Aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Down on the streets below are cars, trolleys, and trees.

Aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Down on the streets below are cars, trolleys, and trees.

Aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Down on the streets below are cars, trolleys, and trees.

Aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Down on the streets below are cars, trolleys, and trees.

Photograph of an aerial view of industrial Detroit. Many of the buildings are made of brink and spewing smoke or steam.

Aerial photograph of the streets in front of Detroit City Hall. The streets are full of cars, trolleys, and pedestrians. Lining the streets are several tall buildings.

Aerial photograph of Hudson's department store surrounded by other tall buildings.

Another of Joe Clark HBSS photographs which shows that things were beginning to change in the Hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. A wood fence in need of repair is set among overgrown weeds, awaiting for someone to take care of it.

Photograph of a young boy with his head out of a broken window in a building with wood siding.

Photograph of a young boy with his head out of a broken window in a building with wood siding.

Photograph of Alex Cline bending over to closely inspect the impurities he is skimming off the sorghum molasses with his homemade ladle.

Photograph of Alex Cline bending over to closely inspect the impurities he is skimming off the sorghum molasses with his homemade ladle.

Photograph of alligators swimming in water at an alligator farm. A brick wall in the background has the words "Alligators" and "farm" painted on it.

Photograph of a large number of alligators in a small pond. Other alligators can be seen lounging in the background next to the pond.

Photograph of a large number of alligators in an enclosure. Some of the alligators are lounging and others are swimming in a pond.

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

Photograph of a funhouse and a lit amusement ride at a fair. A crowd of people stand near the funhouse as others walk past it. People can be seen on the amusement ride.

Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was taken in the late 1930s. Hamtramck, Michigan is a small town and Polish community surrounded by the city of Detroit. Anna Ruzylo is my great grandmother. There are not many photos of my great grandmother in the archive since she came over from Poland very late in life. My wife, Kay, and I named our daughter Anna Marie Clark in her honor.

Photograph of an antique stone sharpening wheel in the middle of tall and short weeds attached to an old wood frame. Next to the sharpening wheel is an old barrel. There is a wire fence behind the sharpening wheel with the end post directly behind the wheel. In the background, it looks to be a dirt road leading somewhere coming up alongside where the sharping wheel is placed. Also in the background, it looks to be a field with a building off to the right edge of the photo. There is some kind of cone-shaped object placed on a fence post.

Photograph of an unidentified woman pouring sugar into the apple butter as a young boy stirs. In the image, the group is outside with the kettle over an open flame and a wood home can be seen behind them.

Photograph of a young boy stirring boiling apple butter over an open flame. In the image, the boy is wearing winter clothing holding the paddle stirrer while sitting in a wooden chair outside.

Photograph of an unidentified woman, stirring boiling apple butter with an paddle stirrer over an open flame. In the image, the woman is seated, due to the physical intensity of the task, a few feet from the copper kettle.

Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Franklin D. Roosevelt Wright making apple butter by the spring house outside of their home in the hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. This picture is in Joe Clark, HBSS, small book called "A Few Grains of Corn" from the General Store. The envelope containing the negative is inscribed "Clark Bruce's; Junebug's Aunt; Mary Well's"

Photograph of a girl pouring sugar into the kettle. In the image, the unidentified girl is adding sugar to the apple butter while I boy stands over another bag of HERSHEY'S PURE CANE SUGAR.