathe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A cylinder of wood is spinning on the lathe while Vaughn holds a carving tool to it, making wood chips fly. He has straight hair and a full beard.</p>[El Campo German Dancers Performing]2013-04-02T19:26:09-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300019/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300019/"><img alt="[El Campo German Dancers Performing]" title="[El Campo German Dancers Performing]" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth300019/small/"/></a></p><p>Photograph of the El Campo German Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, a young man wearing lederhosen is twirling around a girl in a peasant-style dress. Other couples twirling onstage are visible in the background.</p>