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[Watching her stir]

Description: Photograph of a young boy watching intently as an older woman uses a makeshift ladle to stir and skim impurities from the boiling sorghum juice. In the background there is another large vat of sorghum molasses being boiled with people around it. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Couple by the molasses]

Description: Photograph of a young man with his arm around a young woman in the foreground. In the background Dollie Ellison and an unknown man use large makeshift ladles to stir and sift impurities from the boiling sorghum juice. There are many others gathered around as steam billows from the vat. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Child sleeping in lap]

Description: Photograph of a young girl asleep in a woman's lap. In the background of the photograph a man uses a ladle to strain impurities from the boiling sweet sorghum juice as it's turned into molasses.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dollie Ellison stirs the molasses]

Description: Photograph of Dollie Ellison using a makeshift ladle/ strainer to skim off impurities from the boiling sweet sorghum juice as it boils down to molasses. Two young boys watch closely while more people are gathered around another large metal vat in the background.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Tasting the molasses]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark's brother, Junebug, as well as others tasting the freshly made sorghum molasses. The group uses shortened sorghum stalks to dip into the metal vat. On the right side of the photograph, Reverend Hugh Vancel and a young man use a piece of cloth to strain out impurities as they transfer the sorghum molasses into five gallon lard buckets for storage.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dollie Ellison stirring]

Description: Photograph of Dollie Ellison using a makeshift ladle/ strainer to skim off impurities from the boiling sweet sorghum juice as it boils down to molasses. Two other women stand nearby to help. There is a young girl visible seated in the background.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Whittling sop sticks]

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

[Straining out impurities into a pale]

Description: Photograph of two men twisting a piece of fabric used to strain out impurities from the freshly made sorghum molasses. The men are in the process of transferring the molasses from a large metal vat into a five gallon lard bucket for storage. A woman is kneeling on the ground next to the men with a small sauce pan used as a ladle in her hand.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Skimming off impurities]

Description: Photograph of a man and woman using large makeshift ladles to skim impurities off of sweet sorghum juice being boiled down into molasses. The liquid is being heated in a large metal vat. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Crowd gathered around the vat]

Description: Photograph of a crowd gathered around the large metal vat containing the sorghum molasses as Dollie Ellison uses a makeshift ladle to stir and strain impurities from the liquid. Steam billows from the boiling liquid. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Tasting]

Description: Photograph of Joe Clark's brother, Junebug, and others gathered around a large metal vat that was used to boil down sweet sorghum juice to a molasses. They dip make shift sop sticks to taste the molasses. A man wearing a hat kneels as he ladles molasses into a cloth to strain it as it goes into storage pails. Others watch and smile. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Skimming impurities]

Description: Photograph of an older man leaning over as he uses a ladle with holes punched in it to sift out impurities of the sweet sorghum juice as it's boiled down. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Making sop sticks]

Description: Photograph of a young man and young woman seated on a pile of sorghum cane. The man uses a knife to carve the end of the cane into a spoon shape to use to taste the sorghum molasses. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Straining molasses]

Description: Photograph of a group of children gathered around a vat of sorghum molasses waiting to taste it with their sop sticks as a man ladles it into a cloth for straining. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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