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Photo, Print, Drawing Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine; Gilbert Perrault at his home, Wallagrass, Maine

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Title

  • Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine; Gilbert Perrault at his home, Wallagrass, Maine

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Van Buren, Maine; Wallagrass, Maine, June 15, 1991 - June 16, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Wallagrass
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Van Buren

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images document structures at the Village Acadien in Van Buren, ME; 1-2, Morneault house; small addition on the right side served as a post office at one point; 3, Back of Morneault house; 4-5, Ouellette house, also typical of nineteenth century construction; 6, Replica of nineteenth century log church, Notre Dame de 1 'Assumption; 7, Sirois house; this style, with the door in the gable end and a porch spanning the width of the house, seems less common than that of the Morneault and Ouellette houses; 8-9, Restored schoolhouse; 10, This small building was once a store and a barber shop; 11-12, Village Acadien; 13, Recently constructed museum/gallery; 14, Gift shop; 15-16, Field coordinator Ray Brassieur talks with Albert Michaud of Van Buren, who makes wooden birdhouses modelled after lighthouses; Michaud sells the birdhouses in the parking lot of the Village Acadien; These images document a visit to Roland Perrault at his home in Wallagrass, ME; 17-19, Restored tractor (vintage unknown) belonging to Perrault; 20, Brassieur talks to Perrault

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-C009
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-C009

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. Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine; Gilbert Perrault at his home, Wallagrass, Maine. Maine Wallagrass United States Aroostook County Van Buren, 1991. Van Buren, Maine; Wallagrass, Maine, - June 16, 1991. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c009/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine; Gilbert Perrault at his home, Wallagrass, Maine. Maine Wallagrass United States Aroostook County Van Buren, 1991. Van Buren, Maine; Wallagrass, Maine, - June 16, 1991. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c009/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine; Gilbert Perrault at his home, Wallagrass, Maine. Van Buren, Maine; Wallagrass, Maine, - June 16, 1991. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c009/>.