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[Photograph of Tex Ritter in Concert]

Description: Tex Ritter performing onstage with a band. He is on the left of the photograph playing a guitar and standing in front of a microphone. A man wearing glasses plays drums behind Ritter. On the right side of the photo, a man with a fiddle stands in front of another bespectacled man. The background of the stage is painted in the image of a downtown business scene.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Portrait of Clarence Henry with a Stuffed Frog]

Description: Photograph of Clarence "Frogman" Henry lying on top of a piano. He is propped on his right arm and has his head in his left hand; there is a stuffed frog on his right shoulder, posed in the same way. Henry is wearing a suit with a light shirt, dark tie, and patterned jacket. Some of the piano keys are visible at the bottom of the image.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Elementary School Program]

Description: Photograph of a school program at Carver Elementary School. Children are seated on the stage with instruments, and a man in a black suit is standing in front of them conducting. There is a hand-painted mural in the background. The audience is partially visible in the bottom of the photograph.
Date: [1940..1950]
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Alamo City Highlanders]

Description: Black and white photograph of a group of men known as the Alamo City Highlanders playing the bagpipes in an organized formation at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are wearing traditional Scottish clothing, including kilts.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[A Cajun Band]

Description: Color photograph of a group of men performing Cajun music on a small, tent-covered stage at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The band includes a lead vocalist, two guitar players, a fiddler, a drummer and a lap steel guitar player.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bayou City Attic Singers]

Description: Color photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers comprised of three singers and a pianist, performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The singers are all female; one of them is much younger. They each have their own microphone. Various audio equipment lines the edge of the elevated stage where they are performing. The pianist is an older male, who also has a microphone in front of him. He is seated behind an upright wooden piano.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bruce Roark, Maker of Musical Instruments]

Description: Color photograph of an elderly man playing a wooden double-necked guitar at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Several more wooden stringed instruments are hanging on the wall behind him. The man is identified as Bruce Roark, who makes instruments.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bayou City Attic Singers]

Description: Color photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers comprised of four and a pianist; they are performers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Three of the singers are standing; there are two women and one man between them. One of the singers is much younger and is seated on a bench. They each have their own microphone. Various audio equipment lines the edge of the elevated stage where they are performing. The pianist is an older male, who also has a microphone in front of him. He is seated b… more
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Bass Box Players for The Hoboes]

Description: Black and white photograph of two men who are participants of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are playing bass boxes, instruments made from hollow, rectangular boxes with broomsticks that insert into the tops of the boxes. On the right is Bootsie Ehlers, sitting on top of his bass box while he plays. A microphone placed inside the opening at the front of his bass box picks up the sound of his playing.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Voices of the Mainland

Description: Black and white photograph of a band of four men performing together under the name "Voices of the Mainland" at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Each man has a microphone to sing into. The two men standing in the center are playing electric guitars as they sing.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woodrome Family Singers]

Description: Black and white photograph of a group of three people performing together as the Woodrome Singers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They each have a microphone. The man on the left is playing the guitar while he sings.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[High Society Jazz Band]

Description: Black and white photograph of a group of musicians performing together as The High Society Jazz Band at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. There is a man playing stand-up bass, a trumpet player, a banjo player, a trombone player, a clarinet player, and a child holding a recorder in his hands. A saxophone sits in a stand next to the clarinet player.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ray Baca Playing Hammer Dulcimer]

Description: Black and white photograph of Ray Baca playing the hammer dulcimer in The Gil Baca Band, of which he is a member. A band mate is playing a tuba behind him while another band mate plays the tambourine. They are performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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