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[Possum Cooking]

Description: Photograph of Dick Potter and Jack F. Baird, also known as Spot, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dick holds the lid of a pot for Spot, who inspects a cooked possum inside of the pot. Both men wear denim overalls with long-sleeve patterned shirts underneath.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Possum Queen Daisy Potter]

Description: Photograph of Daisy Potter, the Possum Queen of the Gilmer Yamboree, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Daisy wears a long dress with a plaid bodice and pink skirt. She carries a white lace umbrella and examines a potato in her hand in the Gilmer Yamboree Booth.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Possumology Lecture]

Description: Photograph of Jack "Spot" Baird giving a possumolgy lecture at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jack, also known as the "Texas Possum King," points to a drawing of himself while speaking into a microphone. He wears a pair of denim overalls, a floral shirt, and a tan hat as he speaks to the audience.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pottery Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a pottery demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man wearing a blue and orange striped shirt, a beaded headband, and jeans, steadies the pottery wheel with one hand as he prepares a bowl of clay.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pottery Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a pottery demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In matching dresses, one woman stands while another woman sits to her right behind a long table. A sign on the wall behind them reads "Scrumptious English Sausage Rolls 25 cents."
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pottery Sale]

Description: Photograph of a pottery selling booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man wearing a striped shirt and beaded headband stands behind a large table full of earthenware and handmade pottery in shades of blue, brown and grey. Colorful fabric shades the booth from the sun.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Precision Shooter Joe Bowman]

Description: Photograph of Joe Bowman, a precision shooter demonstrating his technique at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Joe wears a tan shirt with brown fringe, a cowboy hat, white jeans, boots, and a leather holster. He holds two pistols in his hand amid a cloud of smoke, after shooting them at an unseen target.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Precision Shooting Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Joe Bowman, a precision shooter demonstrating his technique at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Joe wears a tan shirt with brown fringe, a cowboy hat, white jeans, boots, and a leather holster. He holds a large pistol in his hands, aiming at a white circle a girl across the stage is holding in her hand.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pysanky Easter Egg Painting]

Description: Photograph of Pysanky Easter egg painting at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a girl is sitting in the Russian booth wearing traditional Russian clothing. Jars of paint lay on the table in front of her.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pysanky Easter Egg Painting]

Description: Photograph of Pysanky Easter egg painting at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, two men and a woman dressed in traditional Russian clothing stand behind jars of colored glazed used for egg painting. Colorful banners cover the festival booths from the sun.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Quirt Making]

Description: Photograph of T.R. "Rowdy" Pate, making a quirt rope, a type of whip for cattle, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. T.R. is wearing a black hat with jeans and a white buttoned-up shirt. He holds a tan piece of rawhide in his hands as he weaves the quirt.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Railroad Spike Driving]

Description: Photograph of railroad spike driving demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man wielding a pick-axe leans over a railroad section constructed inside the festival. Festival participants stand around the railroad section, watching him drive the spike into the wood.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Rattlesnake Mounts]

Description: Photograph of rattlesnake mounts at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man is preparing the mounts as festival participants watch.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Rawhide Rope Making]

Description: Photograph of T.R. Pate demonstrating rawhide rope making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. T.R., also known as Rowdy, holds a cigarette between his teeth as he braids rawhide into a rope, wearing a black cowboy hat, a white flannel shirt, and denim jeans.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ribbon Cutting Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of Governor Dolph Briscoe and his wife, Janey, cutting the opening ceremonies ribbon at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Governor Briscoe wears a navy suit with a striped tie, while Janey wears a peach-colored dress and gold necklace.
Date: August 5, 1976
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Roger Bourne Leading the Alamo City Highlanders]

Description: Photograph of Roger Bourne leading the Alamo City Highlanders Pipe Band in the opening parade of the Texas Folklife Festival. Roger and his band wear tan shirts with red plaid kilts and tall black hats. The parade walks over the large grassy hill outside of the Institute of Texas Cultures.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Russian Folk Dance Performance]

Description: Photograph of the Russian folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and a woman dance together on a stage wearing traditionally Russian clothing. The woman wears a white ruffled shirt tucked into a red skirt with a lace-up vest and flowers in her hair. The man wears a white linen shirt with floral ribbon embroidered across the sleeves and wrist.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Russian Folk Dance Performance]

Description: Photograph of the Russian folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and a woman dance together on a stage wearing traditionally Russian clothing. The woman wears a white ruffled shirt tucked into a red skirt with a lace-up vest and flowers in her hair. The man wears a white linen shirt with floral ribbon embroidered across the sleeves and wrist.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Russian Folk Dancers]

Description: Photograph of the Russian folk dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and a woman dance together on a stage wearing traditionally Russian clothing. The woman wears a white ruffled shirt tucked into a blue skirt with an elaborately embroidered vest. The man wears a white linen shirt with floral ribbon embroidered across the sleeves and wrist, a green vest, and dark pants.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[San Antonio Maliuhay Dancers]

Description: Photograph of the San Antonio Maliuhay Dancers teaching FIlipino Tinikling at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and a woman stand onstage, jumping in and out of two poles operated by two women from the dancing club. The dancers wear white blouses with floral skirts and yellow sashes. A large group of festival participants watches the demonstration.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association]

Description: Photograph of the San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association performing a demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two members of the association rest on one knee, firing blanks at demonstrators dressed as Native Americans. A crowd of festival participants watch the demonstration from behind the fenced-off area.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of the San Antonio Muzzle Loading Association performing a demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two members of the association rest on one knee, firing blanks at demonstrators dressed as Native Americans. A crowd of festival participants watch the demonstration from behind the fenced-off area.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sausage On A Stick]

Description: Photograph of a man passing out sausages on a stick at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man wears a striped apron, a red hat and sunglasses as he passes three sausages to a festival participant. A man and a woman stand behind the festival booth wearing matching red and white striped aprons as they prepare other types of German food.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Shingle Splitting Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Bill Lindig splitting shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill wears a light-colored shirt and denim jeans as uses a large wooden bludgeon to drive an axe through a large piece of wood.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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