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[Demonstration Using a Froe and Mallet]

Description: Slide of Bill Lindig using a froe and mallet to turn logs into shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival. There is a log standing on a stump and Lindig is hammering a froe into the log to shave shingles out of it. There are scattered spectators behind him and a pile of shingles in front.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Desert Plants Display]

Description: Slide of Dewey Compton, agricultural reporter for KTRH Radio in Houston, Texas, shows off his display of desert plants. The plants, including cacti, are sitting on a table. There are people looking at the various flora at the Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Dinah Crowley Creating Stained Glass]

Description: Slide of Dinah Crowley of San Antonio making stained glass at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is hunched over a table that is covered in tools and gadgets used for making stained glass. Behind her is a table with lamps that have stained glass lamp shades and directly behind her is a tall panel of stained glass.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Display of Guns by the Alamo Muzzle Loading Gun Club]

Description: Slide of the Alamo Muzzle Loading Gun Club displaying period guns on large boards. There are two people behind a table who are in the club, one is a woman in period clothing and a man with a large gun resting on his shoulder. In front of them is a table with various samples of ammunition and there is a group of boys observing the display. The club set up their display at the Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[East Texas String Ensemble Performance]

Description: Slide of the East Texas String Ensemble from Nacadoches, Texas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are four men in the ensemble, three of which are wearing cowboy hats. There are two members in the foreground sharing a microphone. The third member to the left has his own microphone and the fourth doesn't have one at all. There are people around the ensemble listening to their music. Left to right: Tom Noll, "Ab" Abernethy, Stan Alexander, Charles Gardner.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[English Pub Serving Customers]

Description: Slide of a British pub sponsored by the British Sporting club of San Antonio at the Texas Folklife Festival. To the right is a bar or counter of sorts where people are operating the pub. In the foreground is a group of four sitting at the table and in the background is a man playing darts.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Entrance to Mexican Market]

Description: Slide of the Mexican Market of the Texas Folklife Festival. This is a sampler of "Night in Old San Antonio" sponsored by the San Antonio Conservation Society. The entrance is bright red with a red and yellow sign overhead. There is a yellow flower painted on it with 1974 in blue painted in the center. Above the flower is the word "mercado" (Spanish for "market") painted in green letters.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Exotic Country Band Performance]

Description: Slide of the Exotic Country Band, directed by Gary Dodd, from San Antonio, Texas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are five members in the band playing various instruments, such as the saxophone and drums. Around the band members are large pieces of electronic equipment, possibly amps.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Los Flamencos de San Antonio Performance]

Description: Slide of Ricardo Castellano (foreground left) and Teresa Champion (foreground right) are performing Fandangos de Huelva at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are a part of Los Flamencos de San Antonio. The pair are in a flamboyant dancing costumes and have their wrists crossed in front of their body as a part of a dance move in their choreography. There are guitarists in the background playing the music to which Castellano and Champion are dancing.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Los Flamencos de San Antonio Performing Fandangos de Huelva]

Description: Slide of Ricardo Castellano (foreground left) and Teresa Champion (foreground right) are performing Fandangos de Huelva at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are a part of Los Flamencos de San Antonio. Castellano and Champion are facing the same direction, Castellano behind her, and they both have their right hands extended as a part of a dance move in their choreography. There are also other dancers performing with them and guitarists in the background playing the music to which they are dancin… more
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[Froe and Mallet Instruction]

Description: Slide of Fire Chief Delbert Teutsch instructing a young boy of how to use a frow and mallet to chop off a block of wood in the Grandpa's Tool Shed section of the Texas Folklife Festival in the. Teutsch is sitting on a stump overseeing the young boy's actions.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[German Food Booth]

Description: Slide of a German food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The booth serves sausage on a stick with a piece of bread on top. There are three people behind the counter waiting for customers. There are many prepared sausages on sticks laid out in front of them.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]

[German Kitchen Craft]

Description: Slide of Cynthia North molding baker's clay to demonstrate German kitchen craft at the Texas Folklife Festival. North is in the foreground with a young girl to her left who is also molding clay and to North's right are many finished crafts in baskets. In front of North is a table covered in large mixing bowls, a hand mixer, a rolling pin and other kitchen gadgets.
Date: [1974-09-12..1974-09-15]
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