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[News Clip: Czech TX]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Czech resident of West, Texas named Jan Vaculik, and his family's hopes for governmental changes in their home country of Czechoslovakia. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: November 24, 1989
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: TX Czech]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Shelley Kofler about Czech families in the U.S. discussing the governmental changes in their home country. This story features Jan Vaculik, the editor of a Czech newspaper based out of West, Texas called Hospodar. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: November 24, 1989
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Portrait of Family

Description: Copy negative of Henry and Filmena Kvapil John with their children Milan Louis, Henry Jr. and two other children. Mr. John is wearing a dark suit and has a beard. Filmena is wearing a long dress with a cross necklace around her neck. The two boy children are wearing jackets and stockings and the others are wearing dresses. Written across the bottom margin of the photograph is, "Henry & Filmena John & children at the time they came to US." Written below that is, "Henry, Lod, Bessie, Milan."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Family Portrait

Description: Copy negative of a Czech family, including Filomena Kvapil John seated on the far left. The group includes eight women dressed in long, black dresses and one man dressed in a suit and bow tie. Some of the women are wearing necklaces, and one elderly woman is wearing a head scarf. Illegible handwriting is written below the photograph, naming the people in the image.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Group portrait of St. Theresa (Czech) Lodge]

Description: Group portrait of St. Theresa (Czech) Lodge with Catholic priest in front of Rosenberg Lodge Hall, ca. 1935. Members of group who are identified on the back in pencil are: Mrs. Amelia Hrncir, Julia Perietz, Clara Maresh, Mrs. Matina, Annie Perietz, Lillie Maresh, Marie Matina, Celia Perietz. The priest is standing next to the third row on far right of photograph. White wooden building in background. Top of a flag in back row, left. Two girls are holding a banner on right, front row. Writing in… more
Date: 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Czech Singers]

Description: Color photograph of a group of women and men performing as Czech singers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. On the left, four men are grouped together around two microphones. On their right is a long line of women gathered around three visible microphones. All the singers are holding up sheet music binders. One woman sits at an electric organ. They are all dressed in traditional Czech attire.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[The Hoboes Czech Band]

Description: Photograph of the Czech musical group, the Hoboes, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The five members of the band sit and stand onstage wearing jeans decorated with various patches and plaid shirts. Three of the men play the trumpet, one man plays the guitar. The fifth man plays a bass box, which is played by rubbing a broomstick across a wooden box covered with salt.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[The Hoboes Musical Performance]

Description: Photograph of the Czech musical group, the Hoboes, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The five members of the band sit and stand onstage wearing jeans decorated with various patches and plaid shirts. Three of the men play the trumpet, one man plays the guitar, and the fifth man holds a red broom in his hand.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bass Box Playing]

Description: Photograph of the Czech musical group, the Hoboes, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a member of the audience is being boosted on the stage by another audience member, in order to play the bass box. The woman is wearing a red shirt tucked into a denim skirt, and brown sandals.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bass Box Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of the Hoboes bass box player Bootsie Ehler playing the musical instrument a festival participant. Bootsie and his guest use brooms to make noise on a wooden board covered with salt. The four other members of the band stand around the bass box players, accompanying them with three trumpets and a guitar.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Historic plaque, Birthplace of the SPJST

Description: Photograph of a historic plaque detailing the birth of the SPJST. It reads: "On December 28, 1896, twenty-five Czech-Texans gathered in the district courtroom of this courthouse to establish a new fraternal benefit insurance society, the Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas, more commonly known as the SPJST. The SPJST held its first convention in the same room on June 20, 1897. I. J. Gallia served as the society's first president and J. R. Kubena was the first secretary. The SPJST official… more
Date: October 7, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.908106062447406 -96.88041173809813
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Helen Oats Pouring a Drink]

Description: Photograph of Helen Oats, director of Texas Czechs in Review-Moravian Beseda dancers from Dallas, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing an embroidered white peasant blouse with ornate trim and a fitted vest, she is pouring a beverage from a ceramic flask into a small teacup.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sokol Zizka Gym Team Performing]

Description: Photograph of Sokol Zizka, a Czech gym team from Dallas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Young gymnasts are lined up doing somersaults down a mat, one after another. In the foreground at the end of the mat, a girl is just coming out of a somersault, rolling off the mat and onto the grass.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Czech Accordion Player Joseph Kaspar]

Description: Photograph of Joseph Kaspar, a Czech accordionist, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Joseph sits on a grey stage in front of a red and orange backdrop. He wears a green hat with a white shirt, blue pants, and black shoes. He plays a red and yellow accordion and sings for festival participants.
Date: [1990-08-02..1990-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bexar County Czech Heritage Society]

Description: Photograph of women preparing food at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three women wearing traditionally Czech clothing each hold a traditional dish in their hands. The dishes were served at the Bexar County Czech Heritage Booth within the festival.
Date: [1990-08-02..1990-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Joseph Kaspar Playing the Accordion]

Description: Photograph of Joseph Kaspar, a Czech accordionist, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Joseph sits on a grey stage in front of a red and orange backdrop. He wears a green hat with a white shirt, blue pants, and black shoes. He plays a red and yellow accordion and sings for festival participants.
Date: [1990-08-02..1990-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Czech Dancers of West]

Description: Photograph of the Czech Dancers of West performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Female dancers wear velvet vests over long skirts bolstered by full petticoats, and black boots, while the men wear similar velvet vests with pants, sashes, and black shoes. The dancers stand in a semicircle facing away from the large audience situated on the grassy Bern.
Date: [1991-08-01..1991-08-04]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Czech Dancers of West Performance]

Description: Photograph of the Czech Dancers of West performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Female dancers wear velvet vests over long skirts bolstered by full petticoats, and black boots, while the men wear similar velvet vests with pants, sashes, and black shoes. The dancers link arms in groups of two as they spin in circles.
Date: [1991-08-01..1991-08-04]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Czech Folk Dancers of West]

Description: Photograph of the Czech Folk Dancers of West at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, dancers stand and look at the camera. They wear traditional Czech costumes.
Date: [1994-08-04..1994-08-07]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Mary Ann Kleffner and Irene Mazoch with Kolaches]

Description: Photograph of Mary Ann Kleffner and Irene Mazoch with kolaches at the Bexar Co. Czech Heritage Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A sign with a painted woman and "Kolach[es]", appliances, and foliage are visible in the background.
Date: [1999-08-05..1999-08-08]
Creator: Howard, Laura
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Flo Baca Holding a Child]

Description: Photograph of Flo Baca of the Gil Baca Czech Band holding a child in her arms after a musical performance. Flo wears a traditional Czech costume consisting of a bonnet, scarf, and white shirt with puffy sleeves. Each piece has intricate embroidery on it.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Flo Baca Playing The Tambourine]

Description: Photograph of Flo Baca performing with the Gil Baca Czech Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Flo wears a traditional Czech dress as she plays the tambourine.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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