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[Grinding Cane]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane is fed into a mule drawn press where the juice is extracted and collected. 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 Collect… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Building wagon wheels]

Description: Photograph of three men and one boy building large wooden wheels for farm equipment at Alex Cline's blacksmith shop in Tennessee. Wade Cline stands in the center swinging a large metal mallet.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Description: 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 Co… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grinding Cane]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane is fed into a mule drawn press where the juice is extracted and collected. 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 Collect… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Old Mag]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farm scene]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Plow team]

Description: Photograph of a boy riding on a makeshift platform that is being dragged by two horses. The horses pull the buy through a dirt field.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking the cows home]

Description: Joe did this as a boy, walking the cows' home with man's best friend, a dog. This is one of the memories Joe captured from his childhood. The patience of man with his animals. Beautiful country side with clouds and just your thoughts while doing your daily chores. This picture was taken in Cumberland Gap Tennessee.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys cleaning oil lamps]

Description: Photograph of of two boys accompanied by a small dog sitting at the steps of a front porch. The two young men are using a bowl of soapy water to clean out the glass chimney, or globe, of many oil lamps.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men preparing for the upcoming stir-off]

Description: Photograph of a group of men performing their individual tasks to prepare for an upcoming sorghum stir-off. The men in the foreground stretch cloth over the opening of a barrel to strain the sweet sorghum juice extracted from the press to their right. In the center of the photograph a man on a tractor is pulling a wagon full of sorghum cane. Two other men are visible walking along a path in the background of the photo.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children in a corn crib]

Description: Photograph of three small children sitting in the edge of the door of a corn crib. There is a dog standing at the edge of the step ladder. In the background of the photograph there is a harvested field of corn and a mountain covered in trees.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvesting sorghum cane]

Description: Photograph of a young boy seated on mule while a man and four girls gather harvested cane and place it on a sled. There are tree covered mountains and hills visible in the background of the photograph.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Blacksmith shoeing horse]

Description: Photograph of a blacksmith holding the hoof of a horse as he prepares to hammer the shoe in place. The blacksmith is looking up at the camera with a cigar hanging from his mouth.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys play in a barn]

Description: Photograph of two boys playing in the cane stalks at a stir-off. From Junebug Clark: Photograph of two young boys playing in the hay after a morning's work on the farm. Wrestling was a great sport in the lay in the barn. Kids in the 1940's looked for fun outdoors and did a lot of exploring.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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