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[Erma Welch on her Porch(1)]

Description: Photograph of Erma Welch mounted along with a poem by Joe Clark HBSS. In the image, Welch sits balancing a wooden chair from her toes, hands in her lap wearing a floral dress, looking at the camera smiling. Behind Welch is a wall made of wood with coats and other items hanging from hooks. The pictured woman is named as Buela Welch on the sleeve containing the negative while also being named Erma Welch in Joe Clark's photography books. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clar… more
Date: 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Jimmy Powell the Mountain Boy (1)]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph of Jimmy Powell, laying down, shirtless, on top a mountain in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image a farm can be seen on the next hill and Powell has a shotgun, almost the size of his body, laying next to him and his hunting dog off in the distance On the bottom of the image, "Lazy Bones," is handwritten. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of wh… more
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Baptising in Olde Towne Creek (1)]

Description: Photograph of Reverend Hugh Vancel performing a baptism in Olde Town Creek near Red Hill, Tennessee. The reverend is standing in the creek and facing a large crowd of people on the bank, and holding the arm of a young girl standing next to him; several other girls, a woman and a man are also standing in the creek, on the left. A building with wood siding is visible in the background.
Date: 1938
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pile of sorghum(1)]

Description: Photograph of two young boys seated atop a pile of sorghum stalks outside of a corn crib. 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

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

[Roadside stir-off(1)]

Description: Photograph of three women tending to large metal vats of boiling sorghum juice under a makeshift wooden shelter. There is a small child standing along a wooden railing in the foreground of the picture.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men sawing a log(1)]

Description: Photograph of two men cutting a log. The men use a large crosscut saw while another uses an axe to hold the log in place. In the foreground a dog lays on the ground and a boy sits on the log.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking home by lantern light(1)]

Description: Photograph of Cecil Ray with his arm around a Bonnie Burns as they walk along a gravel path. Burns carries a gas lamp while the Cecil Ray carries a small pail of sorghum molasses while they both laugh and smile. Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Walking Home by Lantern Light. This is a typical scene at the end of a stir-off event. It is a scene Joe tried to capture many times. It is a good shot and has been published, but it is not the "kill-shot" the one "picture that tells a… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Wagon ride to the stir off(1)]

Description: Photograph of a group of young men and women riding in a horse drawn wagon as it arrives at the sorghum molasses stir-off. There is a large group of people surrounding a burst of steam in the background of the photograph.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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