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[Abraham Lincoln pyramid]
Photograph of a pyramid made of stones with a relief of Abraham Lincoln's profile of it. In the image, the pyramid is in an open lawn and large homes can be seen in the background.
[Adults and children outside of school]
Photograph of adults and children standing outside of a one room school house in a wooded area.
[Advertisement for Joe Clark's photography]
Photograph of a piece of paper advertising Joe Clark's photography services. The paper details Clark's residence, studio, and publications he's contributed to.
[Aerial photograph of a mobile home neighborhood]
Photograph of a mobile home neighborhood. All of the houses are identical and lined up in rows with roads going along every other row of houses.
[Aerial photograph of skyscrapers in a city]
Aerial photograph of a downtown area with skyscrapers and one building has a large clockface on the side. The buildings in the distance are covered in a haze.
[Aerial photograph of suburban area]
Photograph of an aerial view of a suburban area with a trailer park on one side of the road and various other buildings on the opposite side.
[Aerial shot of concrete lot full of tractors]
Aerial shot of a concrete lot covered in tractors, plows, and other farm vehicles and some parts of the lot has pop-up tents. Outside of the lot are other buildings including a stadium.
[Aerial view of a downtown Chicago]
Photograph of an aerial view of a downtown space with skyscrapers, a clocktower, greenspace, and a canal.
[Aerial view of a downtown Chicago, 2]
Photograph of an aerial view of a downtown space with skyscrapers, a clocktower, greenspace, and a canal.
[Aerial view of a downtown Chicago, 3]
Photograph of an aerial view of a downtown space with skyscrapers, a clocktower, greenspace, and a canal.
[Aerial view of a downtown Chicago, 4]
Photograph of an aerial view of a downtown space with skyscrapers, a clocktower, greenspace, and a canal.
[Aerial view of downtown Chicago buildings]
Aerial photograph of the buildings of downtown Chicago. At the edge of the buildings is a view of Lake Michigan.
[Aerial view of downtown Detroit, Michigan, 4]
Aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Down on the streets below are cars, trolleys, and trees.
[Aerial view of downtown Detroit, Michigan, 5]
Aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Down on the streets below are cars, trolleys, and trees.
[Aerial view of downtown Detroit, Michigan, 6]
Aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Down on the streets below are cars, trolleys, and trees.
[Aerial view of the area in front of Detroit City Hall]
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.
[Aging wood fence]
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.
Air Conditioned
Photograph of a young boy with his head out of a broken window in a building with wood siding.
Air Conditioned
Photograph of a young boy with his head out of a broken window in a building with wood siding.
[Alex Cline skimming impurities]
Photograph of Alex Cline bending over to closely inspect the impurities he is skimming off the sorghum molasses with his homemade ladle.
[Alex Cline skimming impurities(1)]
Photograph of Alex Cline bending over to closely inspect the impurities he is skimming off the sorghum molasses with his homemade ladle.
[Alligators at an alligator farm]
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.
[Alligators in a pond]
Photograph of a large number of alligators in a small pond. Other alligators can be seen lounging in the background next to the pond.
[Alligators in an enclosure]
Photograph of a large number of alligators in an enclosure. Some of the alligators are lounging and others are swimming in a pond.
[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
[Anna Ruzylo in the Kitchen]
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.
[Antique stone sharping wheel]
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.
[Apple butter]
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.
[Apple butter]
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.
[Apple butter]
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.
[Apple Butter Making]
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"
[Apples in a backyard]
Photograph of a different bins filled with apples in a backyard. The apples sit in the bottom right part of the image on a small porch of what appears to be a shed. Beyond the fence, there are hills and foliage sitting in the background.
[Apples sitting next to a well]
Photograph of five bins of apples sitting in front of a wooden well. The apples are positioned in the lower third of the image and sit on the steps leading to the well. A building is attached to the porch on the right, and an open field can be seen past the fencing in the background.
[Apples sitting next to a well, 2]
Photograph of five bins of apples sitting in front of a wooden well. The apples are positioned in the lower third of the image and sit on the steps leading to the well. A building is attached to the porch on the right, and an open field can be seen past the fencing in the background.
[Arm Wrestling]
Photograph of two men arm wrestling at a bar while two other men observe.
[Arriving at the Stir-off]
Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. 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. World War II was raging. Television did not exist. Radio reception sporadic in this mountain country. School was held only three months a year mostly during the winter months. Most news of the changes in the outside world was learned, they say, “By looking at pictures in the Sears catalogs.” They farmed steep and rolling hillsides of very poor land. In most of America, to help in the war effort, the rationing of food and other essentials was prevalent. Very few of these Tennessee mountaineers and hill folk had homes with electricity. None with …
[Arriving at the Stir-off]
Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. 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. World War II was raging. Television did not exist. Radio reception sporadic in this mountain country. School was held only three months a year mostly during the winter months. Most news of the changes in the outside world was learned, they say, “By looking at pictures in the Sears catalogs.” They farmed steep and rolling hillsides of very poor land. In most of America, to help in the war effort, the rationing of food and other essentials was prevalent. Very few of these Tennessee mountaineers and hill folk had homes with electricity. None with …
[Arriving at the Stir-off]
Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. 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. World War II was raging. Television did not exist. Radio reception sporadic in this mountain country. School was held only three months a year mostly during the winter months. Most news of the changes in the outside world was learned, they say, “By looking at pictures in the Sears catalogs.” They farmed steep and rolling hillsides of very poor land. In most of America, to help in the war effort, the rationing of food and other essentials was prevalent. Very few of these Tennessee mountaineers and hill folk had homes with electricity. None with …
[Attaching spokes to a wheel]
Photograph of a man preparing a spoke to attach to a wheel. The man stands on the left side of the image and files down the end of a spoke, and the wheel he works on sits on top of a table to the right of him. There are tools scattered everywhere around the wheel, and the scene is illuminated from a light off camera on the right.
[Aunt and Uncle Treece separating cotton seeds]
Photograph of Aunt Nora and Uncle Wild Treece pulling cotton through a seed pulling machine made of wood. In the image, the couple is seating across from each other both rotating handles while Aunt Nora feeds the cotton through the gears.
[Aunt China & Uncle Harv]
Photograph of Aunt China and Uncle Harv Sparks sitting near a fireplace in their home living room. Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
[Aunt Esther at the Kitchen Table]
Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was taken during the late 1930s in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck is a small town and Polish community surrounded by the city of Detroit. My Aunt Esther (can’t recall her maiden name at this time) is featured at the kitchen table. She would eventually marry Bill Krent and have 4 children: Jackie, David, Marsha and Claudia.
[Aunt Georgia]
Narrative by Junebug Clark: Hamtramck, Michigan is a small town and Polish community surrounded by the city of Detroit. This photo was taken in the late 1930s. The girl in this photo is “Aunt Georgia.” A honorary title because she moved in and lived with our family in the years before I was born. Photo by: Bernice Clark.
[Aunt Joanna Wright and Aunt Nora Treece looking at quilt patterns]
Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Aunt Joanna Wright looking at quilting patterns. In the image, large square patterns are placed a long their laps as the pair sits by the fireplace.
[Aunt Joanna Wright with quilt]
Photograph of Aunt Joanna Wright showing her quilting skills. In the image, Wright and a young unidentified girl are holding up a quilt to show the pattern.
[Aunt Julia McCreary]
Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary. In the image, McCreary is seating in a rocking chair with the Bible open in her lap. A lamp is lit on a side table next to her.
[Aunt Julia McCreary sitting by a fireplace]
Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary sitting in a rocking chair reading a book by the fireplace.
[Aunt Julia McCreary's living room]
Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary's living room. In the image, a wicker rocking chair sits in front of the fireplace and a piano is placed in the corner. Miscellaneous objects sit on the mantle above the fire.
[Aunt Julia's house]
Photograph of the entrance hall into Aunt Julia McCreary's house. In the image, objects are placed on the rail-less staircase and a wash bin setup is along the wall.
[Aunt Nora and Joanna Wright quilting]
Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece sewing with Joanna Wright. In the image, the two women are seated next to each other with a quilted patterns across their laps. A fireplace with tools and wood can be seen to the left of the pair.
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