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[Blacksmithing Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of a man holding a horseshoe as he demonstrates blacksmithing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a cowboy hat, t-shirt, and jeans, he is standing behind an anvil, holding a hammer and a horseshoe with tongs. To the right in the middle ground, a forge full of coals is ablaze.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[The Blacksmith Area]

Description: Photograph of the blacksmith area at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man is sitting behind a young boy who is holding a tool on top of an anvil.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Basil Garcia Hammering Hot Metal Over an Anvil]

Description: Photograph of blacksmith Basil Garcia at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is in the foreground wearing jeans, suspenders, a navy t-shirt, and a black cap. He is standing behind an anvil, hammering a hot piece of metal over it. On the stand with the anvil is a variety of blacksmithing tools: different hammers, and tools for holding and shaping the metal. Behind Garcia to the right is the forge, which has flames emanating from it. Standing behind the forge is a woman wearing a blue shirt and a con… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
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]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Vet's shop photograph]

Description: Photograph of a blacksmith forges metal on the anvil. He is wearing a hat, glasses, a light-colored shirt, and pants. In the background, there are pieces of machinery and tools.
Date: August 21, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Bob Jones]

Description: Photograph of Bob Jones participating in the Needle Eye Contest where one looks at a horse for thirty seconds, takes a piece of iron and makes the shoe. The shoe with the best craftsmanship, quality, and fit wins. Bob Jones is punching holes in the horse shoe. A butane forge is on the left and a water bucket is on the ground. Bob custom built the storage bin and anvil stand.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bradly, Bill
Partner: Deaf Smith County Library

[Photograph of Bob Jones]

Description: Photograph of Bob Jones participating in the Needle Eye Contest where one looks at a horse for thirty seconds, takes a piece of iron and makes the shoe. The shoe with the best craftsmanship, quality, and fit wins. Bob Jones is waiting for the iron to get hot in the forge. A butane forge is on the left and a water bucket is on the ground. Bob custom built the storage bin and anvil stand.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bradly, Bill
Partner: Deaf Smith County Library

[Photograph of Bob Jones]

Description: Photograph of Bob Jones dressing a horse shoe down with a rasp. He operates out of the back of his pickup truck, and uses a butane forge that operates under 7 lbs. of pressure and heats up to 3,100 degrees.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bradly, Bill
Partner: Deaf Smith County Library

[Man Hammers Hot Metal on Anvil]

Description: Photograph of Don Hastings, from Palestine, demonstrating knife-making with a blacksmith's forge, hammer and anvil at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is hammering a piece of hot metal on an anvil, molding it into shape. In the foreground the forge is visible, full of hot coals. In the background, several spectators are visible.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Joe Clark sucking his thumb]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark sitting in a chair with an anvil between his legs and a hammer and awl in his hand, sucking on his thumb; he likely hit it with the hammer. Clark is wearing dress pants and a button down shirt with a tie around his neck and a vest over top.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a metalsmithing workshop, 1]

Description: Photograph of a blacksmith's workshop. Closest to the camera is a wooden stump with a metal pole stuck through the top. Off to the side is a small barrel and some mechanical parts. Behind the first stump, is a larger stump with an anvil, some small hammers, a stone block, and a wooden block. Next to that is another, larger hammer. In the back along the back side wall of the workshop is a smithing forge filled with coals and other tools. On either side are more tools and other miscellaneous tool… more
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man hammering a piece of metal]

Description: Photograph of a man hammering a piece of hot metal on an anvil. The man stands on the left side of the image and has his hammer raised to strike down on the metal that is in the center. He works in a work shop, where other tools and equipment can be seen strewn in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two men crafting a wheel]

Description: Photograph of two men crafting a wheel frame together by hammering it into shape on an anvil. The man on the right is holding a long blacksmith hammer, and the man on the left is holding up the wheel as he strikes. The workshop is dark around them except for one bright light shining on them off camera.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man teaching two boys his craft]

Description: Photograph of an older man teaching two young boys how to build wheels. They are inside a work shed, with materials and other wheels lying around. The older man is bending the wheel in to shape with a mallet on an anvil, there is a field with two cows outside the door in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Interior View of Blacksmith Shop]

Description: Photograph of an interior view of a blacksmith shop in Mobeetie, Texas. Two men are each standing by an anvil. Hammers and pieces of metal are laying on the floor in front of the men. In the background, there are pieces of machinery and broken furniture. A parked car is in the far background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Born, Julius
Partner: River Valley Pioneer Museum

[Photograph of a man firing some metal, 1]

Description: Photograph of a man heating metal in a fire. In the foreground is an anvil with a hammer resting on top of it. On the workbench next to the fire are several pairs of pliers resting next to the fire. The wall along the workbench is made of corrugated metal attached to a wooden panel.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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