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[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

[Kissing game]

Description: Photograph of a man in a hat hunched down as he kisses a young girl on the cheek. There is a semi circle of other young men and women standing as they play a kissing game at a sorghum molasses stir-off. There is a man in the background playing mandolin.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walk by lamp light]

Description: Photograph of a young man and woman walking along a dirt path at night. They are arm in arm and the man is carrying a gas lamp. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men preparing for the upcoming stir-off]

Description: Photograph of a group of men performing their individual tasks to prepare for an upcoming sorghum stir-off. The men in the foreground stretch cloth over the opening of a barrel to strain the sweet sorghum juice extracted from the press to their right. In the center of the photograph a man on a tractor is pulling a wagon full of sorghum cane. Two other men are visible walking along a path in the background of the photo.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hugh Vancel stirring molasses]

Description: Photograph of Reverend Hugh Vancel using a homemade ladle to stir impurities from the top of the boiling sorghum juice as it turns to molasses. There is a crowd gathered behind him observing. Joe Clark's brother, Junebug is seated wearing glasses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kiss]

Description: Photograph of a couple kissing as a crowd of onlookers watches in wonderment. There is a car parked in the background and a couple kids seated on horses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farmhouse on a sunny day]

Description: Photograph of a brick farmhouse and its backyard garden. The sun is shining brightly on the house and garden, but is shady under the porch and a big tree on the left. The porch is cluttered with house items, and there is a wooden fence post sitting in the foreground of the picture.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children in a corn crib]

Description: Photograph of three small children sitting in the edge of the door of a corn crib. There is a dog standing at the edge of the step ladder. In the background of the photograph there is a harvested field of corn and a mountain covered in trees.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvesting sorghum cane]

Description: Photograph of a young boy seated on mule while a man and four girls gather harvested cane and place it on a sled. There are tree covered mountains and hills visible in the background of the photograph.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Blacksmith shoeing horse]

Description: Photograph of a blacksmith holding the hoof of a horse as he prepares to hammer the shoe in place. The blacksmith is looking up at the camera with a cigar hanging from his mouth.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys play in a barn]

Description: Photograph of two boys playing in the cane stalks at a stir-off. From Junebug Clark: Photograph of two young boys playing in the hay after a morning's work on the farm. Wrestling was a great sport in the lay in the barn. Kids in the 1940's looked for fun outdoors and did a lot of exploring.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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