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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
[Boy Meets Girl]
Photograph of a couple embracing at night in a field, during a "molasses stir-off"; other people are visible behind them.
Date:
[1940..1946]
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Erma Welch on her porch]
Portrait of Erma Welch on her porch in Cumberland Gap Tennessee. The pictured woman is named as Buela Welch on the sleeve containing the negative while also being named Erma Welch in Joe Clark's photography books. This image is used in Joe Clark's book "Back Home" accompanied by a poem titled, " In Lonesome Tennessee." Down yonder in the valley In lonesome Tennessee Sits my little Sally A waitin’ there for me. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 0001-51
Date:
1941
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Away from the Crowd]
Photograph of two couples embracing while playing "kissing games" at a stir-off, standing to the left of tall stalks of sorghum.
Date:
1940~
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Douglas Clark with "Junebug" Wade Hampton Clark, Jr.]
Photograph of Douglas Clark with his father, Wade Hampton Clark, Jr. (Junebug) playing out-of-doors. Junebug is lying on his back in the grass and Douglas is crouched near his head, touching his face with one hand and reaching for his dad's hat with the other. A bush is visible behind them.
Date:
1946~
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Church Door]
Photograph of a latch on a church door being held shut by a whittled piece of wood.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Douglas Clark with "Junebug" Wade Hampton Clark, Jr.]
Photograph of Douglas Clark with his father "Junebug" Wade Hampton Clark, Jr. on the steps of a brick home owned by Wade Hampton Clark Sr.
Date:
1946~
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Alone at Last]
Photograph taken during a "stir off" of two couples embracing next to a stack of sorghum stalks arrange din an upright bundle to the right. It was taken during a
Date:
[1940..1946]
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Old Mag]
Narration by Junebug Clark: This photo is from the 1944 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.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Aunt Nora Treece and Iris Clark Quilting]
Narrative by Junebug Clark: Aunt Nora Treece and my grandmother, Iris Clark, working on a quilt in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Clark Photofile: 0010-7
Date:
1940~
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Farm scene]
Photograph of a farm in the hills. There are multiple buildings adjacent to a fenced in crop area. There is an expansive mountain view in the background of the photograph.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Bulbs hanging]
Photograph of garlic or onion bulbs hanging by a nail from the side of a structure.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Bobby Russell student at front of class]
Photograph of Bobby Russell with his hands in the pockets of his overalls. He stands next to a podium at the front of the classroom at the Locust Grove School.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Aunt Tilda]
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.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Homework by the window]
Photograph of a young man and young woman working out of text books at a crowded table.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Mary Lee Williams drinking from the dipper]
Photograph of Mary Lee Williams using a ladle to sip water from a large pail in the school house of the Locust Grove School.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Threshing crew dinner]
Russell T. Forte has written on the envelope containing the negative that the photograph was used in March of 1962 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture photography division for the centennial photo exhibit. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from the 1940s and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Here in this shot, which is an outtake, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Hay waiting to be threshed]
Photograph of hay in the process of being harvested on a hillside farm. The view is naturally framed by trees on either side and a fence to the bottom.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Students praying at Locust Grove School]
Photograph of the one room school house, Locust Grove School. There are students seated at benches with their heads bowed in prayer as the teacher, Here Pauline Robertson leads the class in reciting the Lord's Prayer.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Bobby Russell standing in front of class]
Photograph of Bobby Russell standing in front of other students who are seated at benches. The back of a teachers head is visible in the foreground of the image.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Aunt Tilda]
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.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Revolver in pocket]
Photograph of a Smith & Wesson revolver tucked in the rear pocket of Junebug clark's pants. The envelope containing the negative lists the weapon as a "3T Special".
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Walking my girl home]
Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Molasses Making Stir-off - Walking My Girl Home 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 Special Collections Library. Specifically in a Detroit news pictorial article published December 13, 1942 titles "stir-off party" where mountaineers make molasses and merriment. Also in life magazine published November 13, 1950 [page 156] titled “Stir-off Time in Tennessee, Fun Starts in Hills as Molasses Boils.’ Also in the library is the NBC Today Show story on Joe Clark HBSS by Bob Dotson. It features Joe Clark returning to Cumberland Gap Tennessee to photograph a molasses stir off taking place in the same location as some of these photographs and attended by some of the same people in the early 1980s. Let me briefly set the scene of the time and era that these photos were made. …
Date:
1942
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Threshing crew]
Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from 1940 and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe used to point out that this photo was taken, "before women's lib." Here in this shot, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Clark, Joe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library