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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking the cows home]

Description: Joe did this as a boy, walking the cows' home with man's best friend, a dog. This is one of the memories Joe captured from his childhood. The patience of man with his animals. Beautiful country side with clouds and just your thoughts while doing your daily chores. This picture was taken in Cumberland Gap Tennessee.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys cleaning oil lamps]

Description: Photograph of of two boys accompanied by a small dog sitting at the steps of a front porch. The two young men are using a bowl of soapy water to clean out the glass chimney, or globe, of many oil lamps.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[School house]

Description: Photograph of a young boy, who is barefoot, and a young girl, who is not, walking up to the entrance of a brick school house where another young child awaits. The girl is carrying a small container while the boy has his books and supplies under his arm.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children in a corn crib]

Description: Photograph of three small children sitting in the edge of the door of a corn crib. There is a dog standing at the edge of the step ladder. In the background of the photograph there is a harvested field of corn and a mountain covered in trees.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys play in a barn]

Description: Photograph of two boys playing in the cane stalks at a stir-off. From Junebug Clark: Photograph of two young boys playing in the hay after a morning's work on the farm. Wrestling was a great sport in the lay in the barn. Kids in the 1940's looked for fun outdoors and did a lot of exploring.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Ruby Smith and her guitar]

Description: Photograph of a Ruby Smith seated in a dimly lit room playing guitar as she looks out the window. The walls of the room are plastered with newspaper and magazine clippings. From Junebug Clark: A young girl dreaming of the world around her with her guitar. A time of reflections, dreams and what was to be in the quiet of your room. Picture of a girl in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee reaching into her dreams.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kiss]

Description: Photograph of a young man kissing a young woman as four children and teens watch in wonderment. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Students eating lunch]

Description: Photograph of students sitting on rocks in a wooded area as they eat lunch from their lunch pails. There is a dog visible in the foreground of the image waiting for food.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Life's Highways]

Description: Narrative by Kay Clark. Joe Clark, HBSS, took this shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee of Roy McCrary on a fence in a field dreaming about his life in the hills of Tennessee. This picture is in Joe book published book "Back Home". Here is the poem in the book. I PLEDGE To loaf along Life’s highways To feel its shifting sands Climbs its hills, view its valleys And see its verdant Lands. To feast on bountiful harvests That grow along its way To watch the glowing sunsets That end… more
Date: 1939
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boys in the ole water hole]

Description: Photograph of a group of boys enjoying the summer in their favorite "Ole Water Hole". No need for bathing suits; bath and fun in one!. This was a favorite for children in the hills of Tennessee in the summer after a day of working in the fields and taking care of the animals. This is one of Joe Clark's favorite memories of his childhood.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hook in the Water]

Description: Photograph of a boy named Gene fishing in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee in the 1950's. He stands on a plank over the water, and he uses a sapling as a fishing pole.Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo is most often associated with may father's poem: If You Want To Catch Fish Get your hook in the water If you want to catch fish You must find a deep stream It’s useless to wish. Climb a high mountain If you want to see far There’s little sense moaning About what you are. Learn to see the sunshin… more
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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