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Photo, Print, Drawing Home of Frances Gendreau, Madawaska, Maine

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About this Item

Title

  • Home of Frances Gendreau, Madawaska, Maine

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Madawaska, Maine, July 27, 1991

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images document a visit to the home of Frances Gendreau in Madawaska, ME; 2-5, Raw croquiqnol dough on the kitchen counter; "croqs" are a traditional fried pastry; 6-7, Cooked croqs; 8-10, Field coordinator Ray Brassieur talks with Frances Gendreau, a schoolteacher and croq-maker extroidinaire; 11-12, Potato barrel canisters on Ms. Gendreau's refrigerator; 13-17, Julie Albert, Ms. Gendreau's mother and a writer on local history, talks about her work; 18-22, After a bit of instruction from Ms. Gendreau, Brassieur tries his hand at making croqs. He fails; 23-25, Ms. Gendreau shows one of her prize kitchen utensils, an old potato knife; 28-30, Stone tool, possibly very old, which Ms, Gendreau got from her Uncle Fred Albert. She believes he dug up a number of such artifacts while plowing his fields; 31-33, Silver snuff box from Fred Albert; 34-end, Small hand-carved wooden box

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B056
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-B056

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. Home of Frances Gendreau, Madawaska, Maine. Maine United States Madawaska Aroostook County, 1991. Madawaska, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b056/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Home of Frances Gendreau, Madawaska, Maine. Maine United States Madawaska Aroostook County, 1991. Madawaska, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b056/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Home of Frances Gendreau, Madawaska, Maine. Madawaska, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b056/>.