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[Día de los Muertos Display]

Description: Photograph of a display at a Día de los Muertos Exhibit. It is brightly colored and very busy. The back wall features art of mostly people. The floor in front of it is decorations and has many smaller displays that contain sugar skulls, plants and other items. There are taller items that have paper streamers and flowers on them.
Date: 1998
Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Brightly Colored Display at Exhibition]

Description: Photograph of a large display that covers part of the floor and the wall. The wall is decorated with bright illustrations of people. In the floor there are boxes that are covered or decorated. On top of the boxes, there are skeletons, bottles, fruits and vegetables. There are also tall stands that have use large amounts of flowers to make shapes, such as a heart. The floor also has confetti and shredded paper scattered everywhere.
Date: 1998
Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Woman Teaching Crafts Workshop]

Description: Photograph of Mary Ann Ambry teaching a mask making workshop. She is wearing a teal dress with a white shirt underneath. She is sitting at a long table with paper plates and craft supplies covering it. The mask she is making is made out of a paper plate and is gold glitter on it with blue paint on the outer ring.
Date: 1996
Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Hugh Vaughn Making a "Texas Rocker"]

Description: Photograph of Hugh Vaughn making a "Texas Rocker" at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is carving a piece of wood that is spinning rapidly on a lathe. He is holding the carving tool in one spot on the spinning piece of wood to make an even indention all the way around. His forearms are covered in wood chips.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Joe Pyle Working with Glass]

Description: Photograph of Joe Pyle doing glass crafting at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a green shirt and sunglasses, he is holding a long, thin tube of glass over a blow torch flame to soften and bend it.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Fred Huddleston Making Stained Glass]

Description: Photograph of Fred Huddleston making stained glass at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is cutting a piece of glass to fit into a wire frame he has created. A completed piece of stained glass is on the table in front of him, as well as a wire frame for a new piece, wire cutters, and needle-nose pliers. Huddleston is wearing a red cap, a white polo shirt and checkered pants.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Peggy Thompson Demonstrating How to Make Corn Husk Dolls]

Description: Photograph of Peggy Thompson demonstrating how to make corn husk dolls at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is sitting at a table on which several finished dolls are displayed. A girl with short brown hair is standing next to the table, learning how to make the dolls.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Polish Wycinanki]

Description: Photograph of a Polish wycinanki on display at the Polish Arts & Culture Foundation booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman in a purple shirt and navy kerchief is holding the framed piece of ornately cut purple paper.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Andy Owens Making an Instrument]

Description: Photograph of Andy Owens, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, Texas, making an instrument at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The open body of the instrument is being held by a vice while he works on the inside of it. Owens, wearing a plaid shirt, has shaggy brown hair and a dense beard.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Andy Owens Carving the F Hole of a Violin]

Description: Photograph of Andy Owens, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Crouched down beside his work surface, he is carving one of the F holes out of a violin. He has curly brown hair and a medium-length beard.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Eloise Roe Making a Basket]

Description: Photograph of Eloise Roe, from Ingram, Texas, making a basket at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Clothespins are attached to the rim of the basket to hold the wicker band in place while she works. Roe is wearing a plaid shirt, a nautical-themed apron, and a straw hat decorated with yarn and flowers.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Charlie Havard Demonstrating Fish Net Tying]

Description: Photograph of Charlie Havard demonstrating fish net tying at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is sitting in a lawn chair holding an unfinished net and looking toward the camera. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat, browline glasses, and a navy shirt with light blue and orange dots.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Charlie Havard Making a Fish Net]

Description: Photograph of Charlie Havard demonstrating fish net tying at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is sitting in a lawn chair holding a spool of nylon rope which he is using to construct the net. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat, browline glasses, navy pants, and a navy shirt with light blue and orange dots.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Eloise Roe Starting a Basket]

Description: Photograph of Eloise Roe, from Ingram, Texas, making a basket at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Working on the beginning of a new basket, she is holding a small disk of woven plant fibers from which she will work outwards. A few completed baskets are on the table in front of her. Roe is wearing a denim paperboy hat, sunglasses, and a white blouse with orange and blue embroidery.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Virginia Munroe with a Handmade Basket]

Description: Photograph of Virginia Munroe, from San Antonio, displaying one of the baskets she made at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She and another woman are holding the woven basket while Munroe points to the brown feather detail on the side by the handle. She is wearing a pioneer bonnet and a blue gingham dress.
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 caning a chair at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The chair back is laid down in front of him and he is weaving the back of it with a long piece of wicker. The chair is light brown and has a lot of carved detail.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Making a Saddle]

Description: Photograph of a saddler working on his light brown saddle at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is leaning over the nearly completed saddle, working on the detail at the rear part of it. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a red shirt, and jeans.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Gun Engraving Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Frank Hendricks demonstrating gun engraving at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Frank leans over an intricate machine used to tightly secure the gun and etches out patterns in the hard metals of the barrel.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Delbert Brewster Demonstrating Scrimshaw Engraving]

Description: Photograph of Delbert Brewster creating a scrimshaw engraving at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He wears a cowboy hat with a brown short-sleeved shirt and dark-colored pants. Delbert uses a small tool to cut an elaborate scene into a piece of cow horn.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Doris Riedel Making Lye Soap]

Description: Photograph of Doris Riedel making lye soap at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Doris wears a blue dress and apron as she stands beside an iron pot hanging over an open fire. She stirs the lye within the pot with a long wooden paddle.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Saddler Working on Saddle]

Description: Photograph of a saddler from Big Bend Saddlery in Alpine, Texas, making a saddle at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and a red and white t-shirt, he is hammering into a piece of leather to make a pattern.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Steve Hartz Repairing Instruments]

Description: Photograph of Steve Hartz, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, Texas, in the Fiber Designer's Display at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a blue shirt with suspenders, the curly-haired and bearded Hartz is sitting at a table with many tools as he works.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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