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[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
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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
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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
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[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
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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
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[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
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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
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aunt Tilda]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: "Photograph is of Aunt Tilda from 1941 taken in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Not an aunt related by blood, but one earned by age and respect." Aunt Tilda was 87 years old in this photograph. On the envelope containing the negative Russell T. Forte notes that in March of 1962 the photo was used for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Photography Division Centennial photo exhibit.
Date: 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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