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[Elsie the Cow on Display]

Description: Photograph of Elsie the Cow making an appearance at the 9th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Elsie has a necklace of daisies around her neck and a red blanket on her back. Festival participants rest their hands on the sides of her elaborate stall.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim

[Elsie the Cow on Display]

Description: Photograph of Elsie the Cow at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Elsie, a tan-colored cow with white daisies around her neck, is part of a milking exhibit within the festival. Festival participants crowd around the cow and pet her from around the wooden barriers.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Expresiones Argentinas]

Description: Photograph of Expresiones Argentinas, a percussion group, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man wearing a blue poncho with yellow and orange embroidery supports a drum strapped across his chest. He plays the drum on a grey stage underneath a blue canopy.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]

[Face Painting]

Description: Photograph of face painting activities at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man holds a young girl with her face painted to look like a clown: red circles on her cheeks, blue paint around her lips, and black lines extending out from her eyes contribute to her expression.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Feather Plucking]

Description: Photograph of Madeline Witteben plucking a goose at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Madeline sits in a chair with the goose in her lap. Two small boys touch the goose as Madeline works.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Felicita Sosa Making Tortillas]

Description: Photograph of Felicita Sosa making tortillas at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Felicita wears a red shirt and a blue skirt with an apron tied around her waist. Her hands are emerged in a bowl of dough, mixing the ingredients required of tortilla making.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim

[Felipe de Jesus Garza Performance]

Description: Photograph of Felipe de Jesus Garza performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Felipe wears a large sombrero with gold trim, a khaki jacket with red trim, red pants, and a red and white polka-dotted tie. He performs on a grey stage with a blue canopy in front of a large crowd of festival participants.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]

[Festival Volunteer M. Lopez]

Description: Photograph of M. Lopez at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Lopez, a volunteer in the Mexican Cantina, wears a white shirt and pants with a large sombrero on his head. He sits between two tables, facing another festival volunteer to the left.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Fiddle Practice]

Description: Photograph of a fiddler practicing in the Old Time String Shop at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The fiddler wears a red and blue plaid shirt with a black cowboy hat. A man wearing a red shirt with a red hat sits on a table behind the fiddler, watching him play.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Fiddler Arnold Griffin]

Description: Photograph of Arnold Griffin of the Devine Music Makers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Arnold wears a straw hat, a brown leather vest, and a shirt made of various colorful patches. He holds the violin tight to his neck as he plays.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Fiesta City Chorus]

Description: Photograph of Sally Whiskemann directing the Fiesta City Chorus, a chapter of the Sweet Adelines International, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Sally wears a white dress with a multicolored belt. The women in the chorus wear blue and pink dresses as they sing on a wide row of steps.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]

[Filipino and San Antonio Dancers]

Description: Photograph of a dance performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Both the San Antonio Dancers and the Filipino Dancers take the stage together. The San Antonio Dancers wear dresses with checkered aprons and big hats, while the Filipino dancers wear long sleeve shirts with light-colored pants and handkerchiefs tied around their necks.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Fire-Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a fire-making demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man is resting on his knees, leaning over a pile of kindling and instructing a young girl on how to start a fire. Festival participants watch the demonstration, standing and sitting around the grassy area.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim

[Flamenco dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of members of the Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio dancing Flamenco at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Several women,wearing blue and green tops and long skirts, with many ruffles along the sleeves and hem, dance for festival participants. They wear white ribbons in their hair and white bandannas around their necks.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Flo Baca Holding a Child]

Description: Photograph of Flo Baca of the Gil Baca Czech Band holding a child in her arms after a musical performance. Flo wears a traditional Czech costume consisting of a bonnet, scarf, and white shirt with puffy sleeves. Each piece has intricate embroidery on it.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Folk Dancing Performance]

Description: Photograph of Mexican folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman stands in the center of the stage wearing an orange dress with layers of ribbon along the bodice and skirt. She holds the hand of her dance partner high in the air as they dance for festival participants.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Folk Dancing Performers]

Description: Photograph of Mexican folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman stands in the center of the stage wearing an orange dress with layers of ribbon along the bodice and skirt. Her skirt flies high in the air, obscuring the view of the dancers behind her. Her partner stands to her left, wearing a bolero, black pants, boots, hat, and a gold belt.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Frank Hendricks Demonstrating Engraving]

Description: Photograph of Frank Hendricks engraving a gun at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Frank wears a striped shirt, jeans, and a leather belt as he leans over the engraving machine, delicately working on a piece of metal to demonstrate the technique for festival participants.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Frontier Playland]

Description: Photograph of children playing in the Frontier Playland section of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Several children play on a handmade see-saw secured to the rough logs that make-up the fence around the playland.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
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