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[Child Sliding Down Berm at Institute of Texas Cultures]

Description: Color photograph of a young girl sliding down the berm at the Institute of Texas Cultures during the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975 in San Antonio, Texas. The girl in the photograph is tumbling out of a cardboard box and down the grass hill. She is wearing a navy shirt, pale blue shorts, and tan leather sandals.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck

[Pudding Eating Contest]

Description: Photograph of a pudding eating competition at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. In the photograph, two blindfolded women stand on a stage covered in yellow plastic protective coverings. The woman on the right is holding the bowl of chocolate pudding as she directs the spoon towards the other woman's mouth.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]

[Irish Folk Dancers at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of the E.I.R.E. dancers from Houston, Texas, performing Irish folk dances for the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. The dancers consist of four couples performing a dance on a stage. A large crowd is watching from the lawn as the dancers spin around. The women are wearing matching white sleeveless dresses with heavy embroidery around the neck. The men are wearing traditional Irish costume of white blouses and golden kilts with green cummerbunds.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]

[Sakae Ogama Writing Calligraphy at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Sakae Ogama, demonstrating Japanese brush writing at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas in August of 1975. In the photograph, Sakae is seated at a table wearing a traditional kimono. She is holding onto a long sheet of paper with her left hand, and writing with a bamboo brush with her right hand. A young girl and a woman watch as Sakae creates the Japanese forms.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]

[San Antonio Ameleb Club Lebanese Dancers]

Description: Photograph of five women performing Lebanese dances at the 1975 Folklife Festival as members of the San Antonio Ameleb Club. They are wearing traditional dancing costumes called bedlahs that consist of gold-trimmed brassieres and sheer, flowing skirts of different colors. Each woman is holding a tambourine above her head.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck

[Polish Dragon at 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of a several people dressed in a dragon costume surrounded by other fair goers at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975.. One man makes up the long next, head, and front legs of the dragon. Another woman is visible behind the man, supporting the back of the dragon. A woman, Valerie Grace, is walking to the right of the dragon wearing a traditional Polish costume.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]

[Lanie Karam, Ameleb Club Dancer]

Description: Photograph of Lanie Karam, a dancer and member of the San Antonio Ameleb Club, performing in a covered pavilion on a wide, white floor. A covered fabric tent is visible behind her. She is costumed in a bedlah suit (a bra and a sheer skirt) that is heavily trimmed with gold accents. Audience members are visible in both the foreground and the background.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck

[Jo Ann Andera, Dancer with the San Antonio Ameleb Club]

Description: Photograph of Jo Ann Andera, a dancer and member of the San Antonio Ameleb Club, and an employee of the Institute of Texas Cultures. She is performing in a covered pavilion on a wide, white floor. A covered fabric tent is visible behind her. She is costumed in a bedlah suit (a bra and a sheer skirt) that is heavily trimmed with gold accents. She is dancing with her arms out while her face is mid-exclamation. Audience members are visible in both the foreground and the background.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck

[Jo Ann Andera, San Antonio Ameleb Club Dancer]

Description: Photograph of Jo Ann Andera, a dancer with the San Antonio Ameleb Club dancer and an employee at the Institute of Texan Cultures. Andera is seated on her legs with her arms curled slightly above her, smiling as she bends over backward to face the crowd. She is wearing a traditional bedlah suit; hers is a gold-trimmed top and a sheer, beige skirt. She is also wearing gold bangles on both her wrists. The heads of two audience members are visible in the foreground; the person on the right is poi… more
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck

[Jerry Young at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Jerry Young from Devine, Texas, serving molasses at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas in August of 1975. Jerry sits on a white upturned bucket with a large metal ladle in his hands. He wears a light-colored cowboy hat, denim long-sleeve shirt, and khaki pants. Another man stands behind Jerry, holding a long stick he appears to be using to stir the molasses. Another man stands behind him, while a woman looks on from behind a stone wall.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]

[Corn Shucking at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of a young girl vigorously turning the handle of an antique corn sheller in Hondo's Corn Shuckin' and Shellin' area at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. In the photograph, the girl is wearing a pink and white flowery swimsuit. The bodies of three women and a man are visible around the girl, although the frame of the photograph crops their faces out of the frame.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
Creator: Snyder, Chuck

[Don Vogel at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Color photograph of Don Vogel splitting shingles for a log house at the 4th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in August of 1975. In the photograph, Don straddles a sawhorse as he adjusts a piece of wood he is about to split. He is wearing a light denim shirt and dark denim jeans. Festival booths and people walking about are visible behind him.
Date: [1975-08-07..1975-08-10]
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