Photograph of a woman sitting on the back of an armchair next to the wall telephone. She is leaning toward the phone's receiver with the earpiece held against her ear. She is wearing a houndstooth pattered skirt suit and heels. On the wall next to the telephone is calendar for January and February, 1945.

Photograph of a woman holding a wire coming from the wall. On the floor by her feet is an old wall telephone and on the couch next to it is a hand drill. On the wall next to where the wire is coming from is a calendar for January and February 1945.

Photograph of a milk bottle shatter while being hit with a hammer. In the image, the hammer is halfway through the neck of the bottle and cracks from the impact have already formed on the glass. Narrative by Junebug Clark: High speed, stop action, impact of a hammer striking a glass milk bottle, and shattering it. This print is an Impro. A Joe Clark technique of dropping mid-tones from an image to heighten the contrast. The photo was one of a series of photos made for Pur-Pak Corporation. The first to make and try to sell the concept of putting milk into Paper cartons. A hard sell, at first, because people were just used to having their milk home delivered in glass bottles. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7555-4

Photograph of an egg in mid-explosion from a slingshot ball. In the image John Milligan stands in the background holding the slingshot in position while the exploded egg takes up the foreground of the image showing crisp detail of the exploded object. John Milligan, a machinist in Detroit, Michigan who was also the “country’s greatest slingshot expert. “He won local fame by shooting the marks out of playing cards, hitting objects in mid air and bagging game in the field.” Joe took John national with his photos documenting his talent and accuracy. To assure accuracy, he has designed his own precision-built aluminum sling, called the Milligan Special. Additional photos and information can be found in the Clark Family Collection. Photos from this series appeared in eight national publications. Here you can find articles in “Life Magazine . February 3, 1961. Pages 80-83. And in a fifteen page pictorial in the book “Photojournalism” by Joe Clark, HBSS. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 8001-9

Photograph of a statue titled "The Thinker" at an Art Institute in Michigan. Snow falls from the sky and covers the statue and the ground. Text on the mat reads "Typical American, Always a settin' and a thinkin' when he should be a shovelin'."