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[Wooden Lodge Past Wire Fence and Grassy Field]

Description: Slide of small, single-story structure constructed out of horizontal wooden posts. The gable roof is missing its pediment, revealing a dark interior. On both sides, it is flanked by a short rock wall, with tall, unkempt grasses crowding it. Additionally, there appears to be a kind of outdoor chimney on the left side of the house, behind the wall. Near the foreground, a few species of flowers can be seen, as well as a wire fence. Accompanying information assigns the name "Black's Fort" to the lo… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Burnet County Historical Commission

[Rock Wall Receding into Background]

Description: Slide of a rock wall built on an unkempt grassy area. The wall has an uneven height, composed of rocks of varying colors and size, and appears to be quite long. It recedes into the background at a sharp angle and appears to meet a tree seen in the distance. Accompanying information assigns the name "Black's Fort" to the location, but there is no other significant information supplied.
Date: unknown
Partner: Burnet County Historical Commission

[Grain Elevator Being Constructed]

Description: Photograph of a grain elevator being constructed. There is wood scaffolding on the right side of the photograph, where a large group of men in black suits are standing. There is a tall building with a smokestack in front of it in the distance.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[A Texas Parks and Wildlife Employee Making Adobe]

Description: Black and white photograph of a man, who is an employee of Texas Parks and Wildlife, making adobe while kneeling on the hay-covered ground. He is working next to a hole filled with a liquid adobe mixture, which is being stirred by an individual who is not visible. They are part of a live demonstration at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Mancham Constructing a Log Cabin]

Description: Black and white photograph of a man named Neal Wright who is constructing a log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing by a corner of the unfinished cabin, surveying the logs with a pencil in hand.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Log Cabin Construction]

Description: Color photograph of two women constructing a log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The woman on the left strips bark off a narrow wood log, the woman on the right holds it in place for her. Several more wood logs are scattered on the ground nearby.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Log Cabin Construction]

Description: Color photograph of a woman participating in the live demonstration of the construction of a log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is stripping the bark off a long piece of raw wood that lays perpendicular to other pieces of wood on the ground.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Log Cabin Construction]

Description: Color photograph of two young boys seated at the corner of an unfinished log cabin at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. While the boy on the left watches, the boy on the right is stripping the bark off the topmost log using a carving tool.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Neal Wright Constructing a Chimney]

Description: Color photograph of Neal Wright demonstrating the construction of a brick chimney at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. It is unfinished; he is patting material onto the outside of the chimney shaft.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Constructing a Chimney]

Description: Black and white photograph of a man named Neal Wright who is constructing a brick chimney at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. His hands are covered in an unidentified material. He is standing next to the chimney, which is unfinished.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Corkery Making Adobe]

Description: Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the pit of adobe, breaking weeds over the mixture, wearing a straw hat, a blue checkered shirt, denim jeans, and brown leather boots. Festival participants watch him as he makes the adobe.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Lindig Splitting Shingles]

Description: Photograph of Bill Lindig splitting shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill straddles a sawhorse as he cuts shingles from a block of wood. Festival participants are visible in the background, interacting with festival booths and watching festival demonstrations.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Barn Raising Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Arnold Griffin demonstrating barn raising at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Arnold leans against the wooden frame of the barn holding a large saw in his hands, wearing a straw cowboy hat, tan shirt, and khaki pants.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Adobe Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the pit of adobe, raking the mixture as festival participants watch.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Roberta Griffin Chinking Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of Roberta Griffin chinking a log cabin at the Texas Folklife Festival. Wearing a pioneer dress, she is filling in the gaps between the logs with a type of sealant. The chinking material is all over her hands. She is cocking her head toward the camera and smiling.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Adobe Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over a wooden trough as he pours water into the individual sections. Several festival stand behind Bill, watching the demonstration.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Adobe Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the wooden trough, shoveling an unknown substance into the individual sections. A festival participant stands behind Bill, watching the demonstration.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Shingle Splitting Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Bill Lindig splitting shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill wears a light-colored shirt and denim jeans as uses a large wooden bludgeon to drive an axe through a large piece of wood.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Chopping Wood for Log Kitchen]

Description: Photograph of a man chopping wood for the log kitchen construction at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Shirtless and standing on a log, the man is chopping the piece of wood with an axe.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Juan Martinez Demonstrating Roof Thatching]

Description: Photograph of Juan Martinez, from Laredo, demonstrating roof thatching at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt, he is leaning over a bamboo frame with his hand on small bundles of straw that have been stacked and tied to the frame.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Neal Wright Building a Chimney]

Description: Photograph of Neal Wright constructing the chimney for a log house at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a blue t-shirt, jeans, and moccasin knee-high boots, he is slathering mud on the outside of the chimney to seal it.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Neal Wright, Chimney Builder from Kountze]

Description: Photograph of Neal Wright, chimney builder from Kountze, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a brown safari hat decorated with bones and the skull of a small animal. He has blue eyes and mutton chops with a mustache. In the background, a chimney and log cabin are visible.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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