[Barbed wire coil hanging on timber pole, 3]

One of 5,145 photographs in the series: Joe Clark, HBSS, 1939-1989 available on this site.

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Photograph of barbed wire hanging on a timber pole. The barbed wire is dark in color with the timber pole being light in color. There is a piece of wood attached horizontally on the timber pole presumably to keep the barbed wire coil from falling. Below the coil, at the very bottom of the photo, there is a barbed wire strand coming into the timber pole and is wrapped around it in order to keep the barbed wire strand tight. The dark and light coloring of the sky indicates an overcast day. Looking at the background directly behind the pole … continued below

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Clark, Joe [1939..1989].

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Photograph of barbed wire hanging on a timber pole. The barbed wire is dark in color with the timber pole being light in color. There is a piece of wood attached horizontally on the timber pole presumably to keep the barbed wire coil from falling. Below the coil, at the very bottom of the photo, there is a barbed wire strand coming into the timber pole and is wrapped around it in order to keep the barbed wire strand tight. The dark and light coloring of the sky indicates an overcast day. Looking at the background directly behind the pole is a line of dense trees running horizontally across the photo.

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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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  • Jan. 22, 2015, 9:08 p.m.

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Clark, Joe. [Barbed wire coil hanging on timber pole, 3], photograph, [1939..1989]; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc489702/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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