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[Boy Learns About Driving Railroad Spikes]

Slide of the Transportation Museum of San Antonio area at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are two boys present, one of whom is holding a tool that he is using to drive railroad spikes into a section of railroad behind the boys. There are two men to the right of the boys, one of whom is overseeing the boys.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Harry Schneider Drawing Caricatures]

Slide of Joe Bowman, a precision fast draw expert from Houston, Texas, dressed as a cowboy and holding a gun in each hand so as to strike a pose. Harry Schneider is drawing a caricature of Bowman in this position. Behind Bowman is a variety of caricatures clothes pinned on a netting. . This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Tinsmith Displaying Metal Crafts]

Slide of Emil P. "Shiney" Schanua (left) is a tinsmith from Fredericksburg, Texas and he is exhibiting the items he crafts at the Texas Folklife Festival. His wife, Norma, is standing in the foreground at a counter that has numerous items made of tin. Emil is in the background at another counter that has the tools that he uses in his trade.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Frying Hush Puppies]

Slide of Johanna Olander Wimberly from Austin, Texas frying hush puppies made from meal from a grist mill at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is standing in the background next to two deep fryers. Behind the fryers is a table with bowls, pots and so on. In front of Wimberly's booth is a table where a young girl is waiting for hush puppies. Behind the booth is a large sign advertising Wimberly's hush puppies.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Standing Near Knick Knacks]

Slide of a woman in a booth at the Texas Folklife Festival that is filled with knickknacks. To her left are stick horses and in front of her are small figurines. In the background, there are other displays and tents with their own attractions.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Chuckwagon Food Booth and Cowboy Kisses]

Slide of the Chuckwagon food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Richard Bolt (center) is the cook from Pitchfork Ranch in Guthrie, Texas and is selling food with the same recipes. There are also cowboys on the far left waiting for girls to request their free cowboy kiss.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Demonstration with Spinning Equipment and Wood Turnings]

Slide of David Larremore and a visitor in his booth using spinning equipment and wood turnings at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are three men in the picture, two of whom are hunched over using the spinning equipment.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Demonstration Using a Froe and Mallet]

Slide of Bill Lindig using a froe and mallet to turn logs into shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival. There is a log standing on a stump and Lindig is hammering a froe into the log to shave shingles out of it. There are scattered spectators behind him and a pile of shingles in front.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Robert Goebel Holding Up German Sausage in New Braunfels Wurstfest Booth]

Slide of the New Braunfels Wurstfest food booth where Robert "Bob" Goebel, dressed in German attire, holds up a sausage on a stick with a bun skewered on top at the Texas Folklife Festival. In front of him are many more plain sausages on sticks. There is cooked sausage directly in front of him in an aluminum pan while the rest are cooking.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[New Braunfels Wurstfest Food Booth]

Slide of servers of the New Braunfels Wurstfest food booth serving two female customers German sausage on a stick. The server is extending both hands, one to give the customers their food and the other to take their tickets as payment. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Tossing Pizza Dough in the Air]

Slide of Ron Bird throwing pizza dough in the Italian food Booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The dough is flying midair but Bird is ready to catch it. In front of him is a table with a sign on the front advertising their booth. On top of it are two containers, one holding tomato sauce. In the background there is a girl operating the ovens for the pizzas.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[4-H Clubs of Medina County Sponsored Corn Crib]

Slide of 4-H Clubs of Medina County sponsored a corn crib, which was used to dry and store corn. On the left is a crowd of people facing three people in the background. On the left is a girl sitting on a structure built with logs. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cooking in the World's Largest Gumbo Pot]

Slide of chicken and sausage gumbo being cooked in a 450 gallon pot. W.T. Oliver (right) using a long handled utensil to show the photographer the ingredients of the gumbo. This was taken at the Cajun Country area of the Texas Folklife Festival.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Swiss Food Booth]

Slide of a Swiss food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth was sponsored by Nadler's Bakery and Delicatessen in San Antonio, Texas. The people working in the booth are wearing Swiss garbs and there are also many people lined up to order food.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[German Kitchen Craft]

Slide of Cynthia North molding baker's clay to demonstrate German kitchen craft at the Texas Folklife Festival. North is in the foreground with a young girl to her left who is also molding clay and to North's right are many finished crafts in baskets. In front of North is a table covered in large mixing bowls, a hand mixer, a rolling pin and other kitchen gadgets.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bob Gallaway Take Silk Screening Orders]

Slide of Bob Gallaway's booth at the Texas Folklife Festival that offers silk screening on shirts. He and his wife, Liz Gallaway, run the booth and are from San Antonio. In the image, Bob Gallaway is taking an order for a shirt from a woman.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Display of Guns by the Alamo Muzzle Loading Gun Club]

Slide of the Alamo Muzzle Loading Gun Club displaying period guns on large boards. There are two people behind a table who are in the club, one is a woman in period clothing and a man with a large gun resting on his shoulder. In front of them is a table with various samples of ammunition and there is a group of boys observing the display. The club set up their display at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Frontier Children's Toyland Booth]

Photograph of the Frontier Children's Toyland booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth is displaying pioneer era toys. A sign at the top of the booth reads, "Children's Frontier Toyland, Games, Puppets, Hay Wagon". On the left side of the booth a few women and children are gathered, talking to the booth workers. On the right side, toys are laid out on a table. In the background, a hay wagon and other festival booths are visible.

Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Demonstrating Historic Toy]

Photograph of historic toys at Frontier Children's Toyland and Barnyard at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground a woman is demonstrating a wooden toy contraption comprised of many small figures and wooden parts. One figurine appears to be playing a drum. In the background, other tables are displaying an array of antique toys.

Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sign for Corn Shucking and Shelling Demonstrations]

Photograph of a sign informing festival visitors that the corn shucking and shelling demonstrations occur every fifteen minutes at the Texas Folklife Festival. The sign is written on notebook paper and safety pinned to the back of a young girl's shirt. The girl is wearing pioneer clothng, and has her back to the camera.

Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sugar Cane Mill]

Photograph of Travis W. Kuykendall operating a sugar cane mill at the Texas Folklife Festival. The mill is powered by two horses walking in a circle. The horses are attached to a big log which rotates as they walk. The log is attached to the grinding mechanism which grinds the sugar cane into sugar. Strings of pennant flags decorate the area. A man is standing with the horses and another man is at the grinder, putting in the sugar cane. Kuykendall is walking toward the horses from the right. In… more

Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Demonstrating Syrup Cooking Furnace]

Photograph of a man giving a demonstration of his syrup cooking furnace at the Texas Folklife Festival. The furnace is underneath a small wooden pavilion on which a sign is posted that reads, "Syrup Cooker". A crowd of about thirteen or so visitors is gathered at the front of the pavilion, listening to the man talk about his syrup cooker. The cooker itself is made of stone with a furnace and small chimney. Above the furnace is a rectangular trough which holds the syrup.

Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman in Pioneer Food Booth]

Photograph of Roberta Griffin, from Devine, in the pioneer food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in a pioneer dress and bonnet, helping a few festival visitors that have come up to the booth. At the top of the booth, a sign reads, "Syrup Sopping". Other signs are displayed around the booth listing the different foods that are for sale, including popcorn balls, taffy, peanut brittle, gingersnaps, and hot biscuits. A few if these items are displayed on the front table of the b… more

Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Soap Making Demonstration]

Photograph of Evelyn Johnson, from Mesquite, explaining how to make lye soap in the pioneer lye soap booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in a pioneer bonnet and hat, holding two glass jars. In front of her are two large ceramic mixing bowls containing ingredients for soap making.

Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

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