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Baptising in Olde Towne Creek

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph is from 1938 and is shot in Red Hill, Tennessee. One of the first photos made by Joe, Baptising in Olde Towne Creek, has endured to become a favorite and meaningful to many. It bears close scrutiny because of the differing expressions and attitudes of those attending. People have said that they have counted fifty-one people in this picture and I’ve listened to many a controversy about a TV antenna* appearing in this 1938 photo. The Rev. Hugh Vancel, in c… more
Date: 1938
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Life's Highways]

Description: Narrative by Kay Clark. Joe Clark, HBSS, took this shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee of Roy McCrary on a fence in a field dreaming about his life in the hills of Tennessee. This picture is in Joe book published book "Back Home". Here is the poem in the book. I PLEDGE To loaf along Life’s highways To feel its shifting sands Climbs its hills, view its valleys And see its verdant Lands. To feast on bountiful harvests That grow along its way To watch the glowing sunsets That end… more
Date: 1939
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Lunch pails and baseball]

Description: Photograph of a row of lard buckets used as lunch pails as well as a two lunch boxes, a brown paper bag, a baseball, and a baseball bat on a bench along the back wall of a one room school house.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farm House]

Description: Photograph of an old farm house in a field. The roof is covered in wooden shingles; there is also a brick chimney. The envelope containing the negative has "Old Russell Place" written on it.
Date: 1938
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Little Boy]

Description: Photograph of a young boy resting his head on his arms as leans on the back rest of the bench in front of him. The photograph appears to be taken in a church or one room school in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
Date: [1939..1960]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Little Boy]

Description: Photograph of a young buy laying down, resting his head on his crossed arms, on a bench in what is assumed to be a church or one room schoolhouse in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
Date: [1939..1960]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Joe Clark's Birthplace]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Image is from 1938 and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. This home was built by Wade Clark. It is the home that Joe Clark, my father, was born in on October 4, 1904. Pictured here was the newest addition: a "Courtin' Parlor" built when the eldest girls "'came of courtin' age." My father, Joe, always regretted that he had no pictures of this home "in its glory." Photo by: Joe Clark HBSS
Date: 1938
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Looking at the mule]

Description: Photograph of a young boy on a mule next to a group of men standing in the doorway of a wooden watermill. Behind the mill is the water wheel. Large trees and vegetation are behind the mill and dirt road is along the front.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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