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[Clayton Walters Demonstrating Iron Branding with the Pleasanton Cowboy Homecoming Association]

Description: Photograph of Clayton Walters demonstrating iron branding with the Pleasanton Cowboy Homecoming Association at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is standing behind a pile of iron brands, and other people and bales of hay are visible in the background.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Primitive Wood Craft Booth]

Description: Photograph of three people at the Primitive Wood Craft booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A young boy is using a handmade tool while a boy in a white shirt holds up a piece of wood for him. An older man is sitting next to them.
Date: [1996-08-01..1996-08-04]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy and Girl Next to Heidelberg Press]

Description: Photograph of unidentified school-age children next to a Heidelberg press. The photograph was taken candidly, while both boy and girl were directing their sight off camera. The boy wears a multicolored striped shirt. His companion, behind him, is wearing a purple shirt and matching scrunchie. Although no accompanying information has been provided, they were most likely visiting the Urban Communications Inc. facility as part of a tour or field trip. The Heidelberg press, behind them, is used for… more
Date: 1995
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Gates Elementary Students and Teacher Inside Urban Communications Inc. Facility]

Description: Photograph of unidentified Gates Elementary children and their teacher inside the Urban Communications In. facility, a San Antonio-based business responsible for commercial printing and publishing. The students have their backs to the camera, and are facing a camcorder instead. The video camera is set on a tripod and being operated by a man in a green shirt and denim jeans, who is presumably about to interview the students. Their teacher, dressed in formal attire, stands near the camcorder. Beh… more
Date: 1995
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[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]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Making Tool Handle]

Description: Photograph of the Marilyn Barton making a wooden tool handle at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting across from a young girl who is helping her. They are both straddling a log bench and holding the wooden handle in between them. The young girl is holding some kind of tool in her right hand.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Native American Tools at Smokehouse]

Description: Photograph of the Native American tools displayed on a table at the Texas Folklife Festival. Materials such as wood, stone, and feathers are arranged on the table. A group of young festival visitors are gathered around the table while a man speaks to them about the tools.
Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Blacksmith Shaping Metal]

Description: Photograph of blacksmith Al Morgan shaping a piece of metal at the Texas Folklife Festival. Using a hammer and chisel, he is working on a piece of metal atop an anvil. Several tools are visible on the work surface in front of him. A man is standing on the left, looking over his shoulder. The forge is visible a few feet behind Morgan.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dan Harrison, Knifesmith]

Description: Color photograph of a man identified as Dan Harrison, a knifesmith, who is a participant of the 7th Annual Texas Folklife Festival. At his booth he has an open display case filled with knives, some of which are resting on a pelt of animal fur. Dan is wearing an apron and is engaged in a conversation with a young boy visiting his booth and admiring a knife.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boy Shelling Corn with a Machine]

Description: Color photograph of a young boy turning the wheel crank of a metal machine that shells corn, which is on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The machine's spout leads to a large metal bowl that catches the processed kernels. In the background is a fenced in area filled with corn husks. To the left of that area is a sign posted on a tree that reads, "Corn Shucking: 4-H Clubs of Medina."
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Corn Shelling Machine]

Description: Color photograph of a corn shelling machine, on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The machine is made of wood and has a bowl underneath it to catch the processed kernels. A young boy turns the crank on the side of the machine while a teenage boy who is operating the machine takes corn cobs from the next child in line. A woman in sunglasses stands to the left of the machine.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Shelling Corn]

Description: Color photograph of a group of children using a wooden hand-turned machine to shell corn. The machine is on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. As one child pushes a cob of corn down into an opening on the top of the machine, a young boy turns the crank on the side. A large bowl underneath the machine catches the processed kernels. Behind them is a large, partially fenced-in pile of corn husks.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Churning Butter with Marie Fleming]

Description: Color photograph of a teenage girl churning butter in a glass paddle churn while an older woman, identified as Marie Fleming from Nederland, Texas, watches her work. The churn is placed in a bed of ice contained in an aluminum pan. This booth is one of many at the 7th Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Air-Compressing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new air compressing apparatus which employs two kinds of tanks called high pressure containers and low pressure containers charged by means of an air compressing engine.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Number-Displaying Device.

Description: Patent for illuminated signs which illuminate number displaying devices for vehicles. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Jenner, George A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telltale Switch

Description: Patent for switch that indicates when a vacuum fails. Used for systems in "which it is desired to keep a ... uniform vacuum such as in fruit dryers, creosoting plants, surgace and jet condensing for steam plants and the like" (lines 21-25).
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Howland, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for a live animal trap that uses a trigger and allows for live bait. Wire fabric is used to prevent animals from digging and escaping.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Herring, Henry H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bearing for Crank-Shafts.

Description: Patent for an improvement for Bearings for Cranks Shafts. This invention provides a means for "tightening the bushings of the bearings easily and quickly when necessary" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 22, 1918
Creator: Blumberg, Hamilton G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Boy Shaving Wooden Log]

Description: Photograph of a boy removing shavings of wood with a drawknife at the pioneer log house raising, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. The boy is crouched over, straddling the log and gripping the drawknife which has two handles and a blade in the middle. He is pulling the drawknife down the log to remove the bark. He has straw or woodcarvings in his hair.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Nailing Roof Shingles on Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of Arnold Griffin nailing shingles on a log cabin at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine, is the project director. The shingles are all made of wood and are being held in place by small wooden stakes.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Chinking a Log Cabin]

Description: Photograph of Roberta Griffin chinking a log cabin at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Griffin is wearing a pioneer dress and a matching bonnet as she applies mortar to the gaps between logs with a trowel. The log cabin has not been fully constructed and the logs only come up to her neck. Her face is turned to the right and she is smiling.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[W.B. Keel Splits a Log]

Description: Photograph of W.B. Keel, from Gilmer, splitting a log at the pioneer log house raising at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. Using an axe, W.B. works at splitting a log that is laying on the ground. His grandson Ronnie Keel stands beside him watching. Both men are standing beside the partially constructed log cabin. In the foreground, two tree stumps are visible, one with a few wooden shingles on it. In the backgr… more
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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