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Actors at HemisFair '68

Description: Photograph of female actors in a play at HemisFair '68, including two adult actors standing to the left -- one wearing a tiger-like costume and the other dressed in an oriental-patterned robe. A small group of child actors are kneeling in the background to the right, and some are wearing Oriental-type dresses.
Date: [1968-04..1968-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bill Couger with Two Mules]

Description: Photograph of Bill Couger with a team of two mules. Couger is wearing a hat, buttoned shirt, and dirty blue jeans. The group is standing on a field in front of a wooden fence.
Date: April 8, 1949
Creator: Wallace, Sally Brittingham
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

Birthday Party

Description: Photograph of elderly man seated at table with birthday cake. Birthday party was for 104-year-old man, Thomas Riddle.
Date: April 16, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Boat on Lake]

Description: Photograph of a boat in the water at the lake. John W. Gainer was a partner in the Hammerman and Gainer Insurance Company in Austin.
Date: April 19, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Boat on Lake]

Description: Photograph of a man drving a boat on the lake. John W. Gainer was a partner in the Hammerman and Gainer Insurance Company in Austin.
Date: April 19, 1940
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Bob Hope

Description: A close-up profile view of Bob Hope speaking to or entertaining a group of people. Bob Hope was one of the entertainers who performed in the convention center theater at HemisFair '68.
Date: [1968-04..1968-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Choir Singing in a Stadium]

Description: Photograph of a choir of teenagers singing in an open air stadium. The young men and women are wearing long robes and stoles and are being conducted by a woman wearing a black hood and dress. A pianist and piano is partially visible to the left of the choir. Audience members are visible behind the choir and the majority are covered by a canopy.
Date: April 1961
Creator: Dietel, Norman
Partner: LBJ Museum of San Marcos

Colombia Pavilion

Description: Image of the Colombia Pavilion at the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: [1968-04..1968-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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