Resource Type

[Aunt Nora Treece binding the broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece making a broom. In the image, Aunt Nora is seated on the porch with the broom laying across her lap while she binds the broomcorn to the wooden stick.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece carding cotton]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece carding cotton with brushes. In the image, Aunt Treece sits by a table decorated with objects and photographs while carding the cotton.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece carding cotton]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece carding cotton. In the image, she sits by a window and a table decorated with photographs, objects, and a radio. In a chair next to Aunt Treece is a pile of already carded cotton ready to be stretched and spun.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece flattening the new broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece weaving a homemade broom flat. In the image, Aunt Nora is seated on the porch with the broom across her lap weaving a string through the broomcorn making it flat. A small kitten is seated next to the broom sniffing the ends with interest while someone can be seen inside through a screen door.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece in a root cellar]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece in a root cellar. In the image, Treece is holding two canned jard while seated in front of a long wall lines with jars, more can be seen a long the ground and on a shelf on another wall.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece making a broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece cutting off the stalks from the broomcorn for a new broom. In the image, Aunt Nora is holding the broom upside down while she cuts off the stalks with a large knife. A pin with the word "MOTHER" can be seen on her blouse.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece making a broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece pulling the grains off of Sorghum vulgare, also known as Broomcorn, to make a broom. In the image, Aunt Treece is bending over pulling the grains with piles of pulled and un-pulled broomcorn sit on the porch.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece sewing]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece sewing. In the image, Aunt Treece is seated in a rocking chair by a window and table decorated with flowers and photographs.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece showing quilts]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece smiling to the camera as she shows off her finished quilts. In the image, a young unidentified girls stands holding a quilt next to Aunt Nora while one is laid on the bed and two more are pulled over a curtain.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece showing quilts]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece showing off some quilts. In the image, Aunt Nora and an unidentified girl are each holding up a quilted blanket while two more are hung up on a wall for the patterns to be seen.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece tying a broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece tying a broom together. In the image, Aunt Nora stands wrapping wire around a new broom she made out of broomcorn. Using a tree to hold the wire firm Aunt Nora rolls the broom tightly wrapping it around.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Nora Treece watering the broom]

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece pouring water onto the broomcorn to make the string wrap around the grouping tighter. In the image, a young boy stands by watching as Aunt Nora holds on to the broomcorn end of the broom to pour water over it. The string can be seen coming from the tree to the broom.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Oma Wright]

Photograph of two women seated on a covered porch while an older couple are seated in chairs off the porch. There is also a dog seated next to the man.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Tilda]

Photograph of Aunt Tilda, looking at something off-camera with a small smile and wearing a sweater that is closed with a safety pin. Behind her a table with objects are visible in front of a window.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Tilda's Hands]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph is of Aunt Tilda's hands from the early 1940s taken in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aunt Tilda's hands]

Photograph of a Aunt Tilda's hands crossed over her lap. In the image, she is a wearing a knitted sweater with safety pins and a patterned skirt.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Baby crying]

Photograph of a young girl holding a crying baby. In the image, while leaning against a door opening the unidentified girl is smiling while holding a baby that is turned away crying at something out of the frame.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Baby crying]

Photograph of a young girl holding a crying baby. In the image, the smiling girl is leaning against a wall with a blurred crying baby in her arms.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Baby Drinking Milk from a cup with kids Watching]

Photograph of a family gathered on the front porch of a home in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The grandma, Jo Anna Wright, is seated in a wooden chair, giving baby Willene (Seal) Wright a sip of milk from a cup as the children around her watch.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Baby in bedroom]

Photograph of a baby sitting with a bottle. In the image, the infant is sitting on a thin blanket inside a bedroom with a bed along the back wall and a large chest on the other side. The walls are decorated with newspapers and and clothes hanging in the corner.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Back-to-back flips]

Photograph of boys practicing back-to-back flips with each other at a sorghum molasses stir-off.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bailing hay]

Photograph of men bailing hay in the fields. In the image, a young boy in overall shorts stands watching as a man and woman riding horses pulls piles of hay to another. A young buy is rearranging the hay being put into the machines while two more men stand on the other side.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bailing hay]

Photograph of men bailing hay in the fields. In the image, a young boy in overall shorts stands watching as a man riding a horse pulls a pile of a hay to another. A young buy watched the band used to operate the machinery while they compress the hay into boxes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bailing hay]

Photograph of a man dumping hay onto the ground from a trailer pull. In the image, another unidentified man is driving an open top trailer while another is tossing hay on to the ground for the cows to eat.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library