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[Grinding Cane]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane is fed into a mule drawn press where the juice is extracted and collected. 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 Collect… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grinding Cane]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane is fed into a mule drawn press where the juice is extracted and collected. 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 Collect… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Square Dancers]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph is from the 1940s and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Square dancing with an unidentified woman is "Junebug" Wade Hampton Clark, Jr. My uncle Junebug and my father Joe often went out on photo shoots together.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kissing game]

Description: Photograph of a man in a hat hunched down as he kisses a young girl on the cheek. There is a semi circle of other young men and women standing as they play a kissing game at a sorghum molasses stir-off. There is a man in the background playing mandolin.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men preparing for the upcoming stir-off]

Description: Photograph of a group of men performing their individual tasks to prepare for an upcoming sorghum stir-off. The men in the foreground stretch cloth over the opening of a barrel to strain the sweet sorghum juice extracted from the press to their right. In the center of the photograph a man on a tractor is pulling a wagon full of sorghum cane. Two other men are visible walking along a path in the background of the photo.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children seated on laps]

Description: Photograph of two young children sitting on the laps of two adults. There is an older woman at eye level of one of the children while a girl in the background skims off impurities from the sorghum stir-off. 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

[Group singing]

Description: Photograph of a group of young men and woman standing in a semicircle singing together while four musicians are visible. Two men play guitar on the left of the photograph while a man plays mandolin and another plays fiddle on the right.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Couples dancing with band]

Description: Photograph of couples dancing together at a sorghum molasses stir-off. There is a group of musicians visible in the background of the photograph. There are four guitars and an upright bass.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Gathering at the stir off]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of townsfolk at a sorghum molasses stir-off. There are many people dancing, mingling, and playing music while other are seated on horses. 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
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