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[Walk by lamp light]

Description: Photograph of a young man and woman walking along a dirt path at night. They are arm in arm and the man is carrying a gas lamp. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kiss]

Description: Photograph of a couple kissing as a crowd of onlookers watches in wonderment. There is a car parked in the background and a couple kids seated on horses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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
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

[Under the bridge]

Description: Photograph of a young couple passing underneath a human bridge created by a man and woman's outstretched arms. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Crowded kiss]

Description: Photograph of a young man kissing a woman while surrounded by a circle of onlookers. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Seated closely by the molasses]

Description: Photograph of a young couple sitting close together near a large metal vat of boiling sorghum juice. There is a crowd of people visible through a thick layer of steam as a man and woman use homemade ladles to skim off impurities.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Couple exchanging sop sticks]

Description: Photograph of a young couple offering each other their sop stick, used to dip into the boiling sorghum molasses and taste. The man and the women both are wearing rings on their ring fingers and the man has his tie tucked into his N&W Overalls.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking Home by Lantern Light(2)]

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. A typed poem is mounted to the right of the photograph on a mat.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Couple dancing with crowd watching from above]

Description: More than 100 persons from Dallas contributed to the Mexican state of Colima to be entered in the next Guinness book of world records for having created the world's largest lemonade at 3500 liters. 20,000 lemons, or one ton, from the valleys of Colima along with 3750 liters of water and 56 liters of syrup beat out the previous record holder of 2500 liters that was created in Victoria, Australia in 1996.
Date: August 6, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Couple dancing with fruit in foreground and crowd watching from above]

Description: More than 100 persons from Dallas contributed to the Mexican state of Colima to be entered in the next Guinness book of world records for having created the world's largest lemonade at 3500 liters. 20,000 lemons, or one ton, from the valleys of Colima along with 3750 liters of water and 56 liters of syrup beat out the previous record holder of 2500 liters that was created in Victoria, Australia in 1996.
Date: August 6, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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