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[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Co… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt and Uncle Treece separating cotton seeds]

Photograph of Aunt Nora and Uncle Wild Treece pulling cotton through a seed pulling machine made of wood. In the image, the couple is seating across from each other both rotating handles while Aunt Nora feeds the cotton through the gears.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt China & Uncle Harv]

Photograph of Aunt China and Uncle Harv Sparks sitting near a fireplace in their home living room. Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

Date: 1941

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt China & Uncle Harv]

Aunt China & Uncle Harv Joe Clark, HBSS, 1941 Cumberland Gap, Tennessee pictures that tell a story China and Harv spent their lives together in this two room log cabin. No electricity. No Central Heat. No indoor plumbing, but all together they had a lot. Joe Clark’s wife, Bernice, would often tell the story of her first trip outside of Michigan, her honeymoon with Joe, and the day and night they spent with Aunt China and Uncle Harv. “It was getting late and Joe and I retired to the spare room,”… more

Date: unknown

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Joanna Wright and Aunt Nora Treece looking at quilt patterns]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Aunt Joanna Wright looking at quilting patterns. In the image, large square patterns are placed a long their laps as the pair sits by the fireplace.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Joanna Wright with quilt]

Photograph of Aunt Joanna Wright showing her quilting skills. In the image, Wright and a young unidentified girl are holding up a quilt to show the pattern.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Julia McCreary]

Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary. In the image, McCreary is seating in a rocking chair with the Bible open in her lap. A lamp is lit on a side table next to her.

Date: unknown

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Julia McCreary sitting by a fireplace]

Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary sitting in a rocking chair reading a book by the fireplace.

Date: 1942

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Julia McCreary's living room]

Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary's living room. In the image, a wicker rocking chair sits in front of the fireplace and a piano is placed in the corner. Miscellaneous objects sit on the mantle above the fire.

Date: 19XX

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Julia's house]

Photograph of the entrance hall into Aunt Julia McCreary's house. In the image, objects are placed on the rail-less staircase and a wash bin setup is along the wall.

Date: unknown

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora and Joanna Wright quilting]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece sewing with Joanna Wright. In the image, the two women are seated next to each other with a quilted patterns across their laps. A fireplace with tools and wood can be seen to the left of the pair.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora and Uncle Wild Treece]

Photograph of Aunt Nora and Uncle Wild Treece sitting down together. In the image, Uncle Treece is looking at the camera wearing overalls while Aunt Treece looks at the camera with a quizzically look on her face.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora and Uncle Wild Treece ginning cotton]

Photograph of Aunt Nora and Uncle Wild Treece ginning cotton. In the image, the couple sits across from each other working the wooden ginning machine to separate the seeds from the cotton.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora and Viola Treece quilting]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece quilting next to her daughter Viola Treece. In the image, the women are sitting shoulder to shoulder as they sew the quilt pattern into place.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora looking at quilt patterns]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece showing patterns to an unidentified girl. In the image, a stack of quilted blankets sits on the bed behind the pair while squares of quilted patterns are passed from lap to lap.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece. In the image, Aunt Nora is smiling while looking down at a comb in her hands.

Date: 19XX

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece sitting outside. In the image, Aunt Nora has both arm up fixing her hair wearing a patterned dress and apron looking into the camera.

Date: 19XX

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece smiling at the camera. In the image, Treece is posed wearing glasses and her hair pulled back facing the camera in a three-quarters position.

Date: 1940

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece holding a canned jar for the camera. In the image, Treece is outside a long a wooden fence with a structure's corner seen in the background.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece and Iris Clark Quilting]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Aunt Nora Treece and my grandmother, Iris Clark, working on a quilt in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Clark Photofile: 0010-7

Date: 1940~

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece and Joanna Wright quilting]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Joanna Wright quilting. In the image, the woman are standing side-by-side sewing at the edge of a patterned quilt, a bed sits right behind them.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece binding a broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece binding broomcorn to a stick to make a broom. In the image, Aunt Nora is winding using a tree to keep the metal straight as she winds it around the broom.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

[Aunt Nora Treece binding the broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece making a broom. In the image, Aunt Nora is seated on the porch with the broom laying across her lap while she binds the broomcorn to the wooden stick.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

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