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Photo, Print, Drawing Moose at sawmill, Wallagrass, Maine; Various buildings and scenes, New Canada, Maine

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Title

  • Moose at sawmill, Wallagrass, Maine; Various buildings and scenes, New Canada, Maine

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Wallagrass, Maine; New Canada, Maine, July 14, 1991 - July 15, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- New Canada
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Wallagrass

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images document a variety of scenes; 1-2, Only confirmed moose sighting, at a sawmill in Wallagrass; 3, Sign on barn on potato farm in Soldier Pond; customized signs are found on most of the farms in the study area; 4-7, Potato fields in blossom, New Canada; 8, Garage with a type of facade normally associated with a commercial building, where the facade carries some type of message; many buildings in the study area which seem to be associated only with residential property have such facades; 9-10, See #4-7; 11-13, Close-up of potato blossoms; 14-15, See #8; particularly perplexing is the facade in #15, which faces away from the road; 16, Forest and grassland, New Canada; 17, Typical partially buried potato house; 18, Fieldworker David Whitman's truck is up to its axles in weeds; 19, Wildflowers, a variety of which contribute greatly to the scenic beauty of the area; 20, Abandoned agricultural equipment; the number of farms in the study area has greatly diminished in the last twenty years.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-C050
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-C050

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. Moose at sawmill, Wallagrass, Maine; Various buildings and scenes, New Canada, Maine. Aroostook County Maine New Canada United States Wallagrass, 1991. Wallagrass, Maine; New Canada, Maine, - July 15, 1991. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c050/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Moose at sawmill, Wallagrass, Maine; Various buildings and scenes, New Canada, Maine. Aroostook County Maine New Canada United States Wallagrass, 1991. Wallagrass, Maine; New Canada, Maine, - July 15, 1991. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c050/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Moose at sawmill, Wallagrass, Maine; Various buildings and scenes, New Canada, Maine. Wallagrass, Maine; New Canada, Maine, - July 15, 1991. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c050/>.