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[Piñata Making]

Description: Color photograph of two women holding finished piñatas at the 7th Annual Texas Folklife Festival. On the left is Desy Perez, the assistant of the woman on the right, Guadalupe De Pena. Desy is holding a pink and green unicorn piñata, while Guadalupe is holding a piñata that looks like Raggedy Ann. Behind them, a few finished piñatas hang in the background.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Women Making Pinatas and Cascarons]

Description: Color photograph of the pinata booth where Guadalupe De Pena (left) and Desy Perez (right) teach visitors how to make pinatas and cascarons. Their booth is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. On the table before them are some finished pinatas, some egg cartons filled with paper cones, and a few Coca-Cola cups.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Elderly Woman Playing Bocce]

Description: Color photograph of an elderly woman named Marie Fleming playing bocce ball near a chain link fence at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in a folk costume of an identifiable origin. Two men stand behind her, watching her throw the ball.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Preparation for Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest]

Description: Color photograph of a young boy and a man reaching into watermelon halves to gather seeds for the watermelon seed spitting contest at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The pair of watermelon halves sit on a grassy area; next to them is a pile of watermelon pulp.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Onion Bobbing Contest]

Description: Photograph of an onion bobbing game at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and a boy stand behind a yellow bathtub filled with water and onions. A boy sits in front of the bathtub next to a sign reading "Onion Bobbing Here."
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Onion Bobbing Contest]

Description: Photograph of an onion bobbing game at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man and a boy stand behind a yellow bathtub filled with water and onions. A boy sits in front of the bathtub next to a sign reading "Onion Bobbing Here."
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cow Chip Tossing Contest at Chili Appreciation Society Booth]

Description: Photograph of woman participating in the cow chip tossing contest at the Chili Appreciation Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a cowboy hat with a raccoon tail, a bandana, a tattered blouse, a tattered skirt, an apron, and black cowboy boots. She is on the right, tossing the cow chip to the left. A man on the left is taking a photograph of her. Other spectators are gathered around the area.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Participating in the Cow Chip Tossing Contest]

Description: Photograph of woman participating in the cow chip tossing contest at the Chili Appreciation Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing jeans, a light-colored blouse, a bandana and sunglasses. She is on the right, tossing the cow chip to the left. Several spectators are gathered around the area. A trash bag of cow chips is on the ground next to her.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman and Girl Arm Wrestling]

Description: Photograph of a girl arm wrestling a woman at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are sitting across the table from each other, the girl on the left and the woman on the right. The girl is wearing a halter top and has a long braid. The woman is wearing a loose, long sleeve dress and a wide-brimmed sun hat which is hiding her face. The woman appears to be winning the contest. Spectators are gathered around closely.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Person Climbing a Belgian Mast]

Description: Photograph of a person climbing a Belgian Mast, which is a greased pole, at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are nearing the top of the wooden pole where a bell is tied. A crowd of festival visitors are gathered around to watch. In the background a sign saying, "Belgian" is hanging on the outside of a booth that is colored red, yellow and black.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Child Sliding Down Berm at Institute of Texas Cultures]

Description: Color photograph of a young girl sliding down the berm at the Institute of Texas Cultures during the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975 in San Antonio, Texas. The girl in the photograph is tumbling out of a cardboard box and down the grass hill. She is wearing a navy shirt, pale blue shorts, and tan leather sandals.
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

[Buckin' Barrel Game]

Description: Photograph of a child playing on the buckin' barrel at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The buckin' barrel consists of horse saddle secured to a hollowed out log. Four thick ropes secured underneath the log. Two men move the ropes up and down, in an attempt to buck the festival participant off his mount.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Chili Apprecation Society Games]

Description: Photograph of contest at the Chili Appreciation Society Booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A line of women attempt to push a ball towards the finish line without using their hands. The Chili Appreciation Society Truck is visible in the background.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Frontier Playland]

Description: Photograph of Frontier Playland Park at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, children are playing on a large, upturned tree trunk. Towards the rear of the trunk, a woman is helping a baby balance on it. A fence mounted with many picture frames is visible in the background.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Frontier Playland Park]

Description: Photograph of Frontier Playland Park at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, four boys wearing cowboy hats crowd around a covered wagon. A metal fence behind the wagon is decorated with streamers and flags.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Frontier Playland Park]

Description: Photograph of Frontier Playland Park at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a blindfolded child is pushing a wheelbarrow with the help of an adult. Two boys watch the girl with the wheelbarrow as festival participants watch.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Belgian Bolls Game]

Description: Photograph of festival participants playing Belgian bolls at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man is leaning towards a target wearing a white collared shirt and plaid pants, throwing a ball towards a small box in the corner of a booth.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Visitors Trying to Solve Puzzles]

Description: Photograph of festival visitors trying to solve Roland Denny's puzzles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A table is covered with groups of cubes about the size of alphabet blocks. Visitors are trying to arrange them in the correct way to reveal an image. Since the cubes have six sides, each group of cubes contains six possible puzzles.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Girl Climbing Belgian Mast]

Description: Photograph of a girl climbing a Belgian mast at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The mast is a tall skinny tree trunk that has had all the limbs removed so that it resembles a pole.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boys Playing Wheelbarrow Game]

Description: Photograph of a blindfolded boy pushing another boy in a wheel barrow in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy riding is directing the blindfolded boy to push the wheelbarrow through a wooden arch. A young man is standing next to them to provide additional assistance.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Game of Bocce]

Description: Photograph of four boys playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The boy in front, holding two red balls, is preparing to toss them on the grass in front of him. They are standing in an area marked off by square hay bales.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boys Playing Bocce Ball]

Description: Photograph of two boys playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Each holding a ball the size of a grapefruit, one green and one red, they are about to toss them on the grass in front of them.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Belgian Boll Game]

Description: Photograph of children playing bolls, a Belgian game, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a boy stands in front of a long, black platform used to roll the ball. Children sit and stand on either side of the boy, waiting for their turn to play.
Date: [1992-08-06..1992-08-09]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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