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[Buffalo Soldiers Stand at Attention]

Description: Photograph of the Buffalo Soldiers Living History Group at the Texas Folklife Festival. Six soldiers are lined up with their rifles in the shade next to a tree. They are wearing Civil War-era soldier uniforms with belts and brimmed hats. They are standing at attention, holding their rifles at their side. Their commanding officer is standing on the left, facing them.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Todd at Smokehouse]

Description: Photograph of Bill Todd, from Round Rock, Texas, at Smokehouse at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat that has part of a raccoon skin on it. He is reaching up to grab some peppers that are hanging on a string. On the counter in front of him a couple of squash are visible.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Men of the Voices of Zion Community Choir Singing and Clapping]

Description: Photograph of the Voices of Zion Community Choir performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three male African-American vocalists are gathered around a microphone, singing and clapping their hands. They are all wearing short-sleeved button-up shorts and jeans. A canopy of greenery hangs overhead.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Group Photograph of the Voices of Zion Community Choir]

Description: Photograph of the Voices of Zion Community Choir gathered for a group photograph at the Texas Folklife Festival. Approximately fifteen members of this African-American vocal group are standing together on the grass. Most of the members are women; they are wearing dresses or skirts. Some of them are wearing the same t-shirt.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Female Member of the Voices of Zion Community Choir Performing]

Description: Photograph of a female member of the Voices of Zion Community Choir performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is holding the microphone with one hand and the cord with the other as she sings and points her finger to the audience. She is wearing a sleeve-less, vertical-striped dress. Two male choir members are visible in the background. A canopy of greenery hangs overhead.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Voices of Zion Community Choir]

Description: Photograph of a female member of the Voices of Zion Community Choir performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is holding the microphone with one hand and the cord with the other as she sings and points her finger to the audience. She is wearing a sleeve-less, vertical-striped dress. Two male choir members are visible in the background. A canopy of greenery hangs overhead.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Women of the Voices of Zion Community Choir Singing and Clapping]

Description: Photograph of the Voices of Zion Community Choir performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three female African-American vocalists are gathered around a microphone, singing and clapping their hands. The woman on the left is playing the tambourine. To the left of her, another woman is singing and clapping. A canopy of greenery hangs overhead.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Texas Professional Gunfighters Performance]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Professional Gunfighters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground, three gunfighters dressed in authentic western wear are crouched down as if anticipating some action about to occur. They are brandishing their pistols, ready for any opposition. In the background a crowd of festival visitors are gathered to watch the show.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Male Members of the Second Baptist Church Contemporaries Performing]

Description: Photograph of male members of the Second Baptist Church Contemporaries performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group of six African-American choir members are gathered around a microphone to sing. They are all wearing pants and matching polo shirts. The man in the front center is seated while all the others are standing. A canopy of greenery is hanging overhead.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Second Baptist Church Contemporaries]

Description: Photograph of the the Second Baptist Church Contemporaries, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The all-female choir wears polo shirts with denim pants. They stand in groups of three around a microphone, performing for festival participants.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Broom Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of John Zukowski, from Alpine, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting on the left behind a table, demonstrating how to make a broom. Festival visitors are gathered on the right side of the photograph, watching. Several stalks of straw used to make the brooms are visible on the ground behind Zukowski and on the table in front of him.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jim Braud Excited About a Racing Crawfish]

Description: Photograph of Jim Braud at the Cajun Crawfish Race at the Texas Folklife Festival. Braud, wearing a beret and a light-colored shirt, is crouched down at the side of the racing table closely watching a crawfish that is racing directly in front of him. He is very wide-eyed and excited. His lips are pursed as if he is saying, "ooooh."
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jim Braud Smiling at Crawfish]

Description: Photograph of Jim Braud at the Cajun Crawfish Race at the Texas Folklife Festival. Braud, wearing a beret and a light-colored shirt, is crouched down at the side of the racing table closely watching a crawfish that is racing directly in front of him. He is very wide-eyed and excited, with a large, open-mouth smile on his face.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jim Braud Holding Crawfish]

Description: Photograph of Jim Braud at the Cajun Crawfish Race at the Texas Folklife Festival. Braud, wearing a beret and a light-colored shirt, is holding a crawfish up close to his face. He is very animated, with a large, open-mouth smile and squinted eyes.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jim Braud Cheering for Crawfish]

Description: Photograph of Jim Braud at the Cajun Crawfish Race at the Texas Folklife Festival. Braud, wearing a beret and a light-colored shirt, is crouched down at the side of the racing table cheering on a crawfish that is directly in front of him. His face is very animated.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jim Braud Closely Watching Crawfish in Race]

Description: Photograph of Jim Braud at the Cajun Crawfish Race at the Texas Folklife Festival. Braud, wearing a beret and a light-colored shirt, is crouched down at the side of the racing table closely watching a crawfish that is racing directly in front of him. His face is very animated.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Women Preparing Wontons in Chinese Booth]

Description: Photograph of Mary Eng and another woman preparing wontons in the Chinese booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Eng is on the left picking up a wonton out of a large wok using chopsticks. The other woman is on the right next to another wok. She is tending to the boiling wontons and sifting out the finished ones with a large mesh ladle.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Korean Folkdancers Gathering in a Circle]

Description: Photograph of female dancers from the Korean Folkdancing School in Houston, Texas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are wearing very colorful traditional garments with colors of hot pink, yellow, blue, green, red and white. They are gathering together all facing one another with their arms up in the air. They are wearing colorful sleeves that extend far beyond their hands. Each sleeve has large stripes of blue, green, yellow and red close to the wrist, but the rest of the sleeve … more
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Korean Folkdancer with Long Sleeves]

Description: Photograph of a female dancer from the Korean Folkdancing School in Houston, Texas, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing colorful, traditional garments with sleeves that extend beyond her hands. She is looking down and holding her arms in front of her. The sleeves come down to her ankles. Her outfit is multi-colored with fuchsia, red, yellow, blue, green and white. She is wearing a small headpiece with tassels. A red translucent backdrop is in the background.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Korean Folkdancer Playing a Drum]

Description: Photograph of a female dancer from the Korean Folkdancing School in Houston, Texas, performing under a colorful canopy at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is playing a drum and wearing a traditional green dress that is embroidered with flowers. The dress also has long red sleeves. She is wearing the drum on a strap that goes over her shoulder. The drum is turned sideways with the heads facing outward. She is striking the right side with a stick.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Korean Folkdancers with Cloth]

Description: Photograph of three female dancers from the Korean Folkdancing School in Houston, Texas, performing under a colorful canopy at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are wearing traditional Korean dresses with colors of blue, fuchsia, and green. Each dancer is kneeling down and holding a white sash out in front of them with both hands. On the right side of the photograph, two storage sheds are visible offstage, one orange and one blue.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jesse Jones Explaining Toy Making]

Description: Photograph of Jesse Jones, with O'Connor Historical Group, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting at a table, demonstrating to two children how toys were made on ranches during his childhood. He is wearing a cowboy hat and a white western shirt as he pulls string from a spool. In the background, other booths and festival visitors are visible.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Rev. Mack Williams Doing a Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Rev. Mack Williams, with O'Connor Historical Group, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is demonstrating how things were made on ranches during his childhood. Wearing a cowboy hat, black bow-tie and white shirt, he appears to be grating an ear of corn, seemingly to remove the kernels. A few pieces of chicken wire are laying on the table where he is working.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Children Making Hoecakes]

Description: Photograph of the Cisco Civic League's Hoecakes at the Texas Folklife Festival. Two children are making the hoecakes, named for the tool used to cook them. The cakes are being baked while sitting on the metal part of a hoe that is placed over hot coals. The two children stand on opposite sides of the pile of coals on the ground, each holding a hoe with two cakes on it. Behind them booths and festival visitors are visible.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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