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[Mountain Funeral: Women Sitting]

Description: Photograph of a women sitting down during the viewing. In the image, one young boy stands next to more children sitting on the laps of two women. Adolescent girls stand together on the left while two more women stand in the right looking at the camera.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mountain Funeral: The Viewing]

Description: Photography of a mountain funeral. In the image, a large group of people stand side by side inside a small room for a funeral viewing. Everyone is dressed in church attire and are looking at something to the right of the camera.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mountain Funeral: Viewing]

Description: Photograph of mourners viewing the body. In the image, woman are crying as the look inside the open casket, one woman is weeping holding a baby. Behind them are more people crying with large windows showing large tree covered hills outside.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hands]

Description: Photograph of an older woman identified as aunt Joanna Owens Wright of Speedwell Tennessee, with a young girl in her lap. In the image, they are seated in a wooden chair and both are wearing dresses.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A dirt road through a wooded area]

Description: Photograph of a dirt road that runs through a forested area, leading toward a large hill in the background. A junction in the road and a large puddle are at the bottom of the hill, near the center of the image.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[View overlooking a hill landscape]

Description: Photograph of a view overlooking the bottom of a hill, taken from behind a barbed-wire fence, in between trees in a forested area. At the bottom of the hill, two small buildings near plowed crop fields are visible, including baled hay on the right side of the road. The hills in the background are heavily forested.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Baby in bedroom]

Description: Photograph of a baby sitting with a bottle. In the image, the infant is sitting on a thin blanket inside a bedroom with a bed along the back wall and a large chest on the other side. The walls are decorated with newspapers and and clothes hanging in the corner.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hazel Petrey and Gilbert Dove leaving her house]

Description: Photograph of Hazel Petrey and Gilbert Dove leaving through the front gate of Petrey's home before they collect pine-baugh and mountain laurel. The pine-baugh and mountain laurel will be used as decorations at the Sunny View Methodist Church for their wedding. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941, issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also in the Joe Clark, HBSS book “Country Wedding," pu… more
Date: June 15, 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Watermill, 3]

Description: Photograph of a watermill through the trees. In the image, the large watermill water spout connects across to a hill and a small water fall can be seen flowing out.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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

[Peeling apples]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman smiling at the camera while peeling apples. In the image, a large pile of apple peels sit in front of her while the cut apples sit on a table inside a large bowl.
Date: [1960..1970]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Placing the wedding ring]

Description: Photograph of Gilbert Dove placing the ring on Hazel Petrey's finger during their wedding ceremony. Preacher Hiram Frakes officiates. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941 issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also in the Joe Clark, HBSS book “Country Wedding," published in 1974. Additionally a 1982 photo of Hazel and Gilbert can be found in Joe’s Tennessee Scrapbook. All are in the Clark … more
Date: June 15, 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Decorating for the wedding]

Description: Photograph of Hazel Petrey and Gilbert Dove decorating the interior of Sunny View Methodist Church where they will be wed the nest day. Dove and Petrey decorate the walls with recently collected pine-bough and mountain laurel from around the area. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941 issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also in the Joe Clark, HBSS book “Country Wedding," published in 197… more
Date: June 14, 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bride and groom at the altar]

Description: Photograph of Hazel Petrey and Gilbert Dove at the altar of the Sunny View Methodist Church during their wedding ceremony. Bridesmaids, Anna Ruth Petrey, Mabel Henderson, and Gerry Petrey stand to their left, and groomsman Bob Green stands to their right. The ceremony is presided over by Parson Hiram Frakes. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941 issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also… more
Date: June 15, 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pig]

Description: Photograph of a sleeping pig. In the image, the pigs head fills the frame leaving the rest of the background out of focus.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cleaning a brush]

Description: Photograph of a woman cleaning weaving brushes. In the image, the unidentified woman is seated using the brushes to clean out any caught threads from the brush's bristles. Behind her is a collection of weaving instruments and fabrics.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Gilbert Dove places the ring on Hazel Petrey's finger]

Description: Photograph of Gilbert Dove placing the ring on Hazel Petrey's finger at their wedding. Preacher Hiram Frakes officiates. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941 issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also in the Joe Clark, HBSS book “Country Wedding," published in 1974. Additionally a 1982 photo of Hazel and Gilbert can be found in Joe’s Tennessee Scrapbook. All are in the Clark Family Photog… more
Date: June 15, 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hallie Mae Hopper in a window]

Description: Photograph of Hallie Mae Hopper leaning outside a window. In the image, Hopper is resting her chin on her palm looking out the open window. The initials "J.H.K" are carved into the bottom right of the wood underneath the window.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[On the canoe]

Description: Photograph of a group of three people on a canoe in the creek. In the image, the group of two girls and one boy are inside the canoe, one sitting and two standing, in the middle of a creek. Large trees go all the way to the shoreline.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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