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[Mountain Boy with Rifle]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell in the woods. In this image, Powell, with his body facing away from the camera, is holding a rifle looking back and up over his shoulder. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell: Mountain Boy]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell holding a large rifle with a dog along a fence line. In the image the boy is surveying the farmland in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of what Joe recalled his life to be. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0058-33
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Old timer with moonshine]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man sitting on a tree stump. The man is holding a mason jar with a clear liquid, assumed to be moonshine. The photograph is taken through the coils of a still.
Date: [1950..1980]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mountain Boy]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell standing outside with a rifle, possibly in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Fog and mountains can be seen in the background. A poem titled "The Call of the Mountains" is typed beneath the photo on the mat. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell with Old Tize]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell with his arm around his dog Old Tize, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image, Powell is sitting on the edge of a porch, smiling to something left of the camera. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0016-13
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell Catches a Snapping Turtle]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell catching a snapping turtle with his bare hands in Keg Branch, a creek, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. He wears pants, but no shirt, and he holds the turtle by the tail. Rocks and foliage line the sides of the creek. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 9276-0002-19
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell the Mountain Boy (2)]

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

[Mountain Boy with Shotgun]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Powell is standing on a harvested mountainside, holding a shotgun towards the ground during sunrise while the clouds hang low to the ground below the hill tops. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mountain Boy Fishing]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell, also known as "Mountain Boy," bent over in a creek in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image, Powell, shirtless, is fishing in a creek with trees lining all sides of the creek. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys Playing in Creek]

Description: Photograph of three boys playing in a creek, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Rocks and trees line the edges of the water. Narrative by Junebug Clark: We are being taught how to catch fish with our bare hands by Jimmy Powell. In the center is my Detroit cousin Tom Krent who made trips to Tennessee with us. I, Junebug Clark am on the right. Jimmy is showing us how to feel under rocks and catch fish, or craw dads or snapping turtles. We are on my father's farm, "Vertical Acres" fishing in Keg Branch. more
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Buildings on Hill]

Description: Photograph of two wooden buildings situated on a hill, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Windows on the nearest building appear to be boarded up. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mountain Boy]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell stretched out on a hill, with a gun lying next to him. Further down the hill is a dog, and beyond it are more hills and distant trees as well as two small farmhouses and a field. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
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]

Description: Photograph of the baptism of Ivana Wright, who is standing a creek next to Preacher Hugh Vancel; Vancel is facing the bank and raising one of his hands toward the crowd standing on the bank. Immediately behind them, Hester Welch, Minnie Hicks, Cleo McCurey, Lilian Hicks, and Lenore Treece are also in the creek, standing in line. The baptisms took place in the Olde Towne Creek outside John Owen's home in Red Hill, Tennessee.
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell Swinging From Grapevine]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell swinging from a grapevine in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image Powell, is swinging through the trees while hanging on to a grapevine. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy." Narrative by Junebug Clark: Also more Jimmy Powell photos appear in Joe's book "I Remember" Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS.
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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