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[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
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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Skimming off impurities]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of children gathered around a large metal vat used to boil down sweet sorghum juice into sorghum molasses. The children use shortened pieces of sorghum cane to dip and taste. Two adults use homemade ladles to stir and skim impurities out of the cooking sorghum.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dollie Ellison stirring off impurities]

Description: Photograph of Dolly Ellison using a makeshift ladle to stir off and strain out impurities from the boiling sorghum juice as it is boiled down to sorghum molasses. Seven year old Douglas Clark stands by and watches while others are also visible in the background observing.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Tasting with sop sticks]

Description: Photograph of a group of children scraping the bottom and sides of a large metal vat used to boil sweet sorghum juice down to sorghum molasses. The children taste using shortened pieces of sorghum cane called sop sticks.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Large group gathers to taste molasses]

Description: Photograph of a crowd gathered around a large metal vat of sorghum molasses. The molasses is stirred and skimmed by Mable Evans on the left and Pearl Burns on the right. The crowd dips shortened pieces of sorghum cane called sop sticks in to get a taste of the freshly made molasses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Seated closely by the molasses]

Description: Photograph of a young couple sitting close together near a large metal vat of boiling sorghum juice. There is a crowd of people visible through a thick layer of steam as a man and woman use homemade ladles to skim off impurities.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Couple exchanging sop sticks]

Description: Photograph of a young couple offering each other their sop stick, used to dip into the boiling sorghum molasses and taste. The man and the women both are wearing rings on their ring fingers and the man has his tie tucked into his N&W Overalls.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dinner bell]

Description: Photograph of a dinner bell suspended atop a pole. The envelope containing the negative also has the word "moonshine" written on it.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society "contains a sample of the research that members of the Society were doing at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings." The volume covers "a wide variety of contemporary and historical topics," including baby lore, stories about notable women, stories about food and cooking, information about the Model T Ford, and more (inside front cover). The index begins on page 339.
Date: 2001
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press

[News Script: Food]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 14, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a tease for a story about students from Texas Christian University and hamburgers.
Date: September 7, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: "Hot" frozen meat]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a hijacked near truck being found in Brownsville, Texas with approximately 40 thousand dollars worth of meat.
Date: September 1, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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