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[Person Using Tool to Make Rope]

Description: Photograph of person using a wedge tool to make rope. The tool is more narrow on the side of the wound rope, and the tool is wider on the side of the strands that have yet to be wound into the rope. There are four strands that make up the rope, with two being a light color and two being a dark color.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[People Making Rope]

Description: Photograph of six people making rope near a barbed wire fence. Three people stand on the left side of the frame by the rope that has already been wound, and three people stand on the right side of the frame holding the side of the strands that are not wound into the rope yet.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[People Making Rope]

Description: Photograph of several people making rope while others watch. They stand in a lawn with a large building and a canopy tent in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

[Bill Brett Explaining How to Make Rope]

Description: Photograph of Bill Brett explaining how to make rope at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman is sitting next to him holding the rope that he is holding in his hands. Other visitors and booths are visible in the background.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Brett with Horsehair Rope]

Description: Photograph of Bill Brett, postmaster from Hull, Texas, spinning horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a gray collared shirt, a gray cowboy hat, and big glasses as he clutches a bundle of light-colored horsehair and a completed rope.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Brett Spinning Horsehair Rope]

Description: Photograph of Bill Brett, postmaster from Hull, Texas, spinning horsehair rope and telling stories at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a gray collared shirt, a gray cowboy hat, and big glasses as he clutches a bundle of light-colored horsehair. He is looking up from his chair at someone or something.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Making Horsehair Rope]

Description: Photograph of Bill Brett, from Hull, making a horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a beige cowboy hat, sunglasses, a short-sleeved beige button up shirt and jeans, twisting and braiding a rope made of horsehair. A few feet behind him, a pick-up truck is visible.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Explaining How to Make Horsehair Ropes]

Description: Photograph of Bill Brett, from Hull, making a horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting on a small bale of hay, wearing a beige cowboy hat, sunglasses, jeans, and a short-sleeved beige button-up shirt. He is showing his horsehair rope to a woman standing next to him. She holds part of it in her hand.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Johnny T. Neal, Jr. Making Horsehair Rope]

Description: Photograph of Johnny T. Neal, Jr. using twister to make horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, a collared shirt, and jeans, he is holding one end of the rope while a young man twists the horsehair in a machine with a manual crank.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
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

[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
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