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[Boy Shaving Wooden Log]

Description: Photograph of a boy removing shavings of wood with a drawknife at the pioneer log house raising, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. The boy is crouched over, straddling the log and gripping the drawknife which has two handles and a blade in the middle. He is pulling the drawknife down the log to remove the bark. He has straw or woodcarvings in his hair.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Nailing Roof Shingles on Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of Arnold Griffin nailing shingles on a log cabin at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine, is the project director. The shingles are all made of wood and are being held in place by small wooden stakes.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Chinking a Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of Roberta Griffin chinking a log cabin at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Griffin is wearing a pioneer dress and a matching bonnet as she applies mortar to the gaps between logs with a trowel. The log cabin has not been fully constructed and the logs only come up to her neck. Her face is turned to the right and she is smiling.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[W.B. Keel Splits a Log]

Description: Photograph of W.B. Keel, from Gilmer, splitting a log at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Using an axe, W.B. works at splitting a log that is laying on the ground. His grandson Ronnie Keel stands beside him watching. Both men are standing beside the partially constructed log cabin. In the foreground, two tree stumps are visible, one with a few wooden shingles on it. In the backgr… more
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Men Chopping Wood with Double Axes]

Description: Photograph of the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Two men are splitting logs of wood using double axes or axes with blades on both sides of the head. The partially constructed log cabin is visible in the background as well as several spectators of the wood choppers.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Antique Grinding Wheel]

Description: Photograph of a young girl and boy looking at an antique grinding wheel at the Texas Folklife Festival. The children are in the foreground of the photograph. The boy has his hand on part of the machine and the girl is standing beside him. A group of men are visible in the middle ground and a log cabin is being assembled in the background.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Children Shelling Corn]

Description: Photograph of children shelling corn at the Texas Folklife Festival. Two boys kneel down at either side of a wooden bin on which two corn shellers have been bolted. They push down the corn in the top while turning a crank. The shellers turn the corn on the cob into individual kernels of corn collected in the bin.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Wood Lathe Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Newton O. Peschel from Winedale demonstrating a foot treadle wood lathe at the Texas Folklife Festival. This lathe is like the ones that were used to make chairs in Texas in the 1840s. Peschel, wearing a white shirt and white cowboy hat, is carving a piece of wood on the lathe. A wooden chair and a wooden bench are visible behind him.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Hammers Hot Metal]

Description: Photograph of a man hammering hot metal as part of a blacksmith demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival. The man holds a piece of metal in one hand and a hammer in the other. He places the tip of the metal piece, which is red hot, down on a hard flat surface while is pounding it with the hammer, trying to shape it. A few feet behind him, the flaming forge is visible.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Holding Hot Rebar]

Description: Photograph of a man about to hammer a hot piece of rebar as part of a blacksmith demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival. The piece of rebar is about three to four feet long and is red hot on one end. The man holds the rebar wearing protective gloves. Standing close behind him are festival visitors, both children and adults.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Sawing a Log]

Description: Photograph of a man sawing a log at the pioneer log house raising, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. The log has been laid in place on one wall of the log cabin. With a large manual saw, the man is cutting out a groove in the log to create a corner join in which another log will be laid perpendicular.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Men Splitting Shingles]

Description: Photograph of Arnold Griffin, construction supervisor from Devine, and Bruce Roark, splitting shingles at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. Griffin is on the left stabilizing the log while Roark, on the right, uses a froe to split it. Behind them in the background, trees and a grassy field is visible.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Making Roof Shingle for Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of Nacogdoches fire chief Delbert A. Teutsch making a wooden roof shingle at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Teutsch is tightening down a vice that is holding a wooden shingle in place on a work surface. Behind him, a man is smoking a cigarette.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Blacksmith Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a man holding a piece of metal in a coal forge as part of a blacksmith demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival. The forge is in the foreground and the man, wearing black glasses and and a cowboy hat, is in the middle ground. A few feet behind him, an anvil and hammer are visible. In the background, a few festival visitors are visible.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Children Learn How to Operate Antique Corn Sheller]

Description: Photograph of children learning how to operate an antique corn sheller at the Texas Folklife Festival. One boy is placing a shucked ear of corn in the top of the sheller, which has been placed in a wooden bin to collect all of the loose kernels. Two other children are standing near the sheller: a young boy, and a girl with pigtail braids. Several more people are visible behind them.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Welding Metal Sculpture]

Description: Photograph of Santiago (Jim) DeLeon, from Victoria, welding a metal sculpture at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting in front of a low table wearing protective goggles and welding a piece of metal. Several people are watching closely.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Knife Making]

Description: Photograph of Don Hastings from Palestine demonstrating knife making with a blacksmith's forge at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is holding an object in the forge while his other hand turns a crank. A hammer and anvil are visible on the ground behind him. Several people, adults and children, are gathered around to watch him.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Hammers Hot Metal on Anvil]

Description: Photograph of Don Hastings, from Palestine, demonstrating knife-making with a blacksmith's forge, hammer and anvil at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is hammering a piece of hot metal on an anvil, molding it into shape. In the foreground the forge is visible, full of hot coals. In the background, several spectators are visible.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Displays Knife]

Description: Photograph of Don Hastings, from Palestine, displaying a knife that he made at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a plaid shirt, a brown apron, and a black cap. He is looking at the finished knife which he is holding in his left hand.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Men Working on Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of two men working at the pioneer log house raising, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. The man on the right is standing at the corner of the log cabin where logs come together and stack over each other. He is holding an axe with one hand and a stake in the other which he is positioning over the point where the logs intersect. The other man is on the left, watching.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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