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Photo, Print, Drawing Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine; Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine

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Title

  • Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine; Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine

Names

  • Brassieur, C. Ray (Research team member)
  • Marshall, Howard W. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Van Buren, Maine, None 1991, 6

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-3, Ray Brassieur examines the remnants of madrier removed during remodelling of the Val Violette house; 4-5, views of the Val Violette house, rear; 6-13, views of architectural details, roof system, braces, etc. in attic of V. Violette house; 14-18, loom equipment / tools and historic loom in attic of V. Violette house; 19-23, Catholic nuns (and blood sisters) visiting in the Violette house while owners are away: Ludwina Deveau (rt.) and her sister, Sister Hermine Deveau (a Marist missionary) ; Brassieur talks with them in #21-23; 24-25, main building and gift shop at Acadian Village open-air museum, n. of Van Buren, US 1; 26-27, buildings there; 28-33, Parent-Roy log house of the earliest Acadian variety, much like houses of the British or Anglo-Americans except for the cornering details (#31) ; note the square-notching of the horizontal logs at the corners but with the vertical wooden pins to lock the corners in place (partially destroyed during museum relocation and reconstruction) ; note also that the logs are hewn with a broad axe square on all four sides and they fit flush horizontally (unlike Anglo-American log construction); note roof detail (eave treatment), a Quebec tradition; 34-36, interior

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B009-61313
  • Field project identifier: MAP-HM-B009-61313

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, and Howard W Marshall. Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine; Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine. Van Buren Maine Aroostook County United States, 1991. Van Buren, Maine, None , 6. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b009_61313/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Marshall, H. W. (1991) Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine; Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine. Van Buren Maine Aroostook County United States, 1991. Van Buren, Maine, None , 6. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b009_61313/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and Howard W Marshall. Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine; Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine. Van Buren, Maine, None , 6. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b009_61313/>.