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[Costumed Hostesses in Gilmer Yamboree Booth]

Photograph of three costumed hostesses at the Yamboree booth, representatives of the Gilmer Yamboree, selling slices of yam pie at the Texas Folklife Festival. The women are dressed in pioneer style dresses and are standing behind a counter talking to a female festival visitor. Two women, also in pioneer costumes, are visible near the back of the booth. A small sign on the right side of the booth is displayed on a post and says, "Eat More Possum".

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Coupon Booth on the Veranda]

Photograph of a coupon booth on the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures and the first annual Texas Folklife Festival. Numerous people are walking around on the veranda. One man has stopped at the coupon booth where two women are working. The booth has a red, yellow, and orange, umbrella covering with a sign that says "Coupons twenty-five cents"

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cow Calling Demonstration]

Photograph of representatives of the National Cow Calling Championship from Miami, Texas onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. On the right side of the stage a woman behind a microphone is cupping her hands around her mouth, demonstrating a cow call. Another woman stands behind her. On the left side of the stage, three men in cowboy hats are watching the woman by the microphone. In front of the stage, a few spectators are sitting on the ground.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cowboy Cook Tending Beef]

Photograph of a cowboy cook tending beef on an open pit grill in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a white cowboy hat, blue collared shirt, jeans and boots. He is prodding a large cut of beef with a pitchfork. The grill contains around twenty large pieces of meat. In the background behind a ranch fence is a grassy expanse with a couple of trees.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cowboy Grilling Beef]

Photograph of a cowboy cook flipping large cuts of beef in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is flipping the beef with a pitchfork over an open pit grill. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a bandana, a white shirt, and brown chaps. Behind him is a red chuck wagon.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cowboy in a Covered Wagon]

Photograph of Cliff Teinert, director of the range cooks in Cattle Drive Corral, sitting in a red chuck wagon at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a white cowboy hat, collared shirt, jeans and boots, sitting at the front of the wagon and holding the reins.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cowboy Kissing a Woman]

Photograph of Tom Perini, from Buffalo Gap, giving a female festival visitor a free cowboy kiss offered in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is dressed as a cowboy, wearing a beige cowboy hat, red bandana, blue shirt, and jeans. He has one arm around the woman, while he holds a sourdough biscuit in the other. People watching in the background are smiling, amused by the scene.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cowboy Resting in the Shade]

Photograph of Cattle Drive Corral featuring cowboy cooks from ranches across the state, serving food from chuck wagons at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the middle ground, the back panel of a chuck wagon is folded down to form a table, revealing shelves on the interior of the wagon. Under the table, a cowboy is relaxing, sitting with his legs crossed and leaning against the support beam of the fold-down table. In the background, people are preparing food. Out of focus in the very near foregrou… more

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cowboy Serving Biscuits]

Photograph of a cowboy serving sourdough biscuits in Cattle Drive Corral at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the middleground of the photo, the cowboy is handing biscuits to a female festival visitor who is standing outside the booth. In front of them, a dutch oven full of biscuits is resting on the counter. Behind them, other festival visitors and cowboys are visible.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Crawfish Competing in Race]

Photograph of thoroughbred racing crawfish competing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The crawfish are racing on a white surface with red and blue concentric circles. The photograph is taken at the same level as the racing track. Behind the track are two men wearing berets who appear to be administering the race. In the background, a crowd is gathered to watch.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Crawfish Race About to Begin]

Bird's eye photograph of the crawfish race at the Texas Folklife Festival. The race is about to begin as the crawfish are gathered in a basket at the center of a square white surface with red and blue concentric circles. Three men are gathered around the table and one man is placing a crawfish at the start of the race with the other crawfish.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Crawfish Racing on Track]

Photograph of thoroughbred racing crawfish competing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The crawfish are spread out on a white racing track with red and blue concentric circles.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Crowd at Crawfish Race]

Photograph of a crowd of spectators watching the crawfish race at the Texas Folklife Festival. The crowd is gathered outside of the Institute of Texan Cultures. Some people are smiling and some are holding their fingers up in the air to denote a certain number.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Crowd Watching Lebanese Dancers]

Photograph of a crowd watching the Lebanese Ameleb Club dancers in an amphitheater at the Texas Folklife Festival. The photograph is a profile view of the amphitheater, taken from an elevated perspective. The amphitheater descends to the left where the stage is. Every seat is filled and people are also gathered at the top of the amphitheater watching. A number of people are also watching from the veranda of the Institute of Texan Cultures building in the background. Pennant flags are strung fro… more

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dancing Gymnasts]

Photograph of the SOKOL Precision Gym Team members, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The team is directed by Bob Trojacek and is representing the Czech Polka Festival in Ennis. The photograph is taken close to the stage, featuring two pairs of gymnasts each standing back-to-back. They are wearing white shorts and brightly-colored blouses with large, ruffled, long-sleeves. Each gymnast's blouse is a different color. The pairs of gymnasts have one arm up in the air and one down low, mir… more

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Darbeki Players]

Photograph of two darbecki players at the Texas Folklife Festival. The two men are sitting next to each other on a wooden bench, each one playing a darbecki they hold between their legs. The man on the left is wearing red bell-bottom pants, a red tank top, and sunglasses. The man on the right is wearing brown pants and a green shirt. Behind them is a large red and white flag with a green tree, the flag of Lebanon.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Display of Fine Linen and Table Settings]

Photograph of a display of fine linen and table settings loaned by Dr. Sean Burke in the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas Booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The table setting and linens are displayed on tables with white tablecloths, protected by clear plastic casing. In the foreground the table settings are visible. A variety of crystal and porcelain dinnerware is on display. Two visitors looking at the table settings are partially visible in the bottom right corner. Across the booth, oth… more

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Display of Paintings]

Photograph of artist Leona Davis, from Elgin, at her booth of oil and acrylic paintings at the Texas Folklife Festival. She and another woman are sitting in the booth, which displays a large variety of paintings of Texas landscapes. Smaller paintings are arranged on the table in front of them with a sign that reads "Special $7.50." Behind them, larger paintings are hung with a sign that says "Leona Davis." A small group of people have stopped to look at her paintings. They are standing on the l… more

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dorothy Buchanan Demonstrating Lye Soap Making]

Photograph of Dorothy Buchanan, from Bryan, making lye soap in an iron cauldron over a fire pit at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a green dress, a white apron, and a newspaper bonnet as she stirs the cauldron with a wooden oar. A few festival visitors watch closely.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dorothy Buchanan Making Lye Soap]

Photograph of Dorothy Buchanan, from Bryan, making lye soap in an iron cauldron over a fire pit at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a green dress, white apron, and newspaper bonnet, stirring the cauldron with a wooden oar. In the background an open grassy hill and the Institute of Texas Cultures is visible.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Horace Allison Performing with 27 Foot Cedar Horn]

Photograph of Dr. Horace Allison, from Carthage, playing his 27 foot long cedar horn onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. The stage, which is a long flatbed trailer, contains a piano and bench at the right end. Allison is sitting on the bench, facing away from the piano and playing his cypress horn, which stretches across the entire length of the stage. Two horns lay on the stage not being played. One of them is almost as long as the 27 foot horn. The other sits at Allison's feet and is abou… more

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Drummer of Jackie Callier and the Rambling Aces]

Photograph of the drummer of Jackie Callier and the Rambling Aces, a Cajun band from Port Arthur, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The drummer is playing a golden-colored drum set and wearing a white, short-sleeved, button-up shirt and black tie. Behind him, large yellow letters reading "Cajun Country" are displayed on a hill. To the right of him, a black net is stretching from the ground up to some point not visible in the photograph.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[East Texas String Ensemble performs]

Photograph of the East Texas String Ensemble, from Nacogdoches, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The band is made up of four male members, each playing an instrument. Starting from the left, there is a violin or fiddle player, a banjo player, a guitarist, and a upright bassist. The band is performing outdoors on a stage. Two microphones are set up for vocals.

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Entrance to Polish Area]

Photograph of the entrance to the Polish area outside of the Institute of Texan Cultures building at the Texas Folklife Festival. The entrance is denoted by a large archway of paper decorations: red, blue, and white flowers. Visible through the arch, there are red letters hanging from a string of banners that read, "Texas Polonia". Under that another sign reads, "Polish". The Institute of Texas Cultures Building is visible on the left. Festival visitors are sitting and walking through the area.… more

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

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

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