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[Grinding Sorghum Cane]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane is fed into a press where the juice is extracted and collected latter to be boiled down in large vats to turn it 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 c… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grinding Sorghum]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane is fed into a mule drawn press where the juice is extracted and collected latter to be boiled down in large vats to turn it 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 the… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grinding Cane into the Night]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Through the night sorghum cane is fed into a press where the juice is extracted and collected later to be boiled down for days in large vats to turn it 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 infor… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boy and Girl Warming their Hands and Watching the Molasses Boil Down]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Ladling or stirring off the impurities of the 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 in the Clark Family Collection at the University of North T… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grinding Sorghum Cane]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Sorghum cane is fed into a mule powered press where the juice is extracted and collected latter to be boiled down in large vats to turn it 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 … more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Making Molasses]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Reverend Hugh Vancel ladling or stirring off the impurities of the 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 in the Clark Family Collection at the … more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Making Molasses]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors watch the ladling or stirring off the impurities of the 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 in the Clark Family Collect… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Making Molasses]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Ladling or stirring off the impurities of the 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 in the Clark Family Collection at the University of North T… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Joe Clark holding a quart jar full of moonshine]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark holding up a quart jar full of moonshine. Joe sits in a carved out hollow surrounded by moonshine stills. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Joe documented scores of Moonshine Stills, usually located by his youngest brother, my Uncle Junebug. A number of them appear in his book, "White Lightning." Joe preferred to calling these "Mountain Coffee Mills." Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 0013-111
Date: 1939
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Junebug stuck in the mud]

Description: Photograph of Junebug Clark stuck in the mud. In the image, Joe Clark is helping his brother, Junebug, get his car out from being stuck in the mud. The road appears to be in 6 inches of mud and the in front of the car trees and hills can be seen.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Joe and Wade Hampton Clark, Jr.]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark with his brother Wade Hampton, Jr. riding horses. In the image, the two men wearing sports jackets and hats look towards the camera down a gravel path. Joe is holding a camera and smiling at the camera.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Joe Clark receiving a hair cut]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark receiving a hair cut at Dal Gulley's General Store. In the image, Clark is seated on a large barrel with a tarp over his body while getting his hair trimmed. Around them are items for purchase inside the store like knifes, grains, pipes, tonic, etc.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Joe Clark making a hickory chair]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark pulling a hickory tree into strips to making a tree. In the image, Clark is pulling a thin strip from a tall hickory tree while a young girl watches in interest. The tree is leaning against a wooden structure while two more can be seen behind the couple.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Chance]

Description: Photograph of Dr. Chance, the man who delivered Joe Clark. In the image, Dr. Chance is sitting leaned back on a wooden chair next to a desk covered with papers and a window. A telephone can be seen hanging on the wall behind him a long with a cardboard box underneath the desk.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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