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[Accordionist at Polish Booth]

Description: Photograph of a male accordionist performing in the Polish booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is looking at the camera and leaning backwards as he plays his black and white accordion. He is wearing a patterned head wrap and a black vest with red, green and yellow detail. A sign behind him says, "Only 6 tickets, Polish Sausage".
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Accordionist for Round Top Brass Band]

Description: Photograph of a male accordionist performing with the Round Top Brass Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has a handlebar mustache and is smiling as he plays his black and white accordion. He is wearing a brown corduroy visor and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Accordionist with Round Top Brass Band]

Description: Photograph of a male accordionist performing with the Round Top Brass Band at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has a mustache and is playing a black and white accordion. He is wearing a brown corduroy visor and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. A tuba player is visible behind him on the right.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Alabama-Coushatta Dancers]

Description: Photograph of a group of Alabama-Coushatta dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Standing on the left are three boys in traditional clothing: fluffy fur boots, red and orange shirts and skirts, beaded sashes, and fans of feathers on their backs. A young girl is standing in the middle wearing pigtails, and a brown blouse and skirt with yellow and orange trim. On the right is a woman in a green dress with orange and yellow trim, wearing a beaded crown and a sash that says,… more
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Alabama-Coushatta Indian Dancer]

Description: Photograph of an Alabama-Coushatta dancer at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is in traditional dress: shirtless, with a red and black beaded necklace; a blue beaded sash; a light blue beaded headband; a brown, black, and white, feather mohawk; and a fan of blue, white, pink, and black, feathers on his back. Another Indian boy is to the left in a predominately green outfit.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Alamo City Highlanders Performing]

Description: Photograph of the Alamo City Highlanders performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band members are standing in a circle, with the band leader in the center. Everyone is in Highland dress and playing a bagpipe. The band leader is wearing a traditional feather bonnet and holding a baton.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Alvina Paul Cutting Dough to Make Wendish Noodles]

Description: Photograph of Alvina Paul slicing dough to make Wendish noodles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, a shawl, and an apron as she cuts thin pieces of dough, adding them to a pile of noodles on the left.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Alvina Paul Holding Wendish Noodles]

Description: Photograph of Alvina Paul holding a pile of Wendish noodles in the Wendish Heritage Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The noodles are thinly cut and have not yet been cooked. Alvina is wearing a white blouse with a red shawl and a red and white bonnet.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Alvina Paul Making Noodles]

Description: Photograph of Alvina Paul showing how to make noodles in the Wendish Heritage Society booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. With a rolling pin, she is rolling out the dough from which she will cut the noodles. She is wearing a red bonnet, glasses, a white blouse, and a white apron. Two women are watching her from the other side of the table.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Alvina Paul Preparing Wendish Noodles]

Description: Photograph of Alvina Paul slicing dough to make Wendish noodles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a bonnet, a shawl, and an apron as she cuts thin pieces of dough, adding them to a pile of noodles on the left.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Ameleb Lebanese Dancer]

Description: Photograph of an Ameleb Lebanese dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She has curly brown hair and is wearing a cream-colored belly-dancing outfit, decorated with gold coins. Two other dancers are visible in the background.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[American Honey Princess at Beekeeper's Booth]

Description: Photograph of the American Honey Princess giving samples of honey in the beekeeper's booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is standing in the left foreground giving a spoonful of honey to a festival visitor to sample. She is wearing a white dress, a tiara, and a sash displaying her title. An assortment of honey jars are displayed on the table in front of her. In the middle ground, another woman behind the booth is giving a sample to another visitor.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Andy Owens Carving the F Hole of a Violin]

Description: Photograph of Andy Owens, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Crouched down beside his work surface, he is carving one of the F holes out of a violin. He has curly brown hair and a medium-length beard.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Andy Owens Making an Instrument]

Description: Photograph of Andy Owens, from Old Time String Shop in Nacogdoches, Texas, making an instrument at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The open body of the instrument is being held by a vice while he works on the inside of it. Owens, wearing a plaid shirt, has shaggy brown hair and a dense beard.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Bagpipers of the Alamo City Highlanders Performing]

Description: Photograph of two pipers of the Alamo City Highlanders performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing traditional Highland dress, they are playing the bagpipes next to other band members.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Banjo Player with the Bluegrass Kinfolks]

Description: Photograph of the banjo player for the Bluegrass Kinfolks performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a white cowboy hat and a green patterned shirt, playing his banjo into a microphone.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Basil Garcia Giving Blacksmithing Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Basil Garcia giving a blacksmithing demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is in the foreground, wearing a blue and navy striped shirt, a straw cowboy hat, and jeans, standing next to a forge with a large open flame. An anvil and mallet are visible in the middle ground. Directly behind it, a group of five children and three adults are watching the demonstration.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Bassist for Backwoods Volunteers Bluegrass Band]

Description: Photograph of the stand-up bassist for the Backwoods Volunteers Bluegrass Band performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a white shirt with blue trim and jeans. She has light brown curly hair and is singing into a microphone as she plays.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Belgium Mast]

Description: Photograph of a man hanging on to the top of a mast. The mast, which is raised quite high, has a cowbell attached at the top of it. Individuals on the ground look on. A booth in the background is decorated with a banner which is meant to look like the Belgian flag.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Smith, Jim

[Bill Clayton and Pat Thatcher at Opening Ceremonies]

Description: Photograph of Texas House Speaker Bill Clayton with ITC exhibit floor manager, Pat Thatcher, at the Texas Folklife Festival opening ceremony. Clayton is on the right, standing next to a few other men. Thatcher is standing just to the left of him, wearing a dress from the early 20th century and a wide-brimmed hat decorated with flowers.
Date: August 2, 1979
Creator: Informedia

[Bill Clayton Cutting Ribbon at Opening Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of Texas House Speaker, Bill Clayton, cutting a red and yellow ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has short gray hair and is wearing a white shirt with a tie. Standing next to him on the left is a woman wearing a white Kentucky Derby-style dress and hat. She is waving with her hand up in the air. Standing to the right of Clayton is a tall man with a dark beard wearing an off-white shirt and beige pants. The Institute of Texan Cult… more
Date: August 2, 1979
Creator: Informedia

[Bill Sallee Making Whistles]

Description: Photograph of Bill Sallee, from Trader's Village in Grand Prairie, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a straw cowboy hat and big, black frame glasses, he is sitting at a table carving out a whistle from elm bark.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Black and White Chicken Flying Out of a Mailbox]

Description: Photograph of a white chicken with black speckles flying out of a mailbox as part of the chicken flying contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The mailbox is white and has a red chicken painted on it.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia

[Blacksmithing Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a brown-haired man giving a blacksmithing demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is in the foreground, wearing a white t-shirt and jeans, as he hammers a hot piece of metal on an anvil. A forge with an open flame is visible in the right middle ground.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
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