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[Three Boys]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Pretty sure that these three country boys must be watching the dancing and games going on at full swing. People watching the molasses syrup as it boils down use short pieces of sorghum cane stalk to make “sop sticks” used to dip into the molasses syrup for a taste. This was the height of the fall social season. Harvesting the sorghum, extracting the juice, boiling it down into molasses could take days and weeks going round the clock to finish. … more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvested Sorghum Stalks]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane stalks being gathered. Eventually the stalks are ground and the juice extracted, poured into vats and boiled down into molasses. 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 … more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boys Man the Sorghum Press]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 One mule powers this grinding mill where sorghum cane is pressed, then the juice is extracted and boiled down into molasses. Here three young boys take turns feeding stalks of sorghum cane into the mule drawn press. 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 B… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boy Going Fishing]

Description: Photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt Wright heading to the creek to go fishing with his bait in a pail and fishing reel in his hand. Wright is tucking a book under his right arm.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boy Chopping Wood]

Description: Photograph of Roy McCrary chopping wood. In the image, McCrary is standing downhill from his wood and brick covered home on the side of a hill. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell Catches a Snapping Turtle]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell catching a snapping turtle with his bare hands in Keg Branch, a creek, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. He wears pants, but no shirt, and he holds the turtle by the tail. Rocks and foliage line the sides of the creek. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 9276-0002-19
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mountain Boy with Shotgun]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Powell is standing on a harvested mountainside, holding a shotgun towards the ground during sunrise while the clouds hang low to the ground below the hill tops. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Douglas and a wooden fence, 2]

Description: Photograph of Douglas Clark leaning over a wooden fence. He reaches one arm out over the top of the fence with a concerned expression on his face. Douglas is wearing a light-colored, collared dress.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Douglas and a wooden fence]

Description: Photograph of Douglas climbing a wooden fence. He holds onto a wooden pole and looks off to the side with a concerned expression on his face. Douglas is wearing a light-colored, collared dress.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys and Men on Porch]

Description: Photograph of a group of men and boys sitting together on the front porch of a house. In the image, the older men are smoking and drinking while the younger ones sit around watching. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Second from left is my Uncle Junebug (Wade Hampton Clark, Jr.) to the far right my grandfather (Wade Hampton Clark, Sr.). The three young boys seated L to R are my cousin Allen Edwards (son of Troy Edwards and Mabel. Clark), Me (Junebug Clark), and my cousin David Krent (son of Ed Krent … more
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell the Mountain Boy (1)]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph of Jimmy Powell, laying down, shirtless, on top a mountain in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image a farm can be seen on the next hill and Powell has a shotgun, almost the size of his body, laying next to him and his hunting dog off in the distance On the bottom of the image, "Lazy Bones," is handwritten. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of wh… more
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys Playing in Creek]

Description: Photograph of three boys playing in a creek, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image, the boys are wearing pants, but no shirts in a creek lined with rocks and large trees. Narrative by Junebug Clark: We are being taught how to catch fish with our bare hands by Jimmy Powell, far right. In the center is my Detroit cousin Tom Krent who made trips to Tennessee with us. I, Junebug Clark am on the left. Jimmy is showing us how to feel under rocks and catch fish, or craw dads and snapping turtles.… more
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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