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Photo, Print, Drawing Various buildings and scenes and aerial photos, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine

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About this Item

Title

  • Various buildings and scenes and aerial photos, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine

Names

  • Bayley, Julie (Research team member)
  • Whitman, David A., 1950- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • St. John River Valley, Maine, July 24, 1991 - July 26, 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 buildings; 1-2, Former schoolhouse converted to a part-time residence, St. John, ME. See also MAP-DW-B054, #33-34; 3-4, St. John Catholic Church; there is no priest in residence here, but services are held weekly by a priest from another parish; 5, Presbytery for sale, St. John; 6-7, Former potato house, now home of Northern Maine Tree Farm, Fort Kent; 8-9, A fairly new Protestant church in western Fort Kent; there seems to have been an increase in the number of Protestant churches, especially fundamentalist churches; These images were photographed during an airplane flight over the study area. See ????? and subsequent logs for more information; 10-16, Farmland and forest in the St. John Valley; much of what is now forest was probably once agricultural land. The pattern of fields is suggestive of the original long lot land grants; 17-18, Blank frames; 19-20, Van Buren, ME; 21-22, Village Acadien, Van Buren; the buildings here are said to be arranged in the shape of the letter A; 23-24, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church and presbytery, Lille, ME; 25-26, Settlement along the St. John River in New Brunswick; 27-28, This photograph shows line settlement patterns on both the Maine (top) and New Brunswick sides of the river. 29-32 Acadian Cross Historic Shrine, St. David, ME A barn in Eagle Lake; 34-36, This barn is a typical partially buried potato house which, like many, is no longer in use. The sign in front of the barn proclaims "Welcome to Beautiful Eagle Lake."

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B055
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-B055

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:

Bayley, Julie, and David A Whitman. Various buildings and scenes and aerial photos, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. St. John River Valley United States Maine, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine, - July 26, 1991. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b055/.

APA citation style:

Bayley, J. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Various buildings and scenes and aerial photos, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. St. John River Valley United States Maine, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine, - July 26, 1991. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b055/.

MLA citation style:

Bayley, Julie, and David A Whitman. Various buildings and scenes and aerial photos, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine. St. John River Valley, Maine, - July 26, 1991. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b055/>.