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Photo, Print, Drawing Danny Tardiff and Raoul Tardiff at their sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine

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Title

  • Danny Tardiff and Raoul Tardiff at their sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine

Names

  • Whitman, David A., 1950- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Fort Kent, Maine, July 17, 1991 - July 18, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Fort Kent

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 2-3, Logs are loaded onto a train car on Market St. in Fort Kent, ME; These images document a visit to the sawmill in Fort Kent owned and operated by Danny Tardiff. Danny bought the sawmill from his father Raoul in 1990. Raoul still works with Danny at the mill; 4, Blank frame; 5-7, Raoul Tardiff checks the board to see what the afternoon's work entails; 8, Danny Tardiff examines a piece of mill equipment; 9-11, Raoul, Danny, and mill employee John Plourde position a log to be fed into the main saw; 12-14, A log moves through the large circular saw; 15-17, Danny sometimes uses a chain was to finish cutting off pieces not entirely sawn through on the first pass; 18, Preparing for the next pass through the saw; each log goes through a number of times as it gets squared off and planks are sawn from it; 19-23, Raoul operates the large saw; 24-26, John Plourde helps turn the log before the next pass; 27-31, Raoul runs the saw; 32, Danny removes the pieces sawn off by the main saw; 33, Raoul; 34-end, Danny takes the large planks sawn off by the circular saw to a smaller saw and cuts them into boards of different widths.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B050
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-B050

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:

Whitman, David A. Danny Tardiff and Raoul Tardiff at their sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine. Maine United States Fort Kent Aroostook County, 1991. Fort Kent, Maine, - July 18, 1991. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b050/.

APA citation style:

Whitman, D. A. (1991) Danny Tardiff and Raoul Tardiff at their sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine. Maine United States Fort Kent Aroostook County, 1991. Fort Kent, Maine, - July 18, 1991. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b050/.

MLA citation style:

Whitman, David A. Danny Tardiff and Raoul Tardiff at their sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine. Fort Kent, Maine, - July 18, 1991. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b050/>.