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[Jo Ann Andera with Hans Mark and Others]

Description: Photograph of festival director Jo Ann Andera with U.T. Chancellor Hans Mark, Lt. General John McGiffert, and two others at the Texas Folklife Festival. Starting from the left is a man dressed in western clothes. He is wearing red jeans, an orange shirt, a navy vest, a red bandana, a brown leather gun holster with a pistol, and a tan cowboy hat. He also has a white beard. Standing to the right of him is Andera, wearing a white cotton dress. To the right of her is Mark, the tallest of the group,… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Preparing Pico de Gallo]

Description: Photograph of a woman preparing pico de gallo in the Mexican food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has short, dark, curly hair and is wearing glasses, a white dress with a colorful embroidered floral pattern on the chest, and an apron. She is mixing a brown ceramic bowl of pico de gallo. In front of her on the counter is a cutting board with sliced tomatoes on it, and a small bunch of cilantro. The counter is covered with a mexican-style table cloth, striped with colors of yellow, pink… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Doris Riedel Making Soap]

Description: Photograph of Doris Riedel making lye soap at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a maroon pioneer dress and a blue apron, and sitting in a chair to the right of a cauldron hanging from a tripod over a coal fire. She is stirring the cauldron with a large wooden stick. A large pile of wood is behind her in the middle ground of the photograph. In the background, crowds of festival visitors are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Irish Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of Irish dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Two lines of three dancers each are onstage facing each other. Each line has two women and a man in the center, the three holding hands. They are kicking up their feet and one woman is actually pictured mid-air. Directly to the left, two dancers are standing and clapping. A colorful shade canopy hangs overhead.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Frontier Soldier Shoeing a Horse]

Description: Photograph of a frontier soldier reenactor at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is dressed in period clothing: blue pants, a white shirt, suspenders and a black, wide-brimmed hat with a yellow cord around the base of the crown. He is bending over holding the back hoof of a dark brown horse up over his lap. In the background, a white horse and a stone house are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dorceal Duckens Performing with the Duckens Family]

Description: Photograph of Dorceal Duckens performing with the Duckens Family Singers at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a white and brown African-inspired shirt, as he grips the microphone with one hand and waves to the crowd with the other. He has a goatee and is smiling. Behind him, other members of the group are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Female Reenactors in Costume Doing Laundry]

Description: Photograph of USAA volunteers portraying fort laundresses at the Texas Folklife Festival. The two women are dressed in pioneer clothing, kneeling down at a silver wash bucket pretending to do laundry. The woman on the left is wearing a blue dress with red-checkered trim and a red-checkered apron. The woman on the right is wearing a gray blouse and white skirt. Both of their bonnets are not being worn but instead tied around their necks. They are part of a larger scene of reenactors, some of who… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Le P'tit Blanc Performing]

Description: Photograph of Le P'tit Blanc performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group of musicians are seated onstage. In the right foreground, a man is standing at a microphone playing a recorder. Sitting to the left of him is an accordion player, then a violinist, then a man playing an instrument similar to a guitar but with a teardrop-shaped body. Finally to the left of him is a woman seated with a drum on the ground in front of her. Behind them, red and orange streamers decorate the back of the s… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Clark Making Shingles]

Description: Photograph of Bill Clark making shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is straddling a wooden work bench shaving a flat piece of wood with a drawknife. He is wearing glasses, a straw cowboy hat, a brown shirt, and overalls.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Alamo Bobbin Lacers Making Lace]

Description: Photograph of Sue Daeschner, of the Alamo Bobbin Lacers, making lace at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting on the right in the foreground with a large round cushion on the table in front of her. The piece that she is working on is attached to the cushion. She is using several bobbins to make the design, about 25 or so, each loaded with purple string. They are roughly the size and shape of pencils. The string from each bobbin has already been worked into the lace, and she is crossing th… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[The Norman Sisters Singing Onstage]

Description: Photograph of the Norman Sisters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four female singers are standing onstage holding microphones and singing. The singer in the foreground is wearing a yellow blouse, yellow earrings, and a scarf around her waist. She is singing passionately with her eyes closed. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the stage.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Anne Marrou Speaking to Visitors at a Chuckwagon]

Description: Photograph of Anne Marrou at a chuck wagon speaking to festival visitors at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a purple pioneer dress with a matching bonnet, facing the visitors who are on the right. On display on the chuck wagon's fold down table are three different kinds of rope, an antique rolling pin and wooden bowl, an iron rod, and a few types of barbed wire. Other festival booths are visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Three People Spinning Rope]

Description: Photograph of Johnny Neal, Agnes Neal, and Rowdy Pate making rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. The rope is strung between two vices, one attached to a pole on the right and one that Johnny Neal is holding on the left. On the right, Rowdy Pate is trying to untie a knot in one of the ropes. Agnes is standing in the middle, assisting him.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Johnny Neal and Rowdy Pate Making Rope]

Description: Photograph of Johnny Neal, and Rowdy Pate making rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. Pate is on the right, tying off the rope on a spinning contraption that Neal, standing to the left, is holding. Both men are wearing cowboy hats and button up shirts. Pate is also wearing a dark-colored vest and glasses.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy Riding on Plane Swing]

Description: Photograph of a boy on a tree swing in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. The wooden swing has been made to look like an airplane. The boy is in full swing, holding on to the handles built into the plane. The tree trunk is visible on the right. Behind the boy swinging, another boy stands and watches.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Flemish Folk Dancers Peforming]

Description: Photograph of Flemish folk dancers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are divided into four groups of four, each group consisting of two girls and two boys. Each group is dancing around in a counterclockwise circle, their left hands joined in the middle. The girls are wearing long dresses, aprons and bonnets. The boys are wearing cropped pants that stop just under the knee, white knee-high socks, and white shirts.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two members of Cajun Playboys]

Description: Photograph of two members of the Cajun playboys performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A violinist is on the right standing next to a microphone and wearing a flat cap, suspenders, and pin-stripe pants. He is smiling at the camera. Next to him on the left is a man wearing a washboard on his chest. Hanging on his ear is a spoon used to play the washboard.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Blacksmith Shaping Metal]

Description: Photograph of blacksmith Al Morgan shaping a piece of metal at the Texas Folklife Festival. Using a hammer and chisel, he is working on a piece of metal atop an anvil. Several tools are visible on the work surface in front of him. A man is standing on the left, looking over his shoulder. The forge is visible a few feet behind Morgan.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Spinning and Weaving]

Description: Photograph of a woman weaving on a small table-top loom at the Texas Folklife Festival. Numerous threads are strung throughout the loom. The woman is standing on the right side of the loom, handling the threads. She is wearing an apron and a bandana wrapped around her forehead.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Patsy Anderson Making Bobbin Lace]

Description: Photograph of Patsy Anderson making bobbin lace at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting down with a cushion in her lap. The piece that she is working on is attached to the cushion. She is using several bobbins to make the design, about 25 or so, each loaded with string. They are roughly the size and shape of pencils. The string from each bobbin has already been worked into the lace, and she is crossing them over one another to carefully weave the intricate design. Another woman making bo… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Houston Romanian Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Houston Romanian Dancers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. A line of dancers are side-by-side, hands joined at shoulder level. Four women are on the left and four men are on the right, all dressed in traditional clothing. The women are wearing tea-length layered skirts, peasant blouses, and head scarves. The men are wearing long tunics tied at the waist with sashes, pants, boots, and Russian-style fur hats. Some audience members are visible in the left backgro… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ukranian Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Ten female dancers are lined up onstage side-by-side holding hands in a criss-cross fashion. They are all kicking their right leg out in front of them. Their costumes are traditional folkwear: peasant blouses, floral skirts, aprons, headbands made of flowers, and knee-high boots. Attached to the back of the headbands are long ribbons.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Male Dancer of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas Performing]

Description: Photograph of one of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is leaning back on his right hand, kicking his legs out in front of him toward the crowd which is on the right side of the photograph. He is wearing a light-colored shirt, loose, flowing pants, and boots. Behind him onstage, a line of female dancers is partially visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing Performing with Live Music]

Description: Photograph of dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are paired off into two couples, each partner dancing across from one another with their hands at their side. They are all wearing modern-day clothing except one man who is wearing a kilt and knee-high socks. Behind them on a stage, a band is playing music while they dance.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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