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Photo, Print, Drawing Various scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine

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Title

  • Various scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine

Names

  • Brassieur, C. Ray (Research team member)
  • Whitman, David A., 1950- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • St. John River Valley, Maine, July 10, 1991 - July 11, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- St. John River Valley

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images document a variety of scenes; 2, Set-back mailbox with reflector, strategies to mark the box's location when the deep winter snows pile up, and try to avoid snowplow damage; 3-4, Mobile home with added gambrel roof. This roof style is popular on a variety of buildings in the study area, sometimes for functional but often for purely decorative reasons; 5-7, Decorative eagles on a house in Fort Kent; these are found throughout the study area; 8-14, Wheeled dock, locally called a quay. on Eagle Lake, ME; the wheels enable the dock to be removed from the water before the winter freeze, thus averting ice damage. The small motor boat is a type of craft often used on area lakes; These images document a visit to the home of Jerry and Jean White in Frenchville, ME, to see a wooden strip canoe being built by Jerry and Mark Jalbert of St. Agatha, ME. Canoes are common in the study area, but most are mass-produced fiberglass or ABS types; 15-30, Various views of the canoe under construction; 31-end, Jalbert (cap) and White work on the canoe.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B034-4045
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-B034-4045

Source Collection

  • Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Various scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. St. John River Valley United States Maine, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine, - July 11, 1991. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b034_4045/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Various scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. St. John River Valley United States Maine, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine, - July 11, 1991. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b034_4045/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Various scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. St. John River Valley, Maine, - July 11, 1991. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b034_4045/>.