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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

[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

[Hugh Vancel stirring molasses]

Description: Photograph of Reverend Hugh Vancel using a homemade ladle to stir impurities from the top of the boiling sorghum juice as it turns to molasses. There is a crowd gathered behind him observing. Joe Clark's brother, Junebug is seated wearing glasses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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

[Threshing crew dinner]

Description: Russell T. Forte has written on the envelope containing the negative that the photograph was used in March of 1962 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture photography division for the centennial photo exhibit. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from the 1940s and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Here in this shot, which is an outtake, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.
Date: 1940
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

[Telephone]

Description: Photograph of a telephone mounted on the wall next to a door and other various items in a general store. To the left of the telephone are various food and kitchen products. To the right of the telephone are horse bridles and leather belts.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Threshing crew]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photographs is from 1940 and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe used to point out that this photo was taken, "before women's lib." Here in this shot, neighbors have gathered to harvest wheat while the women folk prepared a Harvest Dinner for them during a break.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Telephone]

Description: Photograph of a telephone and other various items on the wall of a general store. To the left of the telephone are various food and kitchen products. To the right of the telephone are horse bridles and leather belts.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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