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[Receiving Water Rations]

Photograph of men, woman, and children receiving two cartons of Drinking Water from the back of a truck. In the image, a line has formed for the cartons where two men inside the truck are handling the crates, a mother is consoling a crying baby in her arms, another mother, wearing bandages on her face, is fixing her son's pants. Two men and an injured woman are walking with their rations towards the camera. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Water Delivery to Florida Hurricane Disaster Victims (Re-creation) Highland Park, Michigan Photo: Joe Clark HBSS 1955 This photo is significant because in the early 50s milk was only being distributed in glass bottles. Pure-Pak was manufacturing “New" paper carton containers, but people were reluctant to buy milk in anything but a glass bottle. There are a series of photos in the Clark Family Photography Collection used in ads to promote the benefits of the paper carton over the glass bottle, but nothing really changed the people's opinion until… …a hurricane hit Florida and Excello, the parent company of Pure-Pak, sent truck loads of emergency drinking water in Pure-Pak paper cartons and people finally got it. Why send glass bottles to an area …
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[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

[Receiving Water Rations]

Photograph of men, woman, and children receiving two cartons of Drinking Water from the back of a truck. In the image, a line has formed for the cartons where two men inside the truck are handling the crates, a mother is consoling a crying baby in her arms, another mother, wearing bandages on her face, is fixing her son's pants. Two men and an injured woman are walking with their rations towards the camera. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Water Delivery to Florida Hurricane Disaster Victims (Re-creation) Highland Park, Michigan Photo: Joe Clark HBSS 1955 This photo is significant because in the early 50s milk was only being distributed in glass bottles. Pure-Pak was manufacturing “New" paper carton containers, but people were reluctant to buy milk in anything but a glass bottle. There are a series of photos in the Clark Family Photography Collection used in ads to promote the benefits of the paper carton over the glass bottle, but nothing really changed the people's opinion until… …a hurricane hit Florida and Excello, the parent company of Pure-Pak, sent truck loads of emergency drinking water in Pure-Pak paper cartons and people finally got it. Why send glass bottles to an area …
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library