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Coffee in the Gourd

Description: Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press
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Happy Hunting Ground

Description: Collection of popular folklore from Central and South America, including Mexican ballads, primitive art, cowboy dances, reptile myths, superstitions, Indian pictographs, and other folktales. The index begins on page 127.
Date: 1925
Creator: Texas Folklore Society & Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

[Photograph of Wayne King]

Description: Photograph of a print of a portrait of Wayne King wearing a light-colored suit, a white shirt, a patterned tie, and a white pocket handkerchief. He is smiling and looking directly at the camera. The text under the image reads "Wayne King, the Waltz King." The print is taped to a wall.
Date: October 30, 1925
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Texas and Southwestern Lore

Description: Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press
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Man, Bird and Beast

Description: Collection of Texas and Mexican folklore, including stories about folk medicine and ranch remedies, folk songs, legends and other folklore. The index begins on page 176.
Date: 1930
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press
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Tone the Bell Easy

Description: Volume of Texas and Mexican folklore, including folktales about witches, superstitions, slavery, folk cures, folk songs and other legends. The index begins on page 190.
Date: 1932
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press
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Spur-of-the-Cock

Description: Collected miscellany of Texas and Mexican folklore, including stories about the Mayo Indians, Mexican folk plays, folk songs, information about Texas cacti and other folklore. The index begins on page 110.
Date: 1933
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

[Photograph of an audience watching a performance]

Description: Photograph of an audience watching a performance. The dark silhouettes of an audience stand in the foreground before a stage where four individuals stand in costumes. Two other individuals in costumes sit behind them on a raised part of the stage under three large, striped arches that hang above. Two tall, striped columns stand on either side of the raised part of the stage, framing the conjoined arches. A small structure with a star on its peaked roof stands on the left of the stage, while ano… more
Date: [1935..1940]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Guitar duet at night]

Description: Photograph of two young men playing guitar outside at night while molasses is being made in the background. The men are sitting on the ground on the left side of the picture, one focusing on his guitar and the other looking off camera. An older man and woman are in the background stirring the molasses, the woman is holding a tray in her left hand.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man conducting an ensemble]

Description: Photograph of a man conducting an ensemble. His right hand is holding his conductor's baton up in the air and his left hand's palm is facing the ground to signal a decrescendo.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man singing from an old songbook]

Description: Photograph of a man singing from a old songbook. The man stands on the right side of the image and looks down to read the sheet music from the book, the book is tattered and he folds it over its spine to only look at one page. In the background a man is seen sitting in a pew staring directly at the camera, it is night time and a window is open behind him.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Mustangs and Cow Horses

Description: Collection of popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folktales, folk songs, ballads and other information about mustangs and horses. The index begins on page 425.
Date: 1940
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964; Boatright, Mody C. & Ransom, Harry H.
Partner: UNT Press
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