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[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking home by lantern light(1)]

Description: Photograph of Cecil Ray with his arm around a Bonnie Burns as they walk along a gravel path. Burns carries a gas lamp while the Cecil Ray carries a small pail of sorghum molasses while they both laugh and smile. Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Walking Home by Lantern Light. This is a typical scene at the end of a stir-off event. It is a scene Joe tried to capture many times. It is a good shot and has been published, but it is not the "kill-shot" the one "picture that tells a… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys and girls at a dance]

Description: Photograph of boys and girls, ages ranging from middle school to high school, at a dance together. The girls stand in a line on the left side of the picture and the boys stand on the right, both clapping for a boy and girl pair dancing down the middle. The pair are caught mid-stride and holding each other's hands, the girl is looking directly at the camera.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Douglas Clark with "Junebug" Wade Hampton Clark, Jr.]

Description: Photograph of Douglas Clark with his father, Wade Hampton Clark, Jr. (Junebug) playing out-of-doors. Junebug is lying on his back in the grass and Douglas is crouched near his head, touching his face with one hand and reaching for his dad's hat with the other. A bush is visible behind them.
Date: 1946~
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women at an outdoor quilting bee]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The quilters gather at a neighbor's home for a Quilting Bee. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farm scene]

Description: Photograph of a farm in the hills. There are multiple buildings adjacent to a fenced in crop area. There is an expansive mountain view in the background of the photograph.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Plow team]

Description: Photograph of a boy riding on a makeshift platform that is being dragged by two horses. The horses pull the buy through a dirt field.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harve Smith winds up his clock]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was made in the early 1940s at the home of Harve and Bernice Smith somewhere in Canada. In this photo, Harve is winding up a clock in their living room. Harve and Bernice were friends of my parents before I was born and I remember meeting them, but it was probably before I was age of five. I remember that my parents took some pictures during a trip there of some piglets and one very big hog that my mother was particularly proud of. Those photos are in the … more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe, HBSS
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking the cows home]

Description: Joe did this as a boy, walking the cows' home with man's best friend, a dog. This is one of the memories Joe captured from his childhood. The patience of man with his animals. Beautiful country side with clouds and just your thoughts while doing your daily chores. This picture was taken in Cumberland Gap Tennessee.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys cleaning oil lamps]

Description: Photograph of of two boys accompanied by a small dog sitting at the steps of a front porch. The two young men are using a bowl of soapy water to clean out the glass chimney, or globe, of many oil lamps.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[River]

Description: Photograph of a river flowing rapidly around a tree fallen in the water. The river flows through a heavily wooded area.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Work is never done]

Description: Photograph of coiled barbed wire resting on a fence post. The envelope containing the slide is inscribed "unfinished business". From Junebug Clark: A job half done is a job begun. This photo shows the long days of putting up barbed wire in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe helped with these chores as a boy with his father Wade Hampton Clark.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pupils in classroom]

Description: Photograph of a young boy and young girl seated at their desks in a one room school house. Each child has apples and books on their desks while a teacher is seated at her own desk at the front of the classroom.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[School house]

Description: Photograph of a young boy, who is barefoot, and a young girl, who is not, walking up to the entrance of a brick school house where another young child awaits. The girl is carrying a small container while the boy has his books and supplies under his arm.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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