Photograph of Jimmy Powell in the woods. In this image, Powell, with his body facing away from the camera, is holding a rifle looking back and up over his shoulder. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."

Photograph of Jimmy Powell holding a large rifle with a dog along a fence line. In the image the boy is surveying the farmland in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. 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: 7023-0058-33

Photograph of a boy and a girl looking for places to put their art on the ground in a hallway of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Mounted pieces line the hallway walls, whereas the children's work is placed along the ground. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0025-22

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 …

Photograph of Jimmy Powell standing outside with a rifle, possibly in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Fog and mountains can be seen in the background. A poem titled "The Call of the Mountains" is typed beneath the photo on the mat. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."

Photograph of a boy at the Detroit Art Institute. He sits on the floor, making an object out of clay. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0005-23

Photograph of Jimmy Powell with his arm around his dog Old Tize, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image, Powell is sitting on the edge of a porch, smiling to something left of the camera. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0016-13

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

Photograph of an unidentified Detroit Times Editor with Junebug Clark. They walk outside of the Detroit Times building, wearing jackets. Junebug held a position as a paid staff photographer for nine months before being "fired" for the newspaper breaking child labor laws. The newswires picked up on this "World's Youngest Press Photographer" being fired and his career took off. This picture was taken for Life magazine. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 6961-0007-7

Two matted photographs of children playing baseball in Hamtramck, Michigan. The left image features a small boy throwing a ball. The right image features an older boy holding a baseball bat.

Photograph of a statue titled "The Spirit of Detroit," possibly taken during the late 1950's. The statue was commissioned in 1955 and dedicated in 1958, and it is owned by the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. The statue features a man holding a different object in each hand. City and county seals can be seen on a wall behind it.

Photograph of Jimmy Powell in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Powell is standing on a harvested mountainside, holding a shotgun towards the ground during sunrise while the clouds hang low to the ground below the hill tops. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."

Photograph of four students at the Detroit Institute of Art. The children sit on the ground with art materials in front of them. Photo by Bernice Clark. Signed by: Bernice Clark Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0031-36

Photograph of Jimmy Powell, also known as "Mountain Boy," bent over in a creek in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image, Powell, shirtless, is fishing in a creek with trees lining all sides of the creek. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."

Photograph of a boy on a sleigh flying from sliding down a hill. In the image the boy is in mid-air wearing snow gear laying on top of the sleigh. Behind him are bare trees and a sun covered by thin clouds. Photo was taken in Palmer Park. Detroit, Michigan Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 0000-0001-15

Photograph of a statue titled "The Spirit of Detroit," taken from a distance. A tall wall or building stands behind the statue, which was commissioned in 1955 and dedicated in 1958.

Photograph of singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, standing in front of a microphone with his hands clasped together and looking out.

Photograph of a boy working on a piece of art at the Detroit Art Institute. The boy sits on the ground with a piece of paper and what appears to be clay. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0030-16

Photograph of Jimmy Powell stretched out on a hill, with a gun lying next to him. Further down the hill is a dog, and beyond it are more hills and distant trees as well as two small farmhouses and a field. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."

Photograph of Jimmy Powell and his dog, Old Tize, as well as a plow, in a field at sunset.

Two matted photographs of children playing baseball in a corner lot at Hamtramck, Michigan. The photograph on the left shows a boy preparing to swing a baseball bat, and the right photograph shows a very young boy throwing a baseball.Two matted photographs of children playing baseball in a corner lot at Hamtramck, Michigan. The photograph on the left shows a boy preparing to swing a baseball bat, and the right photograph shows a very young boy throwing a baseball. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 6955-65

Photograph of Jimmy Powell swinging from a grapevine in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image Powell, is swinging through the trees while hanging on to a grapevine. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy." Narrative by Junebug Clark: Also more Jimmy Powell photos appear in Joe's book "I Remember" Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS.

Photograph of JImmy Powell shooting a gun into the air. He stands in a field of tall grass without wearing a shirt. The words "the country boy" are written on the mat beneath the photograph. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."

Photograph of Wade Hampton Clark, Sr. smoking his pipe on the front lawn of his home in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7025-0010-51