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[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

[Photograph of a men's cooking contest]

Description: Photograph of a men's cooking contest. Two men stand behind tables cluttered with dishes and ingredients. A tall, metal lamp stands in front of them. A stove, oven, and refrigerator sit against the wall behind them. A sign hangs on the wall above the stovetop that reads, "Men's Cooking Contest." The image of a woman in a rocky landscape is superimposed over the photograph.
Date: [1930..1950]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Southwestern Lore

Description: Collection of a miscellany of Texas and Mexican folklore, including folk stories about treasure hunters, cowboys, Native Americans, and razorback hogs, as well as myths, customs and other superstitions. The index of song material begins on page 192 and the general index begins on page 193.
Date: 1931
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

[Storing away preserves ]

Description: Photograph of a woman putting preserves away in storage. The woman is on the right side of the image placing a large mason jar on a shelf with about 30 other full jars. A second shelf is underneath it with about 20 jars varying in sizes, and another 30 sit at the woman's feet. She appears to be storing the jars in a basement.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman serving food]

Description: Photograph of a woman in a kitchen, serving food into a bowl. On the counter in front of her are two pots full of food and several plates with more food.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A boy with a slice of pie, 2]

Description: Portrait of a boy holding a slice of pie in his hands. He is looking directly at the camera and smiling. The boy is wearing a striped shirt and tie. A solid-colored wall can be seen in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A boy with a slice of pie]

Description: Portrait of a boy holding a slice of pie in his hands. He is looking directly at the camera and smiling. The boy is wearing a striped shirt and tie. A solid-colored wall can be seen in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a beer box, 2]

Description: Photograph of an open cardboard box on a metal pole that reads, "Drink Grand Prize South's Famous Beer, Gulf Brewing Company, Houston, Texas." The box is worn and dirty. A short metal can or pole sits on the gravel in the background.
Date: [1930..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman adding ingredients to a cauldron]

Description: Photograph of an older woman adding ingredients to a cauldron outside. The cauldron sits on a small fire pit in the lower left corner of the image, and the woman stands right above it slightly bending over to add the ingredient in. In the background, a back porch connected to a house can be seen.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women peeling and slicing apples, 3]

Description: Photograph of a large group women peeling and slicing apples outside of a house at night. The women sit closely together and are working diligently on the apples, taking apples to carve from one metal basin and putting the slices in another. A few children help with peeling, and there is a wooden wagon filled with more apples sitting in the foreground of the image on the right.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mixing dough by hand, 2]

Description: Photograph of a man mixing what appears to be dough in a barrel. The man is positioned out of frame, only being able to see his arms and legs. It's night time during the dough mixing, with one light shining on the barrel coming from off camera.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women making molasses]

Description: Photograph of four older women making molasses together. Two of the women are in the foreground of the picture mixing the molasses, and the other two women are in the middle ground of the picture leaning against a post watching them mix, one of them holding a pail under her arm. The women are all wearing collared dresses with their hair off their shoulders, and are outside in a grassy place with a wood covering over them.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman sitting and stirring a pot, 2]

Description: Photograph of a woman outside in a backyard stirring a large pot. The woman uses a long stirring tool to stir the pot and sits in a chair about 6 feet away. In the background of the image stands a couple of small wooden sheds and hills covered with trees.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman shuffling through apple slices]

Description: Photograph of a woman shuffling through apple slices in a metal basin. The woman is positioned on the left side of the image and is bent over to reach the apples slices sitting on the porch beneath her. A wooden water well can be seen in the background, with a pulley system hanging above it.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two women making molasses]

Description: Photograph of two women at a pause while mixing molasses together. The woman in the foreground is looking off frame while holding her stirrer at her waist, and has a little girl with pinned braids at her side. The woman in the middle ground is looking at the first woman while pouring molasses from her stirrer. They both are wearing collared dresses and have their hair off their shoulders. Steam from the molasses fills most of the air outside, where a house is sitting on a grassy hill behind the… more
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman making apple butter]

Description: Photograph of a woman making apple butter outside in a yard. The woman stands just left of center in the image and looks at something off camera to her right, she stirs the apple butter in front of her with a large wooden stirrer. The corner of a building and its fencing can be seen to the right of her, and a large field and hills covered with trees make up the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman holding a glass jar]

Description: Photograph of a woman holding a large glass jar filled with a substance. The woman stands on the left side of the image and holds the jar out with both of her hands on the right side of the image, she looks down at the jar with a furrowed brow. She stands outside in what appears to be a backyard, two buildings and fencing can be seen in the background and the sky takes up the rest of the image.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young boys peeling apples, 2]

Description: Photograph of a group of young boys peeling apples. The boys sit on the right side of the image and face the right, all of them have their backs to the camera except for one boy who stands in front of them. Behind them on the left is a wooden well that has a pile of peeled apples sitting in a bowl on top of it.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Peeling apples in a kitchen, 2]

Description: Photograph of two older women and a young man and boy peeling apples together in a kitchen, the women sitting on the left of the image and the boys sitting on the right, forming a half circle. They peel apples into a bin that sits in their laps, with a basket of unpeeled apples sitting in the center of them. A table sits in the corner of the room with a bin of peeled apple slices.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cutting up apple slices, 2]

Description: Photograph of a small group of people cutting and peeling apples into slices. A man and a woman sit on the left side of the image and two women to the right of them lean over to listen to their conversation, while another woman on the far right stares at something off camera. There are four different bins sat in the middle of the group filled with apples in different stages of the process, and more people can be seen working in the background on the right.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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