7,555 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.
captions transcript

[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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Emcee Robert Thonoff with Flo Baca]

Description: Photograph of Flo Baca, of the Gil Baca Czech Band, playing tambourine at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a very colorful traditional dress with colors of red, yellow, black and white. Her peasant blouse has very large puffy sleeves.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Egg Painting]

Description: Photograph of Suzie and Noreen Tolman displaying their painted eggs at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Both Suzie and Noreen wear matching white dresses and floral headbands in their hair. Together they hold a large red and white painted egg, as part of the Bexar County Czech Heritage Society Booth.
Date: [1990-08-02..1990-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Czech Band Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Peppermint Orchestra, a Czech band from Richardson, Texas, performing at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The band members are on a small stage and are playing a variety of instruments, including the trumpet, saxophone, accordion, drums, and sousaphone. The members are wearing light shirts and dark slacks; some are also wearing sombreros. There are signs in front of the band that say, "The Peppermint Orch." Other festival participants are visible in the background.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Balloons launch freedom crusade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce raising funds for the Freedom Crusade, a project to distribute propaganda leaflets to Czechs behind the Iron Curtain.
Date: September 5, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Czech-Moravian Beseda Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Czech-Moravian Beseda Dancers from SPJST Lodge 84 of Dallas, Texas, performing at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. Representing Czechfest, the young dancers are performing on a small stage and are wearing what appear to be traditional Czech garments. The dancers have partnered off; each set of partners are holding hands. Festival participants are visible in the background.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Czech-Moravian Beseda Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Czech-Moravian Beseda Dancers from SPJST Lodge 84 of Dallas, Texas, performing at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. Representing Czechfest, the young dancers are performing on a small stage and are wearing what appear to be traditional Czech garments. The dancers have formed two lines and are facing each other; the dancers are holding hands with the person beside them.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
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.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Texas Czech Beseda Dancers]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Czech Beseda dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear traditional Czech clothing as they perform in male and female groupings under a yellow and red awning. Festival participants watch the demonstration from a grassy hill to the left rear of the stage. The dance group is from Dallas Texas.
Date: [1990-08-02..1990-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Texas Czech Beseda Dance Performance]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Czech Beseda Dancers from Dallas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear traditional Czech clothing as they hold hands, dancing in a circle. Festival participants watch the demonstration from a grassy hill to the left rear of the stage. The dance group is from Dallas Texas and are identified as David and Kelly Hlavenka (right), Joseph and Louise Bednar (back), Stanley Vrla and partner (front), and an unidentified fourth couple on… more
Date: [1990-08-02..1990-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
Back to Top of Screen