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[Chicken Flying Contest]

Description: Photograph of a chicken flying contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man releases the opening of a mailbox mounted on a tall wooden stake. A chicken flies out of the mailbox as Festival participants watch from below.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Rush Candle Making]

Description: Photograph of a woman making candles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman dresses in pioneer clothing, with a checkered bonnet and dress, and a lace apron. She stirs the candle wax in a pot for the Cisco Civic League.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Rush Candle Making]

Description: Photograph of a boy learning how to spin wool at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Ruffin Hill sits next to the boy, showing him how to use the machine. The demonstration is part of the spinning and weaving school within the festival.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Weaving School]

Description: Photograph of children learning how to weave on a loom at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two boys and a girl lean over the intricate loom as festival volunteers assist the children.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Harlan Walker Splitting Shingles]

Description: Photograph of Harlan Walker splitting shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Harlan sits on a large log holding an axe. He wears a cowboy hat with a checkered shirt, jeans and cowboy boots as he demonstrates the technique.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Whittling School With Kirk Hunter]

Description: Photograph of Kirk Hunter performing a whittling demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Rick wears a plaid hat with a short-sleeved shirt and jeans. He squats beside a girl and a boy sitting on a hay bale, holding a small knife and a piece of wood in his hands. Both children watch as he shows them how to whittle a flower.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Handwriting Lesson]

Description: Photograph of Gerry Doyle giving handwriting lessons at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Gerry wears a blue and white checkered shirt with a brown belt and khaki pants. He writes the word "tear" in yellow chalk on a blackboard, as he points to calligraphic forms on a poster to his left.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jerky Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Phil Koehne and Eric Marley making jerky at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Phil, on the left, holds a piece of jerky out toward the photographer, while Eric holds a knife used to cut the strips of meat. The men are preparing the food at O.T. Baker's cookhouse.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Quilting Demonstration with Verna Trammell]

Description: Photograph of Verna Trammell demonstrating quilting techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Verna wears a red and white checkered shirt as she sits behind a table covered with a quilt of her own making. A woman wearing a red shirt with blue shorts stands behind her, leaning over the quilt and listening to Verna speak.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Voca Quilting Club]

Description: Photograph of the Voca Quilting Club demonstrating quilt-making at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman wearing a striped shirt sits behind a table, leaning over a large quilt that the group is creating.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Roofing Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a man roofing a log kitchen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The log cabin building demonstration features volunteers building an entire cabin by hand, to demonstration how shelter was built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the photograph, the man sits on the roof of the cabin, attaching shingles with a hammer.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Roofing a Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of a man roofing a log kitchen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The log cabin building demonstration features volunteers building an entire cabin by hand, to demonstration how shelter was built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the photograph, a man in a blue cap and shirt prepares the roof of the cabin to be shingled.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cabin Building Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a man roofing a log kitchen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The log cabin building demonstration features volunteers building an entire cabin by hand, to show how shelter was built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the photograph, several men balance on the roof of the cabin as they attach shingles. Festival participants watch the demonstration to the left of the cabin.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cabin Building Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a man roofing a log kitchen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The log cabin building demonstration features volunteers building an entire cabin by hand, to show how shelter was built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the photograph, a man in a blue cap and denim shorts attaches shingles to the roof of the cabin with a mallet. Festival participants watch the demonstration from underneath a shaded area.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Charley McTee, Fishing Expert]

Description: Photograph of Charley McTee discussing fishing techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Charley wears a white cowboy hat and a khaki shirt. He holds fishing tackles in both hands.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Quirt Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Johnny T. Neal Jr. working on a quirt handle at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Johnny wears a straw hat with a brown and white band, a plaid shirt, and denim jeans. He holds a small silver tool in his hand as he finishes the handle of a quirt, used to herd cattle.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pelt Displays]

Description: Photograph of Richard Rast at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Richard, a varmint hunter, displays his pelts to a festival participant, including skunk and squirrel.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pottery Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Pete Payne demonstrating pottery techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Pete stands behind a table with his hands immersed in a bowl of clay mixture. With his other hand, he forms a small pot as festival participants watch. Pete is a master potter from Marshall Pottery.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Alabama-Coushatta Dancers]

Description: Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dance performance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers perform on a concrete stage underneath a yellow and orange canopy. A large audience of festival participants sit along the edges of the stage as the dancers perform.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ballet Folklorico Dancer]

Description: Photograph of a member of the Ballet Folklorico performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancer wears a bright red dress trimmed in yellow ric-rac, and yellow, green, and pink ribbon. She wears a red sombrero on her head and white lace-up boots on her feet. A crowd of festival participants watches the performs on a grassy hill in front of the grey concrete stage.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Felicita Sosa Making Tortillas]

Description: Photograph of Felicita Sosa making tortillas at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Felicita wears a red shirt and a blue skirt with an apron tied around her waist. Her hands are emerged in a bowl of dough, mixing the ingredients required of tortilla making.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bayou City Attic Singers]

Description: Photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers performing at the Texas Folklife in San Antonio, Texas. Five women and two men perform on a raised platform underneath a canopy of palm leaves. The women wear denim skirts with matching vests, while the men wear denim pants with matching plaid shirts. One woman plays the acoustic guitar and one man plays the electric guitar, while the remaining five band members sing.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Mexican Market]

Description: Photograph of the Mexican market at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a woman uses a wooden rolling pin to form tortillas. Another woman, standing to her left, cooks the tortillas on the grill. A third woman and a man stand behind them, preparing other parts of the food available at the Mexican market.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Perini Ranch Chuck Wagon]

Description: Photograph of the Perini Ranch Chuck Wagon serving food at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two men stand behind a metal table, wearing black cowboy hats, brown leather belts and denim jeans, smiling for the photographer. The food booth, containing several metal tables for festival participants to sit and eat, as well as cooking stations, is shaded with brown canvas.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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