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[Grinding cane]

Description: Photograph of a mean wearing tattered clothes as he kneels next to a mule powered press. The man feeds sorghum cane into the machine to extract the sweet sorghum juice used for sorghum molasses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mule powered press]

Description: Photograph of a young boy feeding sorghum cane into a mule powered press that sits atop a hill. There are many tree covered hills and mountains visible in the background. There are also numerous others in the background of the photograph doing prep work for the upcoming sorghum molasses stir-off.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Telephone]

Description: Photograph of a telephone mounted on the wall next to a door and other various items in a general store. To the left of the telephone are various food and kitchen products. To the right of the telephone are horse bridles and leather belts.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Coal miner]

Description: Photograph of a coal miner wearing a headlamp while using a hand crank drill in a mine. A pickaxe lays on the ground near the miner.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Telephone]

Description: Photograph of a telephone and other various items on the wall of a general store. To the left of the telephone are various food and kitchen products. To the right of the telephone are horse bridles and leather belts.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Extracting juice]

Description: Photograph of two young boys using a mule powered press to extract the sweet juices from the sorghum cane. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Stir-off preparations]

Description: Photograph of an open field at the edge of a mountain range. In the field, there is a mule driven mill being used to extract sorghum juice. On the left of the image there is a fire pit and a woman preparing the large metal vat to be filled with sorghum juice.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farm equipment]

Description: Photograph of a hay mower, a hay rake, a steel plow, and other miscellaneous farming equipment in a clearing in front of a wooded area.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a metalsmithing workshop, 1]

Description: Photograph of a blacksmith's workshop. Closest to the camera is a wooden stump with a metal pole stuck through the top. Off to the side is a small barrel and some mechanical parts. Behind the first stump, is a larger stump with an anvil, some small hammers, a stone block, and a wooden block. Next to that is another, larger hammer. In the back along the back side wall of the workshop is a smithing forge filled with coals and other tools. On either side are more tools and other miscellaneous tool… more
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young boy building a cart]

Description: Photograph of a young boy building a wooden cart outside. The boy is working on the ground on the left side of the image and holds the base of his cart as he secures the handle to pull it with. A hammer and saw lie on the ground near him, and a wooden basket for the cart sits on the right side of the image.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two men quenching a wheel]

Description: Photograph of two men outside quenching a wheel they work on. They place the wheel into a small basin and steam billows from the wheel, neither of the men's faces are able to be seen. The man on the right hold a sledge hammer, and discarded materials are seen lying on the ground near them.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Processing grain through a mill]

Description: Photograph of a man and woman processing grain through a mill to create flour. The man stands on a tall platform in the top right corner of the image, pouring a bucket of grain into the mill, while the woman shovels the flour into a sack in the bottom left corner. The mill they're in is made entirely of wood, and a ladder hangs up on the wall behind the woman.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man putting a wheel together]

Description: Photograph of a man putting together a wheel in a workshop. The man is focused on the wheel and uses a large wooden tool to assemble the wheel, which he places in the spokes of the wheel. Another man stands next to him and observes his work, in the background a variety of tools can be seen hanging on the wall.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Press and mountains]

Description: Photograph of a mule powered press with a mountainous landscape in the background. The press is being used to extract sweet sorghum juice from sorghum cane to make molasses. Two men operate the press while a small girl and two women stand off to the side of the photo. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two workers in a shed's entryway]

Description: Photograph of two workers standing in the entryway of a work shed. The man on the right leans against the frame of the entryway and rests an axe on his right shoulder, the man on the left is walking up to the entry and carries a large piece of lumber over his left shoulder. In the background of the image, unfinished wheels and scraps materials can be seen strewn across the ground.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photographic print of wheelwright bending wood]

Description: Photograph of a photographic print depicting a wheelwright bending a piece of wood in a workshop. The wheelwright is bent over on the right side of the print cranking the machine he uses to bend the wood, which curves high up in the air to his left. Two young girls sit and watch him work in the background, and a young boy with his back to the camera in the bottom right corner helps feed the wood into the machine.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hammering nails into fabric]

Description: Photograph of two women hammering nails into the edges of a piece of fabric to quilt. The two women stand on either side of the image, the one on the left actively uses the hammer while the one on the right holds her hand up by her waist, presumably holding nails to be hammered in. The women work outside, and hills covered in trees can be seen past the fence line in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Three workers crafting a wheel]

Description: Photograph of three workers crafting a wheel outside of a work shed. Two of the workers use large clamps on the rims of the wheel while one of them stands on top hammering the metal on the sides. Steam billows from the wheel being worked on, and in the background a man and young boy holding a wheel can be seen observing the process.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hammering metal for a wheel]

Description: Photograph of two men hammering metal into a circle to put on a wheel. The men work at an anvil in a work shed, where they both hammer the metal into shape at its base. The work shed is dark except for one light illuminating the scene from off camera, other tools can be seen hanging on the wall in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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