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[Woman Sitting at Booth with Rush Candles]

Description: Photograph of the Cisco Civic League's rush candles at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are displayed in a container consisting of a ceramic pot with a wagon wheel laid across the top. The candles are on long sticks and resemble pale hot dog wieners. They protrude out of the container like a bouquet. A woman wearing a yellow gingham apron, a red shirt, and a straw hat is sitting behind the booth.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]

[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]

[Woman Weaving on Loom]

Description: Photograph of Sandy Booth in a blue bonnet and a pioneer dress weaving on a table-top loom at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is a member of the Brazoria Militia reenactors showing Texas life in 1832.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Woman With Lamb in Her Lap]

Description: Photograph of a woman sitting with a beige lamb in her lap at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The lamb is from Swift Sheep Farm in Kingsbury, Texas. The woman, sitting in a lawn chair, is wearing a cap bearing the logo of the farm. She is talking to a man who is squatting on the ground on the right.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[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]

[Women of the Voices of Zion Community Choir Singing and Clapping]

Description: Photograph of the Voices of Zion Community Choir performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three female African-American vocalists are gathered around a microphone, singing and clapping their hands. The woman on the left is playing the tambourine. To the left of her, another woman is singing and clapping. A canopy of greenery hangs overhead.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]

[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]

[Wood Carving]

Description: Photograph of a child playing with toys at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The child wears a blue dress as she plays with a wooden figurine. A man and a woman smile as they watch her play.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Woodrome Family Singers]

Description: Photograph of a member of the Woodrome Family Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A woman, wearing a blue and white checkered dress embroidered with lace, sings into the microphone.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[Woodrome Family Singers]

Description: Photograph of a member of the Woodrome Family Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man, wearing a white baseball hat and a blue and white checkered shirt, plays guitar and sings into a microphone.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia

[The Woodromes]

Description: Photograph of the Woodromes performing at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The family band is performing on a blue stage with a vine covered canopy. Two women and two men stand behind microphones, singing to the audience. The man on the far left plays the electric guitar.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]

[The Woodromes Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Woodromes performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three children are singing into microphones, an older girl in the center wearing a long dress and a younger boy and girl on either side of her. The younger boy is on the left and to the left of him, a woman is kneeling down and helping him hold the microphone. The little girl on the right is also being assisted by a man on her right. The girl in the center is much taller than the younger boy and girl, as she looks to be a fe… more
Date: [1988-08-04..1988-08-07]

[Workers at Old Timey Popcorn Booth]

Description: Photograph of the Old Timey Popcorn booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing western and pioneer clothing, men and women from ITC Alliance (docent office) are operating the booth which contains an old fashioned popcorn machine on wheels.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]

[Workshop: Alternatives to Teenage Pregnancy and Drug and Alcohol Abuse]

Description: Program for a mini-workshop held at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School on April 17th, 1986. The workshop, titled "You Decide: Alternatives to Teenage Pregnancy, Alternatives to Drug and Alcohol Abuse," was hosted by the Links Incorporated San Antonio Chapter and the Martin Luther King Student Council.
Date: April 17, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.

[Workshop: Dreaming and Achieving]

Description: Program for a mini-workshop held at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School on October 14th, 1986. The workshop, titled "Dreaming and Achieving," was hosted by the Links Incorporated San Antonio Chapter and the Martin Luther King Student Council.
Date: October 14, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.

[Workshop for Individual Chapters of the Links, Incorporated]

Description: Informational text for the operation of individual chapters of the Links, Inc. - a national community service organization founded by professional women with various state and local branches. The document gives information on how to organize chapters, their fiscal structure, an annual calendar, and other administrative details.
Date: 1980
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.

[You and Your "Career"]

Description: Informational packet regarding careers and employment. The packet includes activity and informational sheets regarding employment. Cartoon figures demonstrating various careers appear on the front cover.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Southwestern Bell Telephone.

[Young Alabama-Coushatta Dancer]

Description: Photograph of a young Alabama-Coushatta dancer posing in front of a hedge at the Texas Folklife Festival. The boy is wearing a complete tribal outfit consisting of a vest, skirt, leather wrist cuffs, feathered and beaded arm bands, a beaded necklace and sash, a beaded headband, and a feathered headdress. The prominent colors of the clothing are red and yellow.
Date: [1988-08-04..1988-08-07]

[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]
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