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[Otto Walker and Harry England heading to the spring for water]

Photograph of Otto Walker and Harry England leaving the school house to get more water from the spring one mile away. In the image, Walker and England are just stepping out of the school house, bucket in hand, as they begin their journey for fresh water at the spring.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Creete Russell Reciting Palms at the Chapel Service]

Photograph of Creete Russell singing at the Chapel Service. In the image Russell is standing next to the pew in a one piece patterned jumper.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Molasses Stir-Off Shoe Game]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Photograph of a group of teenagers from Lincoln Memorial University in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee playing a game of "Shoes in a Circle" A boy and girl team up and removed their shoes and pile them up randomly with other contestants shoes. A signal starts the mad rush to find and put on their shoes. The team to complete the task first wins. This photo appears on page 766 of National Geographic Magazine. A 21 page article on Cumberland Gap and its people with photographs by Joe Clark, HBSS appears in this early 1940's publication. It's a great article. I'm sorry that I don't have the date handy now, but if you have gotten this far... I'd highly recommend digging further for that Geographic Magazine. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Collection at the University of North Texas …
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Young women dancing]

Photograph of two young women dancing in a restaurant.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Road signs]

Photograph of two signs along side a paved road.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students and teacher at the front of class]

Photograph of students seated along a bench at the front of a class room while the teacher stands behind them.
Date: April 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Young student raising hand]

Photograph of a young girl raising her hand with two boys seated on a bench in a one room school house. There are papers with spelling words written on them in their hands and on the bench.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Road signs]

Photograph of signs along a paved road.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Stiner and Bunch Hollow Zinc Properties, Powell River Area, Union and Claiborne Counties, Tennessee (open access)

Exploration of Stiner and Bunch Hollow Zinc Properties, Powell River Area, Union and Claiborne Counties, Tennessee

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the exploration of zinc ore deposits surrounding the Powell River area in Tennessee. Drilling methods and ore concentrates are presented. This report includes tables, and maps.
Date: April 1946
Creator: Sayrs, Richard L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves and Preparation and Carbonizing Properties of Coking Coal in Claiborne County, Tennessee (open access)

Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves and Preparation and Carbonizing Properties of Coking Coal in Claiborne County, Tennessee

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over investigations of coking coal reserves of Claiborne County, Tennessee. Testing to determine suitability for producing metallurgical coke is also presented. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: May 1956
Creator: Hershey, Robert E.; Williams, Lloyd; Crentz, William L.; Miller, J. W. & Reynolds, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Couples Dancing at the Molasses Stir-off]

Photograph of numerous couples dancing at the molasses stir-off, with people watching from the background and a couple kissing in the foreground. This image is mounted to the left of a poem by Joe Clark, titled "Youth." Narrative by Junebug Clark: Additional photos and information can be found in the pdf document "Joe Clark HBSS LIFE Magazine Photos" page 20 and in the November 13, 1950. Life Magazine pages 156-160. Stir-off Time in Tennessee. Fun Starts in Hills as Molasses Boils. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man Plowing With an Accompanying Poem]

Photograph of an unknown man using a horse drawn ploy for farming. In the image the man is plowing to prepare for the next harvest, the poem glued to the left of the image is about a country boy's life on the farm and everything that comes with their lifestyle.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Walking Home by Lantern Light(2)]

Photograph of Cecil Ray with his arm around a Bonnie Burns as they walk along a gravel path. Burns carries a gas lamp while the Cecil Ray carries a small pail of sorghum molasses while they both laugh and smile. A typed poem is mounted to the right of the photograph on a mat.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Caught Her]

Photograph of a boy catching a girl while playing a "kissing game" at a molasses stir-off. There are two rings, one of boys and one of girls. The girl tags a boy and he must chase her. If he catches her, a kiss is the prize. In this photograph, the young man claims his reward. There is a poem titled "Fact," mounted to the mat of the photo.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Facsimile of Joe Clark, HBSS, Master Book Pages] (open access)

[Facsimile of Joe Clark, HBSS, Master Book Pages]

Photographs of hand annotated pages in Joe Clark's published books of photography. From Junebug Clark's introduction: "A collection of pages from Joe Clark, HBSS books that contain handwritten information as to the original photofile numbers or ID information provided by Joe Clark, HBSS or by the individuals in the photographs or by people who knew the them. Most of this information was added during "Joe Clark, HBSS Days" held in Joe's home town, Cumberland Gap, Tennessee usually around the anniversary of his birthday October 4, 1904."
Date: 201X
Creator: Clark, Junebug & Clark, Joe
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Students reading at table]

Photograph of seven students seated at a table as they read from books. The students and table are next to a window.
Date: April 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Mary Lee Williams drinking]

Photograph of a child named Mary Lee Williams drinking water from a ladle. She wears a dress and sweater, leaning over a bucket to get to the water. The photograph is mounted along with a poem by HBSS, Joe Clark.
Date: [1940..1980]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Transcript of Letter from George Fisher to Stephen F. Austin, August 4, 1836] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from George Fisher to Stephen F. Austin, August 4, 1836]

Copy of transcript for a letter from George Fisher to Stephen F. Austin, on August 4, 1836, discussing the family he hopes will move to Texas, and his wish to be useful in the military.
Date: August 4, 1836
Creator: Fisher, George
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Boston plane crash] (open access)

[News Script: Boston plane crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two delta whisper jets which got into trouble while making instrument landings at separate airports in heavy fog .
Date: July 31, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910: Part 1. -- Analyses (open access)

Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910: Part 1. -- Analyses

From Significance and value of Analyses of Coal: "The analyses published in this report cover samples of coal collected in many different parts of the country with unusual care by experiences men, in such manner as to make them representative of extensive beds of coal."
Date: 1913
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples (open access)

Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples

From Introduction: "This volume contains the descriptions of the samples whose analyses are published in the preceding volume, Part I of this bulletin. The descriptions have been compiled from the notebooks of the persons who collected the samples, have been condensed from accounts given in published reports of the United States Geological Survey, or have furnished by the collection themselves. Inasmuch as the descriptions represent the work of many persons during a period of six years, and inasmuch as they were recorded under widely differing conditions, they necessarily vary in fullness detail."
Date: 1913
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hillbilly Snapshooter captions transcript

The Hillbilly Snapshooter

Video of an interview with photographer Joe Clark, known as the "Hillbilly Snapshooter." The video appears to have been produced by a Detroit news station, possibly WJBK, although there is no identifying information. Clark is known for his images of his native Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Many images of rural life in Tennessee taken by Clark are featured throughout the interview with instrumental music, including a surf-rock interpretation of a traditional song, played as accompaniment.
Date: 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library