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[Women at an outdoor quilting bee]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The quilters gather at a neighbor's home for a Quilting Bee. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvesting Cane]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Young Folks of the Burns and Evans families cut cane. 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 Tex… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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

[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

[Photograph of Thomas Benton Starnes]

Description: Photograph of Thomas Benton Starnes at 1204 Dodds Avenue in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He sits cross-legged in the yard in front of a two story house. He wears a suit, tie, and a bowler hat, and there is a potted plant behind him. The house next to 1204 Dodds Avenue can be seen in the background.
Date: [1900..1940]
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of Starnes Family and Friends]

Description: Photograph of the Starnes family and friends. They are, in no order, Jesse -, Eliza Starnes, Lola Starnes, Ike Stubblefield, Kate -, Ross Starnes, Sallie Abbott, and Everitt -. The women wear white shirts and large bow in their hair, and the men wear suits and ties.
Date: 19uu
Creator: Staley Bros.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Law License Belonging to Thomas Middlebrook Willis]

Description: Photograph of a law license belonging to Thomas Middlebrook Willis. It reads: "Law School of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know Ye, That we, the Professors of the Law School of Cumberland University, having examined Thos. M. Willis, touching his knowledge of the Law, and being satisfied with his attainments; and further, having before us the proofs required by Statue, that he is a man of good moral character and twenty-one years o… more
Date: January 18, 1883
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Transcript of Letter to Charles B. Moore, August 1863]

Description: Transcript of letter to Charles B. Moore written during the Civil War. In the letter, the author discusses the lives of several family members and friends and how the war is affecting them. He also discusses his allegiance to the Union as well as the sides that many of his friends and family decided to take.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter to Charles B. Moore, August 1863]

Description: Letters to Charles B. Moore written during the Civil War. In the letter, the author discusses the lives of several family members and friends and how the war is affecting them. He also discusses his allegiance to the Union as well as the sides that many of his friends and family decided to take.
Date: 1863
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Main Street, Dyersburg, Tennessee]

Description: Photograph of an old street scene in Dyersburg, Tennessee with men standing in front of and hanging out of the windows of buildings. One of the named businesses James D. McClerkin's Drug Store. To the right of the drug store is Hall, Williams, & Co. Merchants, where Byrd Williams, Sr. would soon become the sole proprietor.
Date: [1874..1886]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nixon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of vice-chairman of the Senate Watergate Investigation Committee chided President for falling to remove public doubt about the president's role in the Watergate scandal.
Date: December 30, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bus Driver Killed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of sheriff deputies who are searching for the man who stabbed to death a Continental Trailways bus driver near New Boston.
Date: December 26, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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