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[Jimmy Powell the Mountain Boy (2)]

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 what Joe recalled his life to be. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0053-2
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Mountain Boy With Rifle and Accompanying Poem]

Photograph of a Jimmy Powell with a rifle in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In this photo, the sun is setting in the hills behind Powell, casting him in shadow. This photograph is mounted to the right of a poem by Joe Clark, titled "Sunset on the Mountain." Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Woman with Accompanying Poem]

Photograph of a woman, standing in front of a house with a bucket and rope in her hands. This image is mounted to the right of a poem by Joe Clark, titled "My Sally Lives on the Mountain High."
Date: December 9, 1961
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library