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[Bill Brett, Rope Maker]

Description: Black and white photograph of Bill Brett, a man who makes ropes from horsehair; he is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is seated on a lawn chair, hand spinning fibers into workable material for making ropes -- some of which are hanging on a rope to the right.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]

[Bill Brett Spinning Horsehair Rope]

Description: Photograph of Bill Brett, postmaster from Hull, Texas, spinning horsehair rope and telling stories at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a gray collared shirt, a gray cowboy hat, and big glasses as he clutches a bundle of light-colored horsehair. He is looking up from his chair at someone or something.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

[Bill Brett with Horsehair Rope]

Description: Photograph of Bill Brett, postmaster from Hull, Texas, spinning horsehair rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a gray collared shirt, a gray cowboy hat, and big glasses as he clutches a bundle of light-colored horsehair and a completed rope.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

[Bill Burns of The Bluegrass Kinfolks]

Description: Color photograph of a man named Bill Burns playing the fiddle in a band known as The Bluegrass Kinfolks at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat and eyeglasses. A microphone on a microphone stand has been set before him to pick up the sound of his fiddle. A man playing the Dobro guitar is partially visible behind him to his left.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia

[Bill Clark, Axman]

Description: Photograph of Bill Clark, an axeman from Nacogdoches, working with an ax at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Clark is seated in front of a tree stump. He wears a straw hat, collared shirt with short sleeves, glasses, name tag, and overalls. A boy stands on the left. He wears a name tag, t-shirt, shorts, and fanny pack.
Date: [1992-08-06..1992-08-09]
Creator: Informedia

[Bill Clark Making a Shingle]

Description: 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.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

[Bill Clark Making Shingles]

Description: 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.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

[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 Corkery at the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of "Cowboy" Bill Corkery demonstrating rope techniques to children at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Bill is standing in a grassy area wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt, cowboy hat and tan belt. He is twirling a piece of rope tied into a circle with his mouth. Three girls to his left and one boy to his right are watching Bill as he performs.
Date: [1983-09-07..1983-09-10]
Creator: Smith, Jim

[Bill Corkery Making Adobe]

Description: Photograph of Bill Corkery demonstrating how to make adobe at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill leans over the pit of adobe, breaking weeds over the mixture, wearing a straw hat, a blue checkered shirt, denim jeans, and brown leather boots. Festival participants watch him as he makes the adobe.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]

[Bill Corkery Telling Story Onstage]

Description: 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.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Bill Leftwich Engraving Leather]

Description: Photograph of Bill Leftwich, western artist from Lubbock, engraving a scene on leather at the Texas Folklife Festival. With a mallet he is hammering a shaping tool into the leather to leave an impression. Hanging behind him are two portraits he has completed. His greased hair is partied in the middle and he is wearing black frame glasses and a dark shirt.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]

[Bill Lindig Splitting Shingles]

Description: Photograph of Bill Lindig splitting shingles at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill straddles a sawhorse as he cuts shingles from a block of wood. Festival participants are visible in the background, interacting with festival booths and watching festival demonstrations.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]

[Bill Morris]

Description: Photograph of Bill Morris performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Bill Morris is seated as he plays a guitar. He wears a vertically striped shirt, straw cowboy hat, name tag, and jeans.
Date: [1993-08-05..1993-08-08]

[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

[Bill Sallee Telling a Story]

Description: 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.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]

[Bill Shugart and the Texas Funteers]

Description: Photograph of Bill Shugart performing with the Texas Funteers at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Bill is playing a banjo on a stage with a Texas flag backdrop and a large canopy shading the performance area. He is wearing denim jeans with red suspenders, a striped tie, and brightly-colored pattern shirt, tucked into leather cowboy boots.
Date: [1983-09-07..1983-09-10]
Creator: Smith, Jim
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