[Photograph of the old general store]

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Photograph of the front room of a general store. There are nine people in the room either looking at merchandise, behind the counter, or playing instruments. Behind the sales counter are advertisements for lottery tickets and smoking pipes. A woman can be seen buying a chicken and a young girl buying a deck of cards.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 20 in.

Creation Information

Clark, Joe [1939..1989].

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Clark Family Photography Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photograph of the front room of a general store. There are nine people in the room either looking at merchandise, behind the counter, or playing instruments. Behind the sales counter are advertisements for lottery tickets and smoking pipes. A woman can be seen buying a chicken and a young girl buying a deck of cards.

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 20 in.

Notes

Digitization of this item was sponsored by a grant from The Headliners Foundation.

A poem accompanies the photo, The Old General Store, "We all used to sit around the old general store But we don't sit around no more For the days are gone and the store is gone And a supermarket aint no store." hbss

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  • Preferred Citation: Clark Family Photography Collection (AR0749), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Clark Family Photography Collection

This seminal work of visual storytelling represents the extensive Clark family archives from the golden age of American photography. Their work has featured in Life Magazine, National Geographic, Look and Newsweek.

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  • [1939..1989]

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  • May 22, 2015, 9:33 a.m.

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  • Aug. 8, 2023, 11:28 a.m.

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Clark, Joe. [Photograph of the old general store], photograph, [1939..1989]; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc505063/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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