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[Compadres Booth]

Description: Photograph of the Compadres booth for out of state visitors at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, visitors place pushpins into a world map which has been laid out on a large table.
Date: [1994-08-04..1994-08-07]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Souvenir book of HemisFair '68

Description: The souvenir book for HemisFair '68. The contents includes information about the countries participating, corporate and industrial exhibits, amusements, and food. The Tower of the Americas dominates the cover illustration.
Date: 1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of El Encanto de un Pueblo Exhibit]

Description: Exhibit hall with brightly colored exterior walls, one red with a geometric sun, one orange and one blue with a light blue crescent moon with a face, described on the back as the "El Encanto de un Pueblo / The Magic of a People" theme exhibit. This is where the Alexander Girard Foundation collection of folk art, with over 10,000 pieces of Latin American folk art was exhibited. The mini-monorail can be seen just at the right edge.
Date: 1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Texas tourism map

Description: A pictorial map showing some of the tourist attractions in the state of Texas. For example, the Alamo and Tower of the Americas are shown for San Antonio and some attractions in the cities of Dallas and Ft. Worth, Houston, and Corpus Christi are also pictured. The Mexican Olympics '68 is also mentioned.
Date: 1968?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

IBM Lakeside Pavilion

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an illustration of the IBM Lakeside pavilion, a single -story building that appears to be open, or have glass walls. People are inside looking at various displays. Printed on back: "IBM: Lakesde. Key feature of the IBM Lakeside Pavilion, one of two the corporation has constructed on site, is a light-hearted informative move explaining the operation of modern computers."
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

U.S. Exhibit Pavilion

Description: Postcard illustration of the U.S. Exhibit Pavilion, one of two buildings that comprised the United States exhibit at HemisFair '68. The Exhibit Pavilion's theme was "Confluence, U.S.A."
Date: 1967?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

The Bru-it, March-April 1968

Description: Special issue of the Lone Star Brewing Company newsletter, focused on HemisFair '68, with information about facilities, attractions, exhibits, and participants. It also contains information regarding the Company's distribution and other updates.
Date: March 1968
Creator: Lone Star Brewing Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

The International Section of HemisFair '68

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an artist's drawing of the HemisFair '68 International Section. In this colorful rendition, the area of the fairgrounds devoted to country pavilions is crowded with visitors. Signs for the country pavilions for Panama and Peru in historic buildings are visible, as well as a skyscraper in downtown San Antonio in the background.
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Lone Star Pavilion

Description: Advertising postcard featuring an architectural illustration of the Lone Star Pavilion, one of the many exhibit halls at Hemisfair '68. It includes people standing at various points on the two-story building, the Tower of the Americas in the background (at left), and boats in the waterway in front of the building.
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

HemisFair water course

Description: A brightly colored artistic illustration of one of the water courses that meandered through the HemisFair '68 grounds. In this picture, a large sailing ship or galleon rests near a small row boat. In the background people are standing at the edge of the water or strolling among the fairgrounds.
Date: 1968?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Lone Star Brewing Company Pavilion

Description: Postcard advertising Heemisfair '68, featuring a photograph of several women water skiing on a pool in front of buildings and spectators in bleachers. Printed on the back: " Lone Star Brewing Company Pavilion. The girls of the Mercury Outboard Water Ski Show pass in front of the Lone Star's lakeside Hall of Texas History. The pavilion features realistic life-size dioramas of scenes from Texas' rich history."
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Carlos Merida mural

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an illustration of a portion of the mural designed for the HemisFair theater building. Printed on back: "Carlos Merida Mural. Abstract, impelling symbolism of Carlos Merida mural in San Antonio Convention Center captures the spirit of the HemisFair '68 theme: Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas."
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Mini-monorail

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an image of people on a paved walkway near the Plaza of Flags (at right) and a multi-car monorail train above ground level at left. Printed on back: "Mini-Monorail is one of the chief transportation means on the HemisFair '68 site. It is quick, colorful and provides a breathtaking view of the exposition's entire 92 acres. Here it passes by the Plaza of Flags representing the twenty-six ethnic groups which have contributed to the greatness of the Am… more
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Theatre and Rivercourt

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68 featuring an image labeled "Theatre and Rivercourt" of a boat full of people in a pool outside the front of the Theatre of the Performing Arts. The building is fronted with a mural by Juan O'Gorman. The top of The Tower of the Americas is visible in the background, near the center of the image.
Date: 1968?
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.421844 -98.485351
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Sculpture Garden

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring a photograph labeled "Sculpture Garden" of several modern outdoor sculptures, near the Pavilion of the United States (left), the United States Confluence Theatre (in the background at right), and the top portion of the Tower of the Americas. Description printed on back: "Tower of the Americas. HemisFair's 622-foot theme structure, is the tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere. View from the observation decks or revolving restaurant a… more
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.418363 -98.486846
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Speech by William Sinkin about HemisFair '68

Description: Draft of a promotional speech by William Sinkin, the first president of the Executive Board of San Antonio Fair, Inc., about HemisFair '68. He describes progress made in planning for the fair and some of the benefits that would result, including cultural, and educational. There are numerous hand-written annotations and revisions to the typed text.
Date: 1966?
Creator: Sinkin, William, 1913-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Pearl Pavilion Courtyard

Description: An artistic illustration of the Pearl Pavilion courtyard at HemisFair '68, held in San Antonio, Texas from April to October 1968. The Pearl Brewing Company was one of the participants at the fair. It's pavilion had indoor and outdoor dining, refreshment and jazz music entertainment areas. This illustration shows a covered outdoor dining area.
Date: 1968~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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