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[James Andrews Harvesting Tobacco]

Photograph of James Andrews and a neighbor harvesting tobacco on his farm in Lynchburg, TN.

Date: 1972-08~

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sorghum Cane]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane stalks being brought to a mule drawn press where the stalks are ground, then the juice from the cane extracted and later poured into vats to be boiled down into molasses. Overall Background: Edit 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. Hu… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mule Power]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Mules and horses were the common 'power plant' used for turning the mill that the stripped down sorghum stalks were fed. The juice from the stalks were pressed and extracted to later be boiled down into molasses in large metal vats. 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 Ga… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[One Mule Power]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 One mule powers this grinding mill where long into the night sorghum cane is pressed and the juice is extracted, then boiled down into molasses. Harvest time and the making of molasses runs 24/7 when the cane is ready. 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 o… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Molasses Making Time]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 In the background center, you can see the grinding mill, usually drawn by a horse or a mule. Sorghum cane stalks are fed into this mill and juice from the stalks are pressed out. Those juices, as you can see the steam rising in the foreground, are being boiled down into molasses. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Most of them on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four m… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Making Molasses]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Douglas Clark, age 7, watches Dolly Goins as she uses a ladle to siphon off impurities in the boiling sorghum juice as it is being turned into molasses. This photo was taken on the farm of the Rev. Hugh Vancel. It appears full page in LIFE Magazine, November 13, 1950, page 157. 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 sout… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Wheat Harvest]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: A 1940s photograph of a farmer harvesting wheat in Cumberland Gap, TN.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[One Mule Power]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: One mule powers this grinding mill where long into the night sorghum cane is pressed, then the juice is extracted and boiled down into molasses. Harvest time and the making of molasses runs 24/7 when the cane is ready. Overall Background: Edit: 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… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvested Sorghum Stalks]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane stalks being gathered. Eventually the stalks are ground and the juice extracted, poured into vats and boiled down into molasses. 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 … more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvested Sorghum Stalks]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane stalks being gathered. Eventually the stalks are ground and the juice extracted, poured into vats and boiled down into molasses. 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 … more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sorghum Cane]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Sorghum cane stalks being brought to a mule drawn press where the stalks are ground, then the juice from the cane extracted and later poured into vats to be boiled down into molasses. 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 V… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boys Man the Sorghum Press]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 One mule powers this grinding mill where sorghum cane is pressed, then the juice is extracted and boiled down into molasses. Here three young boys take turns feeding stalks of sorghum cane into the mule drawn press. 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 B… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvest Time]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Young girl in a field of Sorghum. The sorghum has been stripped and the stalks are ready to harvest. 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 F… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Catching Up on Neighborhood Gossip]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Stir-off time of year is the social event of the season. Families, neighbors and friends gathered and celebrated with dance, song and games while taking turns tending to the day and night harvest of sorghum and the turning it into molasses. In this photo, two ladies take advantage of a break in the action to catch up in current events and gossip before the long winter season. In the background center you can see the grinding mill, usually drawn… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grinding Cane]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane stalks are fed into a press turned by mule power. The juice from the stalks is then poured into vats and boiled down into molasses. Harvest time is a round the clock process where neighbor helps neighbor and Stir-off Parties become a major community event. 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… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bringing the Heat]

From harvesting the sorghum, to extracting cane juices, to boiling it down into molasses, this process can take weeks of round the clock cooperation between families, neighbors and friends to accomplish. As you can see in this photo the vats and fire places used are serious and meant to be used 'round the clock and shared by the harvest community. Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the ear… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvesting Cane]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Young Folks of the Burns and Evans families cut cane. 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 Tex… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvesting Cane]

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sorghum Cane]

Photograph of in a field workers carrying sorghum cane stalks to a mule-drawn press for grinding the stalks. In the lower-left corner, there are steaming vats where the juice is being boiled into molasses.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sorghum Cane Press]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Two men feeding sorghum cane stalks into a press where the juice is extracted and later boiled down into molasses. 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 i… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Threshing crew dinner]

Russell T. Forte has written on the envelope containing the negative that the photograph was used in March of 1962 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture photography division for the centennial photo exhibit. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from the 1940s and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Here in this shot, which is an outtake, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.

Date: 1940

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Threshing crew]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from 1940 and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe used to point out that this photo was taken, "before women's lib." Here in this shot, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.

Date: 1940

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grain Harvest at Frank R. Hurn Farm]

Grain Harvest at Frank R. Hurn Farm. Photo circa 1930: Hurnville, Texas.

Date: 1930~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

[Cotton Wagons on Spring Street - Palestine]

Photo of cotton wagons on Spring Street. Notice the Buckhorn Saloon, Sam Lucas Store and the Star Boarder in the photo.

Date: 1890~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission