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[Woman Doing Calligraphy]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Karen Wayne in Bathtub with Visitor]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Visitor in Bathtub at Chili Appreciation Society Booth]

Photograph of a festival visitor sitting in a tub at the Chili Appreciation Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is shirtless, pouring a cup of water over his head.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Members of the Chili Appreciation Society International]

Photograph of two members of the Chili Appreciation Society International at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are two women, looking at a spoonful of chili. The woman on the right is wearing sunglasses, and a straw hat covered with pins and charms, including a mini beer can. The woman on the left has short hair and is wearing big glasses.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Guitarist with Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band]

Photograph of the guitarist with Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He has dark shaggy hair and a beard, and is wearing a long-sleeved patterned shirt and a straw cowboy hat. He is smiling toward the crowd as he sings into a microphone.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Guitarist and Singer with Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band]

Photograph of a guitarist with Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He has dark shaggy hair and a mustache, and is wearing a long-sleeved western shirt. He is also singing into a microphone.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Drummer with Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band]

Photograph of the drummer with Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He has short hair and a mustache, and is wearing a long-sleeved patterned shirt. His drums are set up in front of a velvet curtain.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Carroll Gilley from the Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band]

Photograph of Carroll Gilley with Carroll Gilley Southern Comfort Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing jeans, a jean vest, and a long-sleeved white shirt as he looks at the camera, sings and plays piano. His hair is dark and combed over to cover his ear.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cecil Overstreet in Front of Chimney]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[John Collins dressed as Judge Roy Bean]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[John Collins as Judge Roy Bean Posing with Guns]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait of Hazel Bowen]

Photograph of Hazel Bowen, wagon mistress from Antelope, at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a cowboy hat with an assortment of pins on the crown. Her skin is wrinkled and leathery.

Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Entrance Gate 4]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Demonstrating How to Make Cascarones]

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

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Voices of the Mainland]

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

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ameleb Lebanese Dancer with Tambourine]

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

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Working on Sculpture]

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

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy Using Manual Drill]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Young Lebanese Girl Dancing]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Girl Making Pasta Necklace]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Girl on See-Saw]

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]

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Person Climbing a Belgian Mast]

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

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman at Spinning Wheel]

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

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Working on Woodcarving]

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

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

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