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[Women in the dorm room]

Description: Photograph of four female students posing while reading a newspaper together. In the image the students are seating together on a bed with one of them holding "The Campus Chat" newspaper. Small objects, photographs of two men and a building sit on the desk or pinned on the wall above. A tall dresser and wicker rocking chair can be seen in the foreground. Curtains cover the window behind the group.
Date: 1942
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[Students in Upholstery Class]

Description: Photograph of students upholstering chairs in class. In the image multiple students are standing by their respected chairs and are either adding fabric or measuring the chair for fabric. The room is lined with large tables and window curtains are all closed.
Date: 1942
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[Harve Smith winds up his clock]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was made in the early 1940s at the home of Harve and Bernice Smith somewhere in Canada. In this photo, Harve is winding up a clock in their living room. Harve and Bernice were friends of my parents before I was born and I remember meeting them, but it was probably before I was age of five. I remember that my parents took some pictures during a trip there of some piglets and one very big hog that my mother was particularly proud of. Those photos are in the … more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe, HBSS
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[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
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[Hugh Vancel stirring molasses]

Description: Photograph of Reverend Hugh Vancel using a homemade ladle to stir impurities from the top of the boiling sorghum juice as it turns to molasses. There is a crowd gathered behind him observing. Joe Clark's brother, Junebug is seated wearing glasses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Harve and two Bernices]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was made in the early 1940s at the home of Harve and Bernice Smith somewhere in Canada. In this photo, Harve is placing a call by talking to the operator on an old phone. With Harve is my mother, Bernice, and Harve's wife Bernice. Harve and Bernice were friends of my parents before I was born and I remember meeting them, but it was probably before I was age of five. I remember that my parents took some pictures during a trip there of some piglets and one v… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe, HBSS
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[Whittling sop sticks(1)]

Description: Photograph of a young couple as the young man uses a knife to whittle small pieces of sorghum cane into sop sticks. The sop sticks were used to dip and taste the sorghum molasses being made.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Outhouse with Sears catalog(1)]

Description: Photograph of the inside of an outhouse with a Sears, Roebucks, and Co. catalog. This negative is a copy of the original that was recreated on December 27, 1975. The envelope containing this, and another negative is marked with the initials K.B.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Joe Clark Caught in the Kitchen]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was taken during the late 1930s. Hamtramck, Michigan is a small town and Polish community surrounded by the city of Detroit. Caught in the kitchen drying dishes is my father Joe Clark, HBSS. This is a very early photo of him. I know of only two or three others taken earlier in his life.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Skimming off impurities]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of children gathered around a large metal vat used to boil down sweet sorghum juice into sorghum molasses. The children use shortened pieces of sorghum cane to dip and taste. Two adults use homemade ladles to stir and skim impurities out of the cooking sorghum.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Carrying metal pot]

Description: Photograph of two women carrying a large metal container. One of the women also holds a gas lamp while a gentleman in a hat follows closely behind them. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Dollie Ellison stirring off impurities]

Description: Photograph of Dolly Ellison using a makeshift ladle to stir off and strain out impurities from the boiling sorghum juice as it is boiled down to sorghum molasses. Seven year old Douglas Clark stands by and watches while others are also visible in the background observing.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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