Texas Folklife Festival Collection - 467 Matching Results

Search Results

[Ukranian Dancers Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Ten female dancers are lined up onstage side-by-side holding hands in a criss-cross fashion. They are all kicking their right leg out in front of them. Their costumes are traditional folkwear: peasant blouses, floral skirts, aprons, headbands made of flowers, and knee-high boots. Attached to the back of the headbands are long ribbons.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[United Fiddlers Association Performing]

Description: Photograph of Chris Lay and Norma Wiemers, members of the United Fiddlers Association, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Lay is on the left playing fiddle and Wiemers is in the middle playing a guitar. Sitting on the right, another man is playing a guitar. Lay and Wiemers are looking at each other as they play. They are both wearing cowboy hats, white shirts, and dark pants. In the background some square hay bales and a barn door is visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[W. P. Pak at Korean Booth]

Description: Photograph of W. P. Pak at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing traditional clothing including a straw hat with a wide brim and a tall crown that is flat on top. He is standing in front of the Korean food booth, wearing a sword in a scabbard and holding a very long thin pipe. A couple of workers are visible behind the booth. The front of the booth reads, "Korea," and at the top of it signs are advertising some of the food options as well as where to order.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Making Alabama Coushatta Fry Bread]

Description: Photograph of an American Indian woman making Alabama-Coushatta Fry Bread at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting in front of an outdoor stove placing pieces of rolled-out dough into a cast iron frying pan full of oil. To the left on a small table is an industrial-sized silver kitchen bowl filled with finished fry breads, ready to be served. The woman is wearing a red shirt with rainbow zig-zag stripes on the sleeves.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Making Tortillas]

Description: Photograph of a woman making tortillas in the Mexican food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing sunglasses, a hot pink dress with puffy sleeves and a dark blue apron with thin, horizontal, multi-colored stripes. She is standing in front of a large flat-top grill, flipping tortillas with a spatula. A large tank of propane is on the other side of the grill. In the background, other women at the booth are visible.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Preparing Pico de Gallo]

Description: Photograph of a woman preparing pico de gallo in the Mexican food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She has short, dark, curly hair and is wearing glasses, a white dress with a colorful embroidered floral pattern on the chest, and an apron. She is mixing a brown ceramic bowl of pico de gallo. In front of her on the counter is a cutting board with sliced tomatoes on it, and a small bunch of cilantro. The counter is covered with a mexican-style table cloth, striped with colors of yellow, pinkā€¦ more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Spinning and Weaving]

Description: Photograph of a woman weaving on a small table-top loom at the Texas Folklife Festival. Numerous threads are strung throughout the loom. The woman is standing on the right side of the loom, handling the threads. She is wearing an apron and a bandana wrapped around her forehead.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Women Making Tortillas]

Description: Photograph of two women making tortillas in the Mexican food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are standing next to a flat grill with tortillas on it. They are both wearing white blouses and pink and white aprons as they pat out the next tortillas to be grilled. In the left foreground is a pole decorated with artificial flowers. In the background, the rest of the Mexican area is visible; fiesta streamers are strung between trees.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Women of the Duckens Family Performing]

Description: Photograph of several women of the Duckens Family Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Approximately ten female singers are gathered in groups around three microphones. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the area.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Women Preparing Food at Khmer Food Booth]

Description: Photograph of women preparing food in the Khmer food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. In the foreground a woman in an ethnic fuchsia skirt and yellow top is spooning something into a deep fryer. To her right is a woman wearing a yellow top and a red skirt. On the counter in front of them are two bunches of bananas and a dish of food covered in foil. Behind them, two other women stand watching.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boy Participating in Watermelon Spitting Contest]

Description: Photograph of a young boy competing in the watermelon spitting contest at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing at the edge of a tarp marked with numbers to denote distance. He is leaning forward, puckering his lips to spit a watermelon seed. A woman standing behind him is holding a broom. A crowd of spectators is gathered around closely.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
Back to Top of Screen