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Photo, Print, Drawing Maison Daigle St. Jean, a piece-sur-piece en colombage Acadian cottage reconstructed on a museum site in Clair, New Brunswick (across the Saint John River from Fort Kent, Maine)

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Title

  • Maison Daigle St. Jean, a piece-sur-piece en colombage Acadian cottage reconstructed on a museum site in Clair, New Brunswick (across the Saint John River from Fort Kent, Maine)

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Clair, New Brunswick, June 26, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Folklore--New Brunswick
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  Canada -- New Brunswick -- Madawaska County -- Clair

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-6, views of the Maison Daigle, a fine Acadian house; behind it the museum staff have recreated a traditional granae Acadien (Acadian barn) from scratch; this is a public museum where visitors pay small admission charge and get guided tours; important collection of artifacts of all kinds are here; 7-8, views of the new / recreated Acadian barn (a three-bay frame barn); 9-11, views of interior of the house; niche for holding religious statues in #9; 12, attic of the house; 13-15, ship's knees (braces) in the attic / loft; 16-17, the niche in the kitchen / dining area on the first floor; 18-20, views of the kitchen / dining area; note the cutout wall section to allow for circulation of heat from the cast iron stove; 21-23, views of the columns in the front parlor; corner columns are boxed grooved columns (that within the walling receive the horizontal madriers that constitute the bearing walls of piece-sur-oiece; 24-25, views of the rear of the house and the new barn 2 6 "Societe Historique" sign on old farm equipment in front of the house; 29-32, views of exterior of Maison Daigle; note very ornate front entry with painted symbols and sidelight windows; 33-36, field team members Lisa Ornstein (l.) Ray Brassieur (c.) Dave Whitman (r.) at the Maison Daigle; 34-35, views of the framing inside the replica / recreated Acadian barn

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B005-61324
  • Field project identifier: MAP-HM-B005-61324

Source Collection

  • Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

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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, Lisa Ornstein, David A Whitman, and Howard W Marshall. Maison Daigle St. Jean, a piece-sur-piece en colombage Acadian cottage reconstructed on a museum site in Clair, New Brunswick across the Saint John River from Fort Kent, Maine. Canada New Brunswick Madawaska County Clair, 1991. Clair, New Brunswick. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b005_61324/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R., Ornstein, L., Whitman, D. A. & Marshall, H. W. (1991) Maison Daigle St. Jean, a piece-sur-piece en colombage Acadian cottage reconstructed on a museum site in Clair, New Brunswick across the Saint John River from Fort Kent, Maine. Canada New Brunswick Madawaska County Clair, 1991. Clair, New Brunswick. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b005_61324/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, et al. Maison Daigle St. Jean, a piece-sur-piece en colombage Acadian cottage reconstructed on a museum site in Clair, New Brunswick across the Saint John River from Fort Kent, Maine. Clair, New Brunswick. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b005_61324/>.