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[Guadalupe de Pena, Pinata Maker]

Description: Black and white photograph of Guadalupe de Pena, a woman who makes pinatas. She is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is holding up an egg carton full of cascarons. One of her pinatas sits next to her; several more pinatas are hanging behind her.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Teenager Making a Wax Candle]

Description: Black and white photograph of a teenager making a candle by dipping a string into a container full of wax. A woman seated at the table where he works is holding two finished candles; more finished candles are on the table before her. This table is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Charlene Berryman Painting a Cornshuck Doll]

Description: Black and white photograph of Charlene Berryman of Kingsburg, Texas, painting a doll made from a cob of corn that is still in its shuck. Three finished dolls complete with dresses are visible on the left. She has a table dedicated to her dolls at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Feather Art]

Description: Black and white photograph of a woman working on crafts made out of feathers at her booth, which is one of many at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. A basket full of feathers are on the table before her, as are a pair of antlers. A partially visible display case of her work sits on an adjacent table.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Learning Leather Tooling]

Description: Color photograph of a young boy learning how to tool leather at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is steadying a nail in a thick, triangular piece of leather; his other hand has some sort of cylindrical tool to drive the nail in. A man in a cowboy hat sits next to him, watching him work; he is identified as a saddler named Gary Dunshee. A wooden block that holds more tools is partially visible on the right.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Lye Soap Making]

Description: Photograph of Doris Riedel making lye soap at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Doris wears a denim shirt and jeans with tan shoes. She stirs the contents of an iron pot, heating over a pile of burning kindling.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Linda Dietert Demonstrating Candle Dipping]

Description: Photograph of Linda Dietert, from New Braunfels, demonstrating candle dipping at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is holding a wooden dowel with a wick tied to the end of it. The wick is being dipped into a tall canister, presumably filled with wax. She is wearing a peasant blouse and lederhosen. She has straight short hair and big sunglasses.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Demonstrating How to Make Cascarones]

Description: Photograph of a woman demonstrating how to make cascarones at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is standing in a booth decorated with red, green and white garland, and several different piñatas. Rows of colorful cascarones (confetti-filled eggs) with tiny cone-shaped party hats are lined up on the table in front of the woman. Two signs, one for cascarones and one for piñatas, are hanging across the top of the booth.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Girl Making Pasta Necklace]

Description: Photograph of a young girl making a necklace out of raw pasta in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting on the table holding up a string of colorful rigatoni noodles. She is wearing a completed noodle necklace, a white tank top with red, blue, and yellow trim and matching shorts. Behind her, other children are seated at the table making necklaces; a few woman are standing around them.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Caning a Chair]

Description: Photograph of James Ander caning a chair at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing blue coveralls and placing the woven material on the seat of the wooden chair. Some festival visitors are watching in the background.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Crabapple Dolls ]

Description: Photograph of a doll-making booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a woman wearing a white shirt and plaid pants leans over a table covered in a quilt, examining a variety of dolls made from fabric and crabapples.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Artificial Flower Making]

Description: Photograph of artificial flower making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a woman sits inside a festival booth, delicately painting the inside of a plastic flower. Several finished flowers are secured in floral foam on the front table of the booth.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Artificial Flower Bouquets]

Description: Photograph of artificial flower making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a woman stands behind a festival booth, arranging artificial floral bouquets in brown wicker baskets.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Mexican Flower Making]

Description: Photograph of Mexican flower making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man wearing a white shirt with bright colored embroidery across the chest and collar attaches paper leaves to a metal stem.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Joe Pyle Demonstrating Glass Crafting]

Description: Photograph of Joe Pyle from Odessa, Texas, demonstrating glass crafting at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Joe wears a red shirt and jeans as he holds an intricate piece of glass in his hands, directing it around a mounted blowtorch, stretching and forming the design.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Glass Crafting]

Description: Photograph of Joe Pyle from Odessa, Texas, demonstrating glass crafting at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Joe wears a red shirt and jeans as he holds an intricate piece of glass in his hands, directing it around a mounted blowtorch, stretching and forming the design.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman creating a piñata]

Description: A woman holding scissors creates a star-shaped piñata of many colors. A piñata is a brightly-colored paper container that is usually filled with candy and/or toys and is used to celebrate a variety of special occasions. It is generally hung from a tree branch or ceiling and participants then use a stick to break the piñata and obtain the candy and/or toys from inside it.
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman cuts paper for piñata]

Description: A woman cuts green-colored paper for a piñata. A piñata is a brightly-colored paper container that is usually filled with candy and/or toys and is used to celebrate a variety of special occasions. It is generally hung from a tree branch or ceiling and participants then use a stick to break the piñata and obtain the candy and/or toys from inside it.
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman decorates a piñata]

Description: A woman creates a star-shaped piñata of many colors. A piñata is a brightly-colored paper container that is usually filled with candy and/or toys and is used to celebrate a variety of special occasions. It is generally hung from a tree branch or ceiling and participants then use a stick to break the piñata and obtain the candy and/or toys from inside it.
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Pigment holder

Description: Glass pigment holder with 7 hand-blown corked glass bottles containing powdered pigment; hand-turned wooden stand to hold bottles (a), has a lid with a finial (b); bottles are about 6 cm. high x 1.8 cm. diam.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Virginia Munroe Holding a Basket She Made]

Description: Photograph of Virginia Munroe holding a basket she made at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bonnet and a gingham dress, she is holding a woven basket about the size of a small suitcase.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[James Ander Caning a Chair]

Description: Photograph of James Ander weaving caning for chair seats at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Using a wooden frame, he is weaving long, thin bamboo pieces to make a seat bottom that will be attached to a chair. Some festival visitors are watching from the other side of the table.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Doug Geich with Whip]

Description: Photograph of Doug Geich, from Trader's Village in Grand Prairie, holding a whip made from elm bark at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, and a polo shirt with stripes on the arm bands and shoulders.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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