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Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.

Date: 1953

Creator: Texas Folklore Society

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Press

Band with Dancers

Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. Approximately nineteen band members watch two local children folkdance. This scene takes place in Ciudad Valles, a home of the Huastecan indigenous people.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band in Uniform

Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. The band is preparing to perform. They are surrounded by locals, mostly children, waiting for the performance to begin. The McMurry College truck is in the background.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Banquet

Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. Many people sit at a table. One person is eating and the others are engaged in conversation. There are three waiters standing in the background.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Nine Students

Copy negative of the McMurry Band students in Mexico traveling. They are standing in front of trees on a sidewalk. Some hold hands.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band Students at Bull Ring

Copy negative of students in the McMurry Band at a bullfighting ring in Villa Acuña, Mexico. Villa Acuña was Del Rio's twin city across the Rio Grande River in Mexico and is now known as Ciudad Acuña. Most of the group members are in uniform and they are standing at the barrera, the fence encircling the bull ring, looking into the bullfighting ring, or anillo. A few band members stand behind the callejon, a narrow passageway between the barrera and the spectators' stands.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

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[News Clip: Mexican banks]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: September 1, 1982, 6:00 p.m.

Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Raul Ramirez and Saltillo City Group]

Photograph of Raul Ramirez and a group of individuals. Ramirez stands behind a podium and looks down. Text on the podium reads: "City of Austin." Seventeen individuals stand behind him. A blank screen hangs behind the group.

Date: July 2000

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Group Raising Mexican Flag]

Photograph of seventeen individuals raising an extremely large Mexican flag. All individuals are male. The flag is folded at a diagonal; each individual holds up part of the flag. The sky is blue with a few clouds. Hills can also be seen.

Date: July 2000

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Woman and Young Girl Cutting a Cake]

Photograph of a large cake being cut in Saltillo, Mexico. The group stands inside a party tent. A woman assists a young girl in cutting the cake. Another young girl stands to the right. The cake is green, yellow, and red. Icing on the cake reads: "Via Saltillo 423." The last word on the cake is illegible.

Date: July 2000

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Flower Wreath on a Stone Wall]

Photograph of a wreath of flowers in Saltillo, Mexico. The flowers are white, yellow, red, and pink. The wreath hangs on a stone wall outdoors. Text on a sign above the wreath reads: "Cristo." Two men in suits stand on the left. Second from the left stands a woman who wears a turquoise blouse. On the other side of the wreath, right, stands a man who wears glasses and a suit.

Date: July 2000

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Museum in Saltillo, Mexico]

Photograph of a museum in Saltillo, Mexico. A portion of the roof is glass. The building itself is concrete and painted a muted mauve color. Cacti and rocks line pathways. The sky is mostly clear.

Date: July 2000

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Group of People at a Meal]

Photograph of eight individuals. Seven are male. Raul Ramirez stands fourth from the left and wears a dark suit. A woman stands farthest to the right and wears a red skirt suit. They stand behind a circular dinner table littered with glassware.

Date: July 2000

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Woman at a Mexican Market]

Photograph of Sylvia Orozco on the Day of the Mule in Saltillo, Mexico. Orozco wears a black shirt and black and white checked skirt. She stands on a sidewalk. Large pieces of colorful cloth hang from screens made of straw behind her. Potted plants sit near the screens. A tall iron and cement gate can be seen in the background.

Date: July 2000

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Sylvia Orozco and Conaculta Members in Mexico City]

Photograph of five individuals in a conference room. Sylvia Orozco stands at the end of a table. She speaks to members of Conaculta, or The National Council for Culture and Arts. The meeting took place in Mexico City, Mexico.

Date: 2002

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Group at Conaculta]

Photograph of a group outside Conaculta, or The National Council for Culture and Arts, in Mexico City, Mexico. Those present include Sylvia Orozco, Lulu Flores, and Nilda de la Llata. All are professionally dressed. They stand in front of a large wooden door.

Date: 2003

Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum