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[Mule Power]

Description: 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: 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

[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

[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

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

[Mule driven press]

Description: Photograph of two men using a mule driven press to extract sweet juices from sorghum cane. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mule powered press]

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

[News Script: Mule]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mule who was trying to be captured by control officers. The mule was not captured.
Date: July 31, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Horse Drawn Wagon in Parade

Description: Copy negative of a picture of two men in a covered wagon drawn by two mules in a parade down a street. There is a crowd and businesses behind them. The event is for the "World Premier of Unusual Occupations." Another picture is partially visible on the right.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Parade

Description: Copy negative of a parade scene. There is a little girl riding a horse down the street next to a man walking a mule foal, followed by the HSU six white horses and riders holding the six flags that have flown over Texas. There is a crowd in the background in front of a row of buildings including Doyle's Cafe. There are other pictures partially visible at the top, bottom, and right.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Parade

Description: Copy negative of a parade scene. A man and boy are riding down the street in a wagon pulled by a horse. There are a crowd and shops behind them on the other side of the street. There is a partially visible picture of the HSU Cowboy Band on the left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Men With Mules

Description: Copy negative of Texas A&M students examining mules for signs of diseases. In the picture nine men are wearing what seems like uniforms and are crowing around two mules. In the background there is a big stone building. "Students Looking for Signs of Disease" are written on the bottom of the picture.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Men With Mules

Description: Copy negative of Texas A&M students examining mules for signs of diseases. In the picture nine men are wearing what seems like uniforms and are crowing around two mules. In the background there is a big stone building. "Students Looking for Signs of Disease" are written on the bottom of the picture.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Pickers in Cotton Field

Description: Copy negative of eleven farm workers pausing for a picture in a Mulberry Canyon field. Some workers are members of the Costephens family. They are picking cotton by hand, and a mule drawn wagon is visible behind them.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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