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Photo, Print, Drawing Fred Albert House, Madawaska, Maine

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About this Item

Title

  • Fred Albert House, Madawaska, Maine

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Madawaska, Maine, June 25, 1991

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-2, more views of ship's knees in second story sleeping loft; 3-5, roofing details; #3 shows rafter footing joining the hewn log plate; #4 shows joining (half lap) of rafter collar and rafter; 6, view of second story / loft / attic; 7, detail of horizontal plate and its meeting with the vertical grooved column from below (the column / en coulisse that receives on both sides the hewn madriers or members that constitute the pieces in pjece-sur-piece en colombacre construction); 8, detail of cutout portion of girt in the gable, to provide for installation of window; 9, detail of horizontal hewn members / madriers bearing walls in rear corner of house; exposed to view; 10-14, details of vertical flush board walling in same room; #13-14 show the ceiling joist and flooring of loft; 15-16, interior of front north parlor, showing one of the vertical columns that is the principal feature of this kind of construction; note the column has been left raw and the vertical flush board walling and the panelled ceiling has been painted; 17, view in same room, rearward; 18, detail cutaway view next to front door in hallway showing pencilled names; 19-20, Mr. Claude "Blackie" Cyr; 21, section of woven mat that was found in the house when it was moved; 22, Claude Cyr; 23, view in second story of plate receiving a vertical column from below; 24, Acadian festival mural in the attic; 25-27, fine Acadian chairs in the loft / attic; 28, Ray Brassieur and Dave Whitman (l.) look at their fieldnotes in the attic of the Fred Albert house; 29-30, potato basket in attic; 31-34, furniture in the house; #34 is an important peg leg bench used for working at the loom; 35-36, Ray Brassieur admires an old basket

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B003-61316
  • Field project identifier: MAP-HM-B003-61316

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, David A Whitman, and Howard W Marshall. Fred Albert House, Madawaska, Maine. Maine Aroostook County Madawaska United States, 1991. Madawaska, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b003_61316/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R., Whitman, D. A. & Marshall, H. W. (1991) Fred Albert House, Madawaska, Maine. Maine Aroostook County Madawaska United States, 1991. Madawaska, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b003_61316/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, David A Whitman, and Howard W Marshall. Fred Albert House, Madawaska, Maine. Madawaska, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b003_61316/>.