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

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About this Item

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 14, 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; 1, Inadvertent photo of chairs in Eagle Lake camp; 2-3, Twin barn on State Highway 161 in southeastern Fort Kent, ME; a number of such barns exist in the study area, most in better condition than this one; 4-5, Harvesting new potatoes along Highway 161 near Guerette, ME; we stopped when we saw a sign which advertised new potatoes for sale; 6-7, Sign advertising produce for sale; 8, Self service live bait; what a concept!!; These images document an event called Tintamarre, a kind of noisemaking competition held as part of the annual Grande Riviere Festival in Van Buren, ME, and St-Leonard, New Brunswick; 9-20, People gather in parking lots and on street corners in Van Buren, ME, before assembling to march to the international bridge between Van Buren and St-Leonard; on the bridge, groups from each town met to try to out-do the other in the volume of noise generated. Note the various kitchen implements which served as noisemakers; 21, overexposed photo; 22-26, The procession to the bridge; field coordinator Ray Brassieur can be seen with his tape recorder in #26; 27-34, Noisemakers on the bridge; the judges were on a truck parked in the middle of the bridge. The Canadians won; 35-36, A couple of VanrBuren residents enjoy the afternoon in their glider rocker.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B042-4028
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-B042-4028

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. Maine St. John River Valley United States, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b042_4028/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Various scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. Maine St. John River Valley United States, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b042_4028/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Various scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. St. John River Valley, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b042_4028/>.