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[Doug Geich with Whip]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Evelyn Kasper Demonstrating Crochet]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Delbert Brewster, Scrimshaw Artist]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Catherine Carpenter Making Jelly]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Female Visitor Sampling Jelly]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Cruz Marquez Tying Sheep's Legs]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Bill Clayton and Pat Thatcher at Opening Ceremonies]

Description: Photograph of Texas House Speaker Bill Clayton with ITC exhibit floor manager, Pat Thatcher, at the Texas Folklife Festival opening ceremony. Clayton is on the right, standing next to a few other men. Thatcher is standing just to the left of him, wearing a dress from the early 20th century and a wide-brimmed hat decorated with flowers.
Date: August 2, 1979
Creator: Informedia

[Alamo City Highlanders Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Alamo City Highlanders performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band members are standing in a circle, with the band leader in the center. Everyone is in Highland dress and playing a bagpipe. The band leader is wearing a traditional feather bonnet and holding a baton.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Young Singer on Gospel Stage]

Description: Photograph of a young blonde boy singing on the gospel stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a t-shirt and jeans, he is standing at a microphone, holding a clapping monkey with cymbals. A drum set and a guitar player are visible behind him.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Visitors Trying to Solve Puzzles]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Steve Hartz Repairing Violin]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[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

[Children Riding Artificial Horse]

Description: 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.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Devine Music Makers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Devine Music Makers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all sitting in front of a log cabin wall where a collection of guitars are hanging. Sitting on the left is a man playing electric violin. In the middle, a man is playing acoustic guitar, and on the right is an older man playing electric guitar. In the foreground, the back of a tube amp is visible.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Trumpet Player from Boerne Village Band]

Description: Photograph of a trumpet player of the Boerne Village Band performing at the Texas Folklife festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is an elderly man, sitting in the foreground and wearing black frame glasses and a short-sleeved white shirt. In the middle ground a trombone player and a tuba player are visible. Many festival visitors are visible in the background.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
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