Photograph of Aunt China and Uncle Harv Sparks sitting near a fireplace in their home living room. Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

Photograph of an unidentified young man playing guitar on his porch in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

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.

Narration by Junebug Clark: This photo is from the 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Old Mag is a mule. My grandfather, Wade Hampton Clark, Sr. kept him on his farm. I never met Old Mag, but my father, Joe Clark, HBSS was attached to him. This photo has appeared in magazines, posters and in one of my dad's book.

Photograph of a Ruby Smith seated in a dimly lit room playing guitar as she looks out the window. The walls of the room are plastered with newspaper and magazine clippings.

Photograph of students seated at benches as they read from books. There is a furnace at the center of the room and a teacher standing off to the side.

Photograph of school children at recess playing a game called, "drop the handkerchief." The students are standing in a circle holding hands as another child runs around them.

Photograph of buildings lined up along side a road. There is a truck pulled off along the road with one door open. In the foreground of the photograph are three mailboxes and growing stalks of corn.

Photograph of students standing along the walls at the front of the Locust Grove School. There are two teachers on the right of the photograph holding a notepad and book while the students watch one boy in the center of the group.

Photograph of students seated at benches in the Locust Grove School house as they read from books.

Photograph of a boy using a ladle to fill a glass jar with water from a bucket.

Photograph of Harry and Carl England doing their homework by lamplight as they use an old trunk as a desk.

Photograph of buildings lined up along side a road. There is also a truck pulled over off the road with one door open. In the foreground of the photograph there are three mailboxes and growing stalks of corn.

Photograph of teacher, Ralph Livesay, standing in the doorway of the Locust Grove School as students hurry out of the door. There is a vast mountain landscape visible in the background of the image.

Photograph of a latch on a church door being held shut by a whittled piece of wood.

Photograph of a boy leaping over a grapevine being held between two girls. There is another boy in the background ready to take his turn leaping over the outstretched vine.

Photograph of the girls seated on a rock as they eat their lunches. There are other students visible in the background of the image.

Photograph of a male student being instructed to go to the back of the line at a spelling bee. There is a line of students standing along a wall with a blackboard as two teachers stand and sit in front of them.

Photograph of students reading from their books while the teacher stands at the front of the class. There is a young girl seated on a stool in the center of the room facing the rest of the students.

Photograph of Leon McGeorge seated at a bench as he leans on his lunch pail with an open book on his lap. A furnace as well as other students are visible in the background of the image.

Photograph of school children at recess playing a game called, "drop the handkerchief." The students are standing in a circle holding hands as two other children run around them. There is a separate young child standing in the foreground of the image.

Photograph of two boys walking along a barbed wire fence with a large metal pail to collect water for the school room.

Photograph of a boy sitting on a fence at the edge of a farm overlooking a valley and mountains. The boy is wearing a hat, picking his teeth with hay, and has his school books on his lap.

Photograph of a dog resting on the welcome mat in front of the door to a brick home.