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[Envelope to Joe from Lapeer County Press]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Envelope is from December 30, 1982, Farmington, Michigan. Envelope was used to return a poem by Joe Clark, HBSS from the Lapeer County Press in Lapeer, Michigan. Joe had a weekly photo and poem or witticism in the Lapeer County Press that ran for maybe 15 years or more. Frank and Gladys Cooper, writers for the Press were good family friends who would drop by and pick out a pile of photos. The Cooper's created and managed the column.
Date: December 30, 1982
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Type Written Caption]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Caption is from December 30, 1982, Farmington, Michigan. Type written photo caption written by Joe Clark, HBSS for the Lapeer County Press in Lapeer, Michigan. Joe had a weekly photo and poem or witticism in the Lapeer County Press that ran for maybe 15 years or more. Frank and Gladys Cooper, writers for the Press were good family friends who would drop by and pick out a pile of photos. The Cooper's created and managed the column.
Date: 1982
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Abraham Lincoln pyramid]

Description: Photograph of a pyramid made of stones with a relief of Abraham Lincoln's profile of it. In the image, the pyramid is in an open lawn and large homes can be seen in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aging wood fence]

Description: Another of Joe Clark HBSS photographs which shows that things were beginning to change in the Hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. A wood fence in need of repair is set among overgrown weeds, awaiting for someone to take care of it.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Anna Ruzylo in the Kitchen]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was taken in the late 1930s. Hamtramck, Michigan is a small town and Polish community surrounded by the city of Detroit. Anna Ruzylo is my great grandmother. There are not many photos of my great grandmother in the archive since she came over from Poland very late in life. My wife, Kay, and I named our daughter Anna Marie Clark in her honor.
Date: 193X
Creator: Clark, Joe, HBSS
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Apple butter]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman pouring sugar into the apple butter as a young boy stirs. In the image, the group is outside with the kettle over an open flame and a wood home can be seen behind them.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Apple butter]

Description: Photograph of a young boy stirring boiling apple butter over an open flame. In the image, the boy is wearing winter clothing holding the paddle stirrer while sitting in a wooden chair outside.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Apple butter]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman, stirring boiling apple butter with an paddle stirrer over an open flame. In the image, the woman is seated, due to the physical intensity of the task, a few feet from the copper kettle.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Apple Butter Making]

Description: Photograph of Aunt Nora Treece and Franklin D. Roosevelt Wright making apple butter by the spring house outside of their home in the hills of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. This picture is in Joe Clark, HBSS, small book called "A Few Grains of Corn" from the General Store. The envelope containing the negative is inscribed "Clark Bruce's; Junebug's Aunt; Mary Well's"
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. 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 Co… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. 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 Co… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. 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 Co… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aunt Esther at the Kitchen Table]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo was taken during the late 1930s in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck is a small town and Polish community surrounded by the city of Detroit. My Aunt Esther (can’t recall her maiden name at this time) is featured at the kitchen table. She would eventually marry Bill Krent and have 4 children: Jackie, David, Marsha and Claudia.
Date: 193X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aunt Georgia]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Hamtramck, Michigan is a small town and Polish community surrounded by the city of Detroit. This photo was taken in the late 1930s. The girl in this photo is “Aunt Georgia.” A honorary title because she moved in and lived with our family in the years before I was born. Photo by: Bernice Clark.
Date: 193X
Creator: Clark, Bernice
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Aunt Julia McCreary]

Description: Photograph of Aunt Julia McCreary. In the image, McCreary is seating in a rocking chair with the Bible open in her lap. A lamp is lit on a side table next to her.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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