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[Woman Doing Calligraphy]

Description: Photograph of a woman doing Calligraphy at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting at a drafting table writing a word with a thick felt-tip pen. On the table there is a sign that reads, "Your name lettered." She is wearing a white, peasant-style blouse and has short, dark hair.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Karen Wayne in Bathtub with Visitor]

Description: Photograph of Karen Wayne, member of the Fort Worth Pod of the Chili Appreciation Society International, sitting in a tub with a festival visitor at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is on the left wearing striped overalls and holding an open umbrella. The man is on the right, shirtless, and drinking out of a cup.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Cecil Overstreet in Front of Chimney]

Description: Photograph of Cecil Overstreet, chimney maker from Kountze, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat, black frame glasses and a button up shirt. Behind him is a log cabin with a pioneer-style chimney. A sign hanging on the chimney says, "Cecil Overstreet, Chimney Maker, Kountze."
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
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[John Collins dressed as Judge Roy Bean]

Description: Photograph of John Collins as Judge Roy Bean talking to children at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a black hat with a tall round crown, a leather vest, a light-colored shirt, a bandana, and jeans. He is holding a rifle across his lap and is talking to a boy standing on the left. Standing on the right is a little girl. In the background, the side of a log cabin is visible.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Entrance Gate 4]

Description: Photograph of entrance gate 4 at the Texas Folklife Festival. People are lined up waiting to get into the festival. Festival staff are taking tickets at the turnstiles. A poster advertising the 1978 festival is hanging on the fence.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Woman Demonstrating How to Make Cascarones]

Description: Photograph of a woman demonstrating how to make cascarones at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is standing in a booth decorated with red, green and white garland, and several different piñatas. Rows of colorful cascarones (confetti-filled eggs) with tiny cone-shaped party hats are lined up on the table in front of the woman. Two signs, one for cascarones and one for piñatas, are hanging across the top of the booth.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Voices of the Mainland]

Description: Photograph of Voices of the Mainland performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The group is five African-American men: one drummer and four singers, one of which is also playing guitar. Three singers are standing in a row behind microphone stands and one is out in front, holding the microphone in his hand. The drummer is in the back, next to a piano.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Ameleb Lebanese Dancer with Tambourine]

Description: Photograph of an Ameleb Club Lebanese dancer dancing with a tambourine at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has shoulder-length brown curly hair and is wearing a violet belly dancing outfit as she holds the tambourine out in front of her. Other Ameleb Club dancers are visible in the background.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Man Working on Sculpture]

Description: Photograph of artist Jim Thomas with his "Goat Lady" sculpture at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting to the left of it, working on an area at the bottom of her dress. The sculpture appears to be made of wax and is about two feet tall. It is fixed to a small square wooden table. Thomas is wearing a white t-shirt and jeans.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Boy Using Manual Drill]

Description: Photograph of a boy drilling a hole in a log as part of the log house construction at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is using a manual drill that looks like a large corkscrew with wooden handles at the top. With a good amount of effort, he is attempting to rotate the handles and drive the corkscrew into the log to carve out a hole. He has blonde hair and is wearing a navy striped t-shirt and jeans.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Young Lebanese Girl Dancing]

Description: Photograph of Nadine Mery, a young Ameleb Club Lebanese dancer, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has long dark hair and is wearing a red belly dancing outfit as she dances onstage, moving her hips and waving her arms and hands around in a fluid motion. Spectators are watching from beside the stage, including some men in uniform.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Girl Making Pasta Necklace]

Description: Photograph of a young girl making a necklace out of raw pasta in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting on the table holding up a string of colorful rigatoni noodles. She is wearing a completed noodle necklace, a white tank top with red, blue, and yellow trim and matching shorts. Behind her, other children are seated at the table making necklaces; a few woman are standing around them.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Girl on See-Saw]

Description: Photograph of a girl sitting on a see-saw in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. The see-saw is made of a raw branch of wood and a flat panel with a handle. Only her end is visible. She is wearing a large red hat with a wide brim and a yellow patterned dress repeating the word, "Love."
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Person Climbing a Belgian Mast]

Description: Photograph of a person climbing a Belgian Mast, which is a greased pole, at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are nearing the top of the wooden pole where a bell is tied. A crowd of festival visitors are gathered around to watch. In the background a sign saying, "Belgian" is hanging on the outside of a booth that is colored red, yellow and black.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Woman at Spinning Wheel]

Description: Photograph of Ruffin Hill, from Austin, operating a spinning wheel at the Texas Folklife Festival. The wheel is in the foreground and Hill is sitting at a chair on the other side of it, in the middle ground. She is pulling a string of spun fiber out and is showing it to a little girl. Another little girl is on the right, holding a piece of thread.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Man Working on Woodcarving]

Description: Photograph of artist Charles Davis working on a woodcarving at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is leaning over a long panel of wood from which he is carving a landscape scene. The panel is lying on top of a work bench and is angled at forty five degrees. Davis is wearing a dark-colored cowboy hat, a light blue shirt, and jeans.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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