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[Mule Power]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Mules and horses were the common 'power plant' used for turning the mill that the stripped down sorghum stalks were fed. The juice from the stalks were pressed and extracted to later be boiled down into molasses in large metal vats. 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 Ga… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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[Plow team]

Description: Photograph of a boy riding on a makeshift platform that is being dragged by two horses. The horses pull the buy through a dirt field.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Harvesting sorghum cane]

Description: Photograph of a young boy seated on mule while a man and four girls gather harvested cane and place it on a sled. There are tree covered mountains and hills visible in the background of the photograph.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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[Grinding cane]

Description: Photograph of a mean wearing tattered clothes as he kneels next to a mule powered press. The man feeds sorghum cane into the machine to extract the sweet sorghum juice used for sorghum molasses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mule powered press]

Description: Photograph of a young boy feeding sorghum cane into a mule powered press that sits atop a hill. There are many tree covered hills and mountains visible in the background. There are also numerous others in the background of the photograph doing prep work for the upcoming sorghum molasses stir-off.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mule driven press]

Description: Photograph of two men using a mule driven press to extract sweet juices from sorghum cane. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mule powered press]

Description: Photograph of two boys using a mule powered press to extract the sweet juice from the sorghum cane. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Extracting juice]

Description: Photograph of two young boys using a mule powered press to extract the sweet juices from the sorghum cane. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Stir-off preparations]

Description: Photograph of an open field at the edge of a mountain range. In the field, there is a mule driven mill being used to extract sorghum juice. On the left of the image there is a fire pit and a woman preparing the large metal vat to be filled with sorghum juice.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Dinkie McGee to C. B. Moore, January 11, 1884]

Description: Letter from Dinkie McGee to her family in which she said that her family is well. She discussed the cold weather and snow that caused plants and animals to freeze. Willie caught some rabbits. She ended the letter by wishing that her family could be together. A note was added on January 12 saying that Jim had refused to haul manure, demanded "his money" and left for town to put a "levy" on the sheep when he was not paid. The envelope was addressed to C. B. Moore, Melissa, Texas.
Date: January 11, 1884
Creator: McGee, Dinkie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letters from Frank and Alice Griffin to the Moore family, September 24-26, 1894]

Description: These are letters from the Charles B. Moore Collection. The first two are written by Alice Griffin, who was Adelitia "Dinkie" McGee's daughter and niece and cousin to members of the Moore family. An additional letter is written by Frank M. Griffin, Alice's husband. In Alice's letter, she informs the Moore family of the goings-on in Gallatin, Tennessee and the news includes: an update on family members health, news about the weather, a discussion about Matilda Dodd, a dialogue about pickling an… more
Date: September 24, 1894
Creator: Griffin, Alice McGee & Griffin, Frank M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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