Photograph of Ace Reid, cartoonist and humorist from Kerrville, on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, and a plaid shirt, he is speaking into a microphone which he is holding.
Photograph of Ace Reid, cartoonist and humorist from Kerrville, on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, and a plaid shirt, he is speaking into a microphone which he is holding. Behind him a rocking chair and a small hay bale is visible.
Photograph taken from the roof of the Institute of Texan Cultures building during the Texas Folklife Festival opening ceremonies in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground is a walkway leading from the building to the rest of the festival grounds. In the background is a group of flag poles. The area is filled with people walking around.
Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer performing with rings at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is in the middle of the stage dancing with a group of about fifteen rings, each one placed in a specific location around his body. He is wearing traditional tribal clothing with a fringed tunic and fur around his ankles and lower legs.
Photograph of two Alabama-Coushatta dancers talking to each other at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are both wearing heavily decorated traditional outfits covered in beads and fringe. The dancer on the right is wearing colors of red, white, and blue; the one on the left is wearing black, white, and blue. Each dancer has two large circular arrangements of feathers on their back. They are also wearing fur boots. Behind them a green shed and a yellow shed are visible.
Photograph of Sue Daeschner, of the Alamo Bobbin Lacers, making lace at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting on the right in the foreground with a large round cushion on the table in front of her. The piece that she is working on is attached to the cushion. She is using several bobbins to make the design, about 25 or so, each loaded with purple string. They are roughly the size and shape of pencils. The string from each bobbin has already been worked into the lace, and she is crossing them over one another to carefully weave the intricate design. To the left of Daeschner, another woman, Col. Lois MacTaggart (US Army, Ret.), is also making bobbin lace. In the left foreground, some finished pieces on display are partially visible.
Photograph of Allen Damron and Guich Koock on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are sitting on a square hay bale, Damron on the left and Koock on the right. Damron is playing guitar while Koock holds a microphone to his mouth.
Photograph of Ace Reid and Paul Patterson on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Patterson is standing on the right and speaking into a microphone while Reid is sitting on the left. They are both wearing cowboy hats. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wooden house front.
Photograph of Allen Damron playing acoustic guitar at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a white shirt and jeans, and has brown hair and a beard.
Photograph of the Alsatian Dancers of Texas posing for a photo at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group consisting of women, children, and a man, all wearing traditional Alsatian clothing are gathered together facing the camera. The women are wearing the traditional giant bow bonnet with their folk dresses and aprons. The man and boys are wearing dark, flat-brimmed hats with vests, and string bow-ties.
Photograph of Alvin Sueltenfuss at the winemaking booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a plaid short-sleeved button-up shirt, and Texas-shaped sunglasses. On his shirt he is wearing a name badge with a red ribbon. The table in front of him is covered with a red tablecloth and contains seven bottles of wine. The bottles are not conventional wine bottles; instead they are shaped more like liquor bottles with simple, white labels. Behind the bottles are some information pamphlets.
Photograph of the Amelab Lebanese Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear traditional Lebanese clothing as they perform in front of a large crowd of festival-participants.
Photograph of an Ameleb Lebanese Dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a silver belly dancing outfit, with a sheer blue skirt. She is dancing onstage alone with a few spectators visible in the background.
Photograph of the Ameleb Lebanese Dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival. Five men are side-by-side onstage with hands on each other's shoulders, kicking their feet. They are wearing green v-neck shirts, gold sashes around their waists, dark pants, and brown boots. Behind them, hanging across the back of the stage is a Lebanese flag. Offstage to the right, Lebanese women in traditional clothing are visible.
Photograph of a Texas Indian Heritage Society dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing traditional Indian clothing: a red tunic with long yellow fringe that hangs down from his shoulders, a colorful beaded sash and headband, and feathers fanning out from the back of his head. He is also wearing a yellow bandana. A black stripe is painted on his face, across his eyes. Behind him an elaborate headdress he is wearing on his back is partially visible.
Photograph of a Texas Indian Heritage Society dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a blue shirt and several red, white, and blue beaded necklaces. She also has a small feather plume in her hair. Some red and blue feathers are visible in the bottom right of the photograph. It looks like she is holding them but her hands are not visible. She is smiling at the camera and standing in front of a tall bush.
Photograph of Amira Andera preparing food in the Lebanese food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is pouring salt into a large white bucket that is sitting on the table in front of her. Other tables and the tent overhead are visible in the background, as well as a man standing on a chair.
Photograph of dancers from the Anjali School of Indian Dance and Music at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Four dancers sit in a square with bowls raised above their heads, wearing traditional Indian clothing. Many festival-goers watch the performance.
Photograph of Anne Marrou at a chuck wagon speaking to festival visitors at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a purple pioneer dress with a matching bonnet, facing the visitors who are on the right. On display on the chuck wagon's fold down table are three different kinds of rope, an antique rolling pin and wooden bowl, an iron rod, and a few types of barbed wire. Other festival booths are visible in the background.
Photograph of a woman and a young boy operating an antique corn sheller at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman, standing on the right, is inserting pieces of corn into the machine while a little boy turns a crank on the left. The kernels are gathered in a bin near the ground.
Photograph of Ardy Feike preparing sausage in the smokehouse booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. Working atop a wooden table, he has packed ground meat into a metal chamber and is lowering a press to squeeze the meat out into casing to form sausages. To the left of him, prepared sausages are visible. On the right is a tray of ground meat, ready to be stuffed into sausages.
Photograph of Arnold Griffin, from Devine, on the storytelling stage with Ace Reid and emcee Rosemary Davis at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. All three are sitting in rocking chairs, with Reid on the left, Griffin in the center, and Davis on the right. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wooden house front.
Photograph of Arnold Griffin, from Devine, on the storytelling stage with Ace Reid at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt, Devine is in the foreground sitting in a rocking chair and speaking into a microphone. Reid is in the middle ground, also sitting in a rocking chair.
Photograph of Arnold Griffin with antique tools at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is standing behind a booth that has several axes and other woodcutting tools displayed on the counter. He is wearing a leather vest, a leather cowboy hat, a western shirt, khaki pants and black-rimmed glasses. He is holding a large axe that has a blade much longer than its head. The booth's counter curves back behind him and is covered with several other antique tools.
Photograph of an audience at the storytelling stage listening to Arnold Griffin at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are sitting on wooden benches under a shade canopy. A man in the background is standing and waving his hand toward the camera.
Photograph of dancers from the Ballet Azteca performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The dancers wear elaborate dresses with layers of ruffles on the skirt, bodice, and sleeves. The two girls wear their hair pulled back and secured with flower pins, holding onto their skirts as they dance.
Photograph of Ballet Folklorico dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The women are wearing long colorful dresses which they are twirling around onstage, in front of long orange and red banners that are hanging at the back of the stage. The one male dancer is wearing a white charro suit with a sombrero.
Photograph of Ballet Folklorico de Navarro performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. The photograph is taken from a distance and shows an entire stage of male and female dancers, all wearing traditional Latin American clothing. The men are in the front of the stage kneeling down while the women are in the back twirling their skirts. Crowds of festival visitors are gathered at the front and the sides of the stage. Stacks of speakers are visible at the two front corners of the stage. A shade canopy is hanging over the area.
Photograph of a dancer from the Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The young girl wears an elaborate traditional Mexican dress covered in lace paneling, gathers, and ribbon embroidery. Her hair is tied into two braids with colored ribbons as she walks across the stage.
Photograph of a dancer from the Ballet Folklorico de San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The young girl wears an elaborate traditional Mexican dress covered in lace paneling, gathers, and ribbon embroidery. Her hair is tied into two braids with colored ribbons as she dances across the stage.
Photograph of the band Hickory performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A member of the band stands on a stage wearing a black sleeveless shirt, jeans, and a red bandanna around his neck while playing an orange and red electric guitar.
Photograph of a member of the band Hickory performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band member is wearing a sleeveless shirt decorated with beads, a silver belt, and jeans. She holds a microphone with her left hand, and the cord of the microphone with her right hand. Her hair is curled and hanging loose on her shoulders.
Photograph of a member of the band Hickory performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band member is wearing a sleeveless shirt decorated with beads and singing into a microphone. Her hair is curled and hanging loose on her shoulders.
Photograph of a member of the band Hickory performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band member is playing the electric guitar and wearing a black sleeveless shirt, jeans, and a bandanna tied around his neck.
Photograph of blacksmith Basil Garcia at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is in the foreground wearing jeans, suspenders, a navy t-shirt, and a black cap. He is standing behind an anvil, hammering a hot piece of metal over it. On the stand with the anvil is a variety of blacksmithing tools: different hammers, and tools for holding and shaping the metal. Behind Garcia to the right is the forge, which has flames emanating from it. Standing behind the forge is a woman wearing a blue shirt and a confederate flag bandana on her head.
Photograph of reenactors performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two men dressed in military uniforms lean on a cannon. A third man in modern dress leans on the wheel of the canon. Other festival participants interact with the reenactors.
Photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Six women are lined up onstage behind microphones all wearing the same pink shirt and navy skirt except the woman on the very right who is wearing pink pants and a white shirt. This woman is holding a songbook and singing into a microphone. The woman to the left of her is also singing. The other women are not singing.
Photograph of Bea Garrison, from Utopia, telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a pioneer dress, a bonnet, and wire frame glasses, she is sitting in a rocking chair and is speaking into a microphone.
Photograph of Bea Garrison, a storyteller from Utopia, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bea sits in a rocking chair, holding a microphone to her mouth. She wears a white lace apron over a striped dress as she gestures to an audience.
Photograph of Bea Garrison, from Utopia, telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a long gingham skirt and sitting in a rocking chair on the right, she is facing a young girl with pigtails who is sitting on a square hay bale on the left. Behind them is a painted backdrop of a wooden house front.
Photograph of a beekeeper at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The beekeeper leans over a table, holding onto a beehive encased in glass and wood. A young boy stands on the other side of the table, looking at the beehive. Festival participants walk among the booths to the left and right of the beekeeper.
Photograph of the Beethoven Maennerchor Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band stands underneath a canopied pavilion, wearing historically German clothing. A man to the left of the photograph plays the accordion, while a long line of women stand behind him, holding small booklets and singing.
Photograph of Beverly Houston performing with her band "Breezin'" onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is standing in the middle of the stage singing into a microphone. To the left of her are two guitar players. To the right, a man is playing a shaker and another man is standing behind a microphone. Three of the band members are wearing a "Breezin'" t-shirt. The two musicians on the right and Houston are wearing "Breezin'" baseball caps. A drum set and several amplifiers sit at the back of the stage. A large banner that says, "HICKORY" is hung across the back of the stage.
Photograph of Big Rodger Collins performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Roger wears a three-piece suit and a matching hat as he stands on a stage, singing into a corded microphone.
Photograph of Bill Clark making a shingle at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is straddling a work bench with the piece of wood in front of him. He is using a drawknife to shave the piece down to the proper shape. He is wearing overalls, sunglasses, and a straw cowboy hat.
Photograph of Bill Clark making shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is straddling a wooden work bench shaving a flat piece of wood with a drawknife. He is wearing glasses, a straw cowboy hat, a brown shirt, and overalls.
Photograph of Bill Corkery telling a story on the storytelling stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is sitting on a hay bale, wearing a cowboy hat and speaking into a microphone. In the left foreground, two young audience members are sitting on the edge of the stage. The backdrop of the stage is painted to look like a wooden house front.
Photograph of Bill Sallee telling a story onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two young girls with pigtails are sitting on the edge of the stage in front of him; the one on the left is holding a small wooden box. Sallee is sitting in a rocking chair, holding a microphone in one hand and a cowbell in the other. He has curly, bushy hair and is wearing glasses.
Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, Bill Smallwood is playing banjo and singing. Other band members performing include a harmonica player at center stage, a man in the back playing drums, and a man playing washtub bass on the right.
Photograph of the Bill Smallwood Band performing on a covered stage at the Texas Folklife Festival. At center stage, Bill Smallwood is playing banjo and singing. Other band members performing include a woman on the left playing keyboards, a man in the back playing drums, and a bassist on the right.
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