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[Philippine Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of a Philippine Dance Ensemble performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The men are wearing rolled up pants and loose shirts. Two women are wearing long white dresses with big sleeves while two other women are wearing white blouses and striped skirts. One man is kneeling down, arranging plates on the stage. Another man is stepping on the plates and holding a glass in each hand.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Philippine Dancer Performing with Cups and Plates]

Description: Photograph of a Philippine Dance Ensemble performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man wearing rolled up pants is stepping on plates while balancing a glass cup on his head. A female dancer is to the left, wearing a long white dress with big, puffy sleeves. Two other male dancers are visible.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Irish Girl Dancing]

Description: Photograph of a young Irish dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a short skirt, and a cropped jacket with lace trim, she is dancing with her hands at her side. She has curly blond hair. Other dancers are visible onstage behind her.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Two Girls Performing Irish Dance]

Description: Photograph of two young girls performing an Irish dance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing short skirts, cropped jackets, and laced up dance shoes, they are dancing side by side. The girl on the left is holding the hand of the girl on the right, leading her around to the front.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Two Women Performing Irish Dance]

Description: Photograph of two women performing an Irish dance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing knee-length skirts, cropped jackets with lace trim, and dark pantyhose, they are dancing side by side with their hands joined and raised between them.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Bruce Montague Lassoing a Small Boy]

Description: Photograph of Bruce Montague lassoing a small boy at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dressed as a cowboy the boy is standing on a circular platform. His arms, chest and legs are constrained, each with a different loop of the rope. In the right foreground, Montague is leaning forward to toss another lasso around the boy.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Jack F. "Spot" Baird Holding Tattered Umbrella]

Description: Photograph of Jack F. "Spot" Baird, Professor of Possumology at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a safari hat, a patterned shirt, and overalls, he is holding up a tattered umbrella. An antique camera is hanging around his neck. In place of a flash, a candle is attached to the top of it.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Steve Hartz Playing Violin with Kirk Hunter]

Description: Photograph of Steve Hartz, from Old Time String Shop, playing violin with a member of Lone Star Fiddlers outside of Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing overalls, Hartz is on the left while Kirk Hunter, wearing a poet shirt and a straw hat, is on the right. They are sitting in an area surrounded by tables of stringed instruments containing guitars, banjos, and mandolins.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Storytellers Performing Onstage]

Description: Photograph of Paul Patterson, Allen Damron, Guich Koock, and Ace Reid telling stories onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Patterson is on the left sitting in a tall wooden chair, while Damron and Koock are in the center sitting on a square hay bale. Damron is playing a guitar while Koock holds a microphone up to his face. Reid is on the right, sitting in a rocking chair. Everyone except Damron is wearing a cowboy hat and boots. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wo… more
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Festival Visitors Berm Sliding]

Description: Photograph of several festival visitors berm sliding at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Scattered about on a steep hill, they are using panels of cardboard to slide down. In front of the hill is a broad walkway where several visitors are milling about.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Man Making Barbecue]

Description: Photograph of a man cooking barbecue in the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a straw hat and an apron, he is tending to the meat on the grill. In the foreground, large cuts of cooked meat are on cooling on a rack.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Wence Shimek Polka Band]

Description: Photograph of the Wence Shimek Polka Band, from Lavaca County, performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Starting from the left there is a clarinet player named Louis (denoted on his music stand), a guitarist, Wence singing at center stage, a drummer in the background, and another guitarist on the right. All members are male except for the guitarist on the right. The back of the music stand in front of her reads, "Helen." A sign on the right reads, "Wence Shimek a… more
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Couple Dancing to Wence Shimek Polka Band]

Description: Photograph of a couple dancing to the music of Wence Shimek Polka Band, from Lavaca County, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Both of them are wearing plaid shirts and dark pants, and the man is wearing a cowboy hat. The band is partially visible onstage in the background.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Nancy Lou Webster Making Treenware]

Description: Photograph of Nancy Lou Webster, from Elgin, making treenware at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing black frame glasses, she is sitting at a work surface with a piece of wood held in a vise. Using a hammer and chisel, she is shaping the piece of wood.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]
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