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[Four of the Norman Sisters Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Norman Sisters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four female singers are standing onstage holding microphones and looking at one another. The singer in the foreground is wearing a yellow blouse, yellow earrings, and a scarf around her waist. She is holding the microphone up to her mouth and has her eyes closed. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the area.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Front View of Mexican Food Booth]

Description: Photograph of the front of the Mexican food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. It is modeled to look like Mission Espada. The facade is two-dimensional, and is painted to look like stone. Figures of a friar and a Native American are also painted on the facade. Above the center doorway, which is actually being used as a serving window, are three archways where artificial bells are hanging. On the far left and right of the structure are two additional serving windows. Colorful streamers are st… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Frontier Soldier Shoeing a Horse]

Description: Photograph of a frontier soldier reenactor at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is dressed in period clothing: blue pants, a white shirt, suspenders and a black, wide-brimmed hat with a yellow cord around the base of the crown. He is bending over holding the back hoof of a dark brown horse up over his lap. In the background, a white horse and a stone house are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Frontier Soldiers with Rifles]

Description: Photograph of frontier soldier reenactors at the Texas Folklife Festival. One officer is standing on the right across from two soldiers on the left. They are wearing black coats, black hats with yellow cords, gray pants and black boots. The officer has yellow stripes on the sleeve of his coat. They are all holding their rifles in front of them with their left hand on tip and right hand on bottom, near the trigger area. Behind them on the right, a boy is standing alone, watching them.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Girl Drinking from Spanish Bota]

Description: Photograph of Fernando Herrera teaching a visitor to drink from a Spanish bota at the Texas Folklife Festival. Herrera is on the right lifting the visitor's arm as she drinks. She is in the center of the photograph tilting her head back and pointing toward her mouth the long spout of the bota, which, aside from the spout, looks similar to a small glass carafe. A woman standing nearby is smiling as she watches. Other festival visitors are visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Group of Women Quilting]

Description: Photograph of quilters from Voca, Texas at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group of six women are sitting around a quilt that is stretched out between two wood planks. The quilt is unfinished and each woman is working on a different part of it. Behind them in the background, two women are holding up a finished quilt with a large eight-point star in the center. The star is made up of many small orange, yellow, and brown diamond shapes. The quilt has a brown border.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Guitarist Performing with Expresiones Argentinas]

Description: Photograph of a guitarist performing with Expresiones Argentinas at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a colorful knit hat, a green pancho, and khaki pants with colorful stripes down the sides. He is standing behind two microphones, one for his guitar and one for vocals. He is smiling and looking down at his guitar. In the right background, two other performers are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Hawaiian Club Dancer Performing with Fire]

Description: Photograph of a member of the Hawaiian Club Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is twirling a fire baton that is lit at both ends. He is shirtless, wearing only a short skirt, decorative fringe bands around his arms and one leg, a head band, and a tribal necklace. Some spectators are visible in the left background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Hawaiian Club Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Hawaiian Club Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four female dancers are visible lined up front to back dancing with their arms out in front of them. They are wearing tribal costumes: triangle-patterned tops with thin straps, knee-length beaded skirts and patterned headbands. A crowd of spectators is visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Houston Romanian Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Houston Romanian Dancers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. A line of dancers are side-by-side, hands joined at shoulder level. Four women are on the left and four men are on the right, all dressed in traditional clothing. The women are wearing tea-length layered skirts, peasant blouses, and head scarves. The men are wearing long tunics tied at the waist with sashes, pants, boots, and Russian-style fur hats. Some audience members are visible in the left backgro… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Indian Beadwork Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a member of the San Antonio Council of Native Americans doing an Indian beadwork demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting at a table wearing a Native American inspired dress. On the table is a contraption pulling a group of strings taut. The woman is carefully adding beads to the strings. A woman sitting to the left of her is partially visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Irish Dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing]

Description: Photograph of dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are paired off into four couples, each pair dancing side by side with their hands joined and holding them at shoulder level. They are dancing around clockwise in a circle, their right sides facing the center of the circle. The women are wearing tea-length skirts and most of the men are wearing dark pants except for one who is wearing a kilt. The background of the stage is p… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Irish Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of Irish dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Two lines of three dancers each are onstage facing each other. Each line has two women and a man in the center, the three holding hands. They are kicking up their feet and one woman is actually pictured mid-air. Directly to the left, two dancers are standing and clapping. A colorful shade canopy hangs overhead.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Jean Schnitz Playing Autoharp]

Description: Photograph of Jean Schnitz playing autoharp at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting in the foreground in front of two microphones, singing into one and playing into the other. She strums with one hand and presses chord buttons with the other. In the middle ground, a guitar is laying on stage and a man is sitting on a square hay bale. In the background, crowds of festival visitors are walking around.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Jo Ann Andera with Hans Mark and Others]

Description: Photograph of festival director Jo Ann Andera with U.T. Chancellor Hans Mark, Lt. General John McGiffert, and two others at the Texas Folklife Festival. Starting from the left is a man dressed in western clothes. He is wearing red jeans, an orange shirt, a navy vest, a red bandana, a brown leather gun holster with a pistol, and a tan cowboy hat. He also has a white beard. Standing to the right of him is Andera, wearing a white cotton dress. To the right of her is Mark, the tallest of the group,… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Jo Ann Andera with V. T. "Cowboy" Williams]

Description: Photograph of festival director Jo Ann Andera and V. T. "Cowboy" Williams at the opening party for the Texas Folklife Festival participants. Andera is on the left wearing a white cotton dress smiling at the camera. Williams is on the right, wearing a cowboy hat, a long-sleeved shirt, jeans and a sheriff's badge. Other festival participants are visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Creator: Sidoric, Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[John Henry Faulk and Bill Brett at Opening Party]

Description: Photograph of John Henry Faulk and Bill Brett at the opening party for the Texas Folklife Festival participants. Faulk is on the left and Brett is in the middle looking toward the camera. They are both wearing cowboy hats, holding beers, and talking with a young woman who is on the right. Other festival participants are visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Johnny Neal and Rowdy Pate Making Rope]

Description: Photograph of Johnny Neal, and Rowdy Pate making rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. Pate is on the right, tying off the rope on a spinning contraption that Neal, standing to the left, is holding. Both men are wearing cowboy hats and button up shirts. Pate is also wearing a dark-colored vest and glasses.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Jonas Perkins Working on a Sculptor]

Description: Photograph of Jonas Perkins making a sculpture at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing to the right of his sculpture, wearing a brown cowboy hat, a blue button-up shirt and jeans. The sculpture is of a man in western wear, and is about three feet tall. It is a dark color and could be made of either wood or metal.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Joseph Kaspar, Czech Accordionist]

Description: Photograph of Czech accordionist Joseph Kaspar at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting with his red accordion in front of two microphones. He is an elderly man, wearing a brown fedora, white shirt with floral trim, and navy pants. He has blue eyes and is wearing glasses.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Klompen Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Klompen Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Couples of dancers holding each other at the waist are dancing side by side but facing opposite directions. The women are wearing peasant-style dresses with skirts, aprons and bonnets. The men are wearing blue shirts, dark pants, red bandanas around their necks and black caps. All the dancers are wearing wooden clogs.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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