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[Corn Shucking at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of a young girl vigorously turning the handle of an antique corn sheller in Hondo's Corn Shuckin' and Shellin' area at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. In the photograph, the girl is wearing a pink and white flowery swimsuit. The bodies of three women and a man are visible around the girl, although the frame of the photograph crops their faces out of the frame.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Corn Crib and Corn Sheller]

Description: Photograph of a corn crib and a corn sheller at the Texas Folklife Festival. A sign explains that the crib, which looks like a small log cabin with no roof, was originally built on site at Canyon Lake. Ears of corn are piled up inside the crib. On either side of the doorway are burlap bags. Two young girls are in front of the crib, one turning a crank to operate the sheller, the other gathering corn.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Corncob Doll Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Charlene Berryman, from Kingsbury, Texas, making corncob dolls at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting at a table and working with corn and cornhusks. Finished dolls, that are wearing dresses and bonnets, are on the table. Other festival participants are visible in the background.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Women Competing in Corn Shucking Contest]

Description: Photograph of several women competing in the "corn shuckin'" contest at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The women are on a stage, kneeling on the ground, shucking corn. The women each have a metal barrel in front of them; they appear to be removing the corn from the barrel and discarding the corn husks on the floor beside them. The women are elevated on the stage; festival participants are leaning on the stage in front of them.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man With Grist Mill]

Description: Photograph of R.K. (Ken) Wimberley, from Austin, kneeling down by his grist mill at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. It appears that the grist mill has recently ground corn mill; there is a bag of whole corn nearby and a pile of grounded corn mill under the chute of the grinder.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Native Americans Pounding Corn]

Description: Photograph of Darby Battise, member of the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas, pounding corn in a corn mill at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. Situated in the Indian Village, the young tribe member is pounding the corn using a tree branch in a corn mill made from a tree trunk with a hollowed out opening. Another young participant is watching this process. They are standing in front of a tall fence and other festival participants are visible sitting in the background.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Junia Roberts, John Jeremiah, and Paul Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout, November 7, 1875]

Description: Letter from Junia Roberts, John Jeremiah, and Paul Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout. The letter started out with Junia writing. She wrote very briefly about how she missed her husband. When she had to tend to the baby, her and John Patterson's son, John Jeremiah, finished writing the letter. He told his father how the hogs, cows, and sheep were doing and that they had purchased more corn and cotton-seed for the animals. On the back of the letter, Paul Osterhout, the eldest son, finished wr… more
Date: November 7, 1875
Creator: Osterhout, Junia Roberts; Osterhout, John Jeremiah & Osterhout, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Austin College

[Letter from Alta Berry to Linnet Moore White, June 7, 1909]

Description: Letter from Alta Berry to Claude and Linnet White in which she discusses her health and farming. She says that Claude is in trouble with his crops as he has been "drinking a great deal lately." He was arrested after causing a disturbance at a supper in Melissa, Texas. She also updates Linnet on the activities and health of friends and family.
Date: June 7, 1909
Creator: Berry, Alta
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Corny situation stops traffic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident involving a truck loaded with corn and an automobile in Fort Worth, scattering corn across the road and stopping traffic.
Date: January 7, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys in Corn Crib]

Description: Photograph of two young boys in the corn crib in the "Corn Shuckin'" area at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The young boys are kneeling on the ground which is covered in corn husks. A cardboard box is on the ground in front of them, and one boy appears to be taking out an ear of corn from the box.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Corny situation stops traffic]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an accident involving a truck loaded with corn and an automobile in Fort Worth, scattering corn across the road and stopping traffic.
Date: January 7, 1955
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Doc Rhuman doing a demonstration with corn]

Description: Photograph of Doc Rhuman on set with and unidentified man and woman. Rhuman and the man are both holding corn plants and the woman is helping Rhuman shuck one of the ears of corn that is on the plant. The group is looking down at the ear of corn and the man is pointing at it. The set they are standing on has a backdrop that is painted to look like a cloudy sky and there is a painted, two dimensional tree on the left and a three dimensional tree prop on the right. There is also a swing set on th… more
Date: July 7, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Grain-Planter.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and durable grain planter that plants large grains like corn, peas, and wheat. The improved machine is perfectly timed and does not crush the seeds.
Date: February 7, 1893
Creator: Yarbrough, Orceneth Fisher
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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