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[Mock Battle by Reeanctors at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of a mock battle being performed by 74th Highland Regiment of Foot of the Argyll Highlanders in August of 1975 at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival. In the photograph, members of the group are dressed in historical uniforms consisting of red coats with white pants and black boots. They are standing in a line on the left side of the photograph.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bagpiper Jack Brown at 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of bagpiper Jack Brown at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in September of 1975. The bagpiper is wearing a traditional Irish kilt as he plays the bagpipes on a concrete stage. Three young boys dressed as Irish leprechauns are walking behind Jack. Several trees and some foliage is visible behind the group.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sakae Ogama at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Sakae Ogama, demonstrating Japanese brush writing at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas in August of 1975. In the photograph, Sakae is seated at a table wearing a traditional kimono. She is holding onto a long sheet of paper with her left hand, and writing with a bamboo brush with her right hand.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Los Conquistadores Playing at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of a mariachi band known as Los Conquistadores performing at the opening ceremony of the 1975 Texas Folklife Festival. Their director is Jose Morantes. Miguel Acosta, the guitarist in the foreground, is playing the guitarrón, or large guitar as he stands near the other band members, including a violinist and two more guitarists. A small crowd is visible in the background.
Date: August 7, 1975
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Young Singing Alliance Performing at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of the Young Singing Alliance, a band from San Antonio, performing at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in September of 1975. The band consists of three men and three women each singing with individual microphones. The women are wearing short gray dresses and black handkerchiefs around their necks, while the men wear white pants with black jackets and cummerbunds.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Young Singing Alliance Performing at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of the Young Singing Alliance, a band from San Antonio, performing at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in September of 1975. The band consists of three men and three women. The women are wearing short gray dresses and black handkerchiefs around their necks, while the men wear white pants with black jackets and cummerbunds.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Scottish Bagpiper at 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of a Scottish bagpiper playing in a band on stage at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in September of 1975. The bagpiper is wearing a traditional Irish kilt. Other members of the band are wearing unique hats and playing various instruments like the guitar, banjo, and drums. A crowd of people look on as the band performs.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Mock Battle by Reeanctors at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of a mock battle being performed by 74th Highland Regiment of Foot of the Argyll Highlanders in August of 1975 at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival. In the photograph, members of the group are dressed in historical uniforms consisting of red coats with white pants and black boots. They are standing in a line on the left side of the photograph. Several members of the group are lying face down, pretending to have fallen during the battle.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Esther Siegfried Serving Quiche at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Esther Siegfried serving Quiche Lorraine in the Swiss booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. Esther is wearing traditional Swiss clothing and holding a slice of quiche wrapped in wax paper in her left hand, and carrying a spatula in her right hand. Another woman who is attending the Swiss booth is smiling behind Lorraine.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Reverend John Socha performing at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Reverend John J. Socha from Fort Worth, Texas, performing a religious song in Wendish, a Sorbian language of the Slavic branch. John is wearing a white shirt decorated with small blue flowers, underneath a black vest with white trim. He also wears a white hat with a blue feather, watch, and ring.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Lawrence E. Watson at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Lawrence E. Watson at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas in August of 1975. In the photograph, Lawrence sits next in the grass with his hand resting on a wagon wheel, carrying a cup. He wears a straw cowboy hat, a denim button-up shirt and jeans, and brown leather boots. Lawrence is a trail boss with the Texas Bar Six Bicentennial Wagon from Lexington, Kentucky.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Egg Roll Frying at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of participants frying egg rolls at the Texas Folklife Festival in August 0f 1975 in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, one woman stirs chicken in a large frying pan. Another woman is lifting the chicken from the pan into a cardboard box. A third woman is preparing another part of the meal. Crowds of onlookers watch as the women cook.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Joe McMordie at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Joe McMordie at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas in August of 1975. In the photograph, Joe sits in a black wooden chair, whittling on a piece of wood while a young girl watches him. Joe wears a pink shirt, brown pants, a blue bandanna and a brown hat with rope or twine around the brim. The girl wears a red checkered tank top and red shorts with barrettes in her hair. Joe is an instructor at the Festival Whittlin' School, originally from Austin, Te… more
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Balloons Released at the 1975 Texas Folklife Festival Opening Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of a large mass of multicolored balloons being released from the entrance bridge at the 1975 Texas Folklife Festival opening ceremony. They block the view of a tall, narrow structure that is partially visible in the background. A crowd of people are seated along the side of the entrance boulevard. A child wearing a jersey with the number 60 on the back stands in the foreground, watching the balloons go up. A few people in the background are also standing and watching the balloons. more
Date: August 7, 1975
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Lebanese Dancers Performing at Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of five women performing Lebanese dances at the 1975 Folklife Festival as members of the San Antonio Ameleb Club. They are wearing traditional dancing costumes called bedlahs that consist of gold-trimmed brassieres and sheer, flowing skirts of different colors. Each woman is holding a tambourine above her head.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Belgian Bowling at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of participants playing Belgian bowling (also known as Rolle Bolle) at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. In the photograph, several children hold heavy balls in each hand. A third child rolls one down a wooden plank while several other children and adults watch him. Booths and other activity stations are visible in the grass behind the games.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Belgian Mast Game at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of a young girl participating in the Belgian Mast game at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975 in San Antonio, Texas. The photograph features a rough wooden pole planted in the ground and two rough pieces of plywood affixed to the top at different angles. The girl has her arms and legs wrapped around the pole near the top of it. According to the accompanying information, the Belgian Mast game consists of participants climbing a greased pole to ring a bell at… more
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Children Playing Kuipen Stecken]

Description: Color photograph of participants playing Belgian Kiupen Stecken, also known as Belgian Shower Bath at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. In the photograph, two boys are standing on either side of a triangular wooden box with an open top, from which water is pouring. The box is strung in the air between two thick wooden beams. Each boy carries a long stick that each is using to knock the box upside down.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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