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[Erma Welch on her porch]

Description: Portrait of Erma Welch on her porch in Cumberland Gap Tennessee. 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. This image is used in Joe Clark's book "Back Home" accompanied by a poem titled, " In Lonesome Tennessee." Down yonder in the valley In lonesome Tennessee Sits my little Sally A waitin’ there for me. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 0001-51
Date: 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Douglas Clark with "Junebug" Wade Hampton Clark, Jr.]

Description: Photograph of Douglas Clark with his father, Wade Hampton Clark, Jr. (Junebug) playing out-of-doors. Junebug is lying on his back in the grass and Douglas is crouched near his head, touching his face with one hand and reaching for his dad's hat with the other. A bush is visible behind them.
Date: 1946~
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Alone at Last]

Description: Photograph taken during a "stir off" of two couples embracing next to a stack of sorghum stalks arrange din an upright bundle to the right. It was taken during a
Date: [1940..1946]
Creator: Clark, Joe
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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farm scene]

Description: Photograph of a farm in the hills. There are multiple buildings adjacent to a fenced in crop area. There is an expansive mountain view in the background of the photograph.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aunt Tilda]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: "Photograph is of Aunt Tilda from 1941 taken in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Not an aunt related by blood, but one earned by age and respect." Aunt Tilda was 87 years old in this photograph. On the envelope containing the negative Russell T. Forte notes that in March of 1962 the photo was used for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Photography Division Centennial photo exhibit.
Date: 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Threshing crew dinner]

Description: Russell T. Forte has written on the envelope containing the negative that the photograph was used in March of 1962 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture photography division for the centennial photo exhibit. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from the 1940s and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Here in this shot, which is an outtake, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aunt Tilda]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: "Photograph is of Aunt Tilda from 1941 taken in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Not an aunt related by blood, but one earned by age and respect." Aunt Tilda was 87 years old in this photograph. On the envelope containing the negative Russell T. Forte notes that in March of 1962 the photo was used for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Photography Division Centennial photo exhibit.
Date: 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Revolver in pocket]

Description: Photograph of a Smith & Wesson revolver tucked in the rear pocket of Junebug clark's pants. The envelope containing the negative lists the weapon as a "3T Special".
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking my girl home]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Molasses Making Stir-off - Walking My Girl Home 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 Texas Spe… more
Date: 1942
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Threshing crew]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from 1940 and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe used to point out that this photo was taken, "before women's lib." Here in this shot, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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