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Photo, Print, Drawing Don Cyr and the Violette log house (dismantled), Lille, Maine; Various scenes and vernacular barns, St. Agatha, Maine

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Title

  • Don Cyr and the Violette log house (dismantled), Lille, Maine; Various scenes and vernacular barns, St. Agatha, Maine

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Lille, Maine; St. Agatha, Maine, June 28, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- St. Agatha
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Lille

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-2, Don Cyr and some of the stored parts of the Violette log house (dismantled), a National Register site; 3-4, the area continued; Acadian barn to the right; 5-6, Ray Brassieur (l.) visits with owner Don Cyr about his plans to reconstruct the Violette log house; 6-7, ship's knees from the loft of the Violette log house, stored under tarps; 8-10, flooring stored, V. house; 11-12, more parts from the house; 13-14, Acadian festival mural painted by Don Cyr; 15-16, cultural landscape behind (west of) the church and barn; 17-20, the Danny Labrie frame twin barn, St. Agatha community (2 1/2 mi. south of Frenchville), on a prosperous family potato farm. A twin barn is essentially a pair of Acadian type barns placed one behind the other with the interstice framed in with a transverse roof; note that the exterior walls are shingled; interior views suggest the framing (documented in Marshall fieldnotes); #18 features a new sheet metal equipment shed built like World War Two vintage "quonset hut" buildings; 21-36, interior of the Labrie twin barn

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B014-61315
  • Field project identifier: MAP-HM-B014-61315

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. Don Cyr and the Violette log house dismantled, Lille, Maine; Various scenes and vernacular barns, St. Agatha, Maine. Lille St. Agatha Maine United States Aroostook County, 1991. Lille, Maine; St. Agatha, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b014_61315/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Marshall, H. W. (1991) Don Cyr and the Violette log house dismantled, Lille, Maine; Various scenes and vernacular barns, St. Agatha, Maine. Lille St. Agatha Maine United States Aroostook County, 1991. Lille, Maine; St. Agatha, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b014_61315/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and Howard W Marshall. Don Cyr and the Violette log house dismantled, Lille, Maine; Various scenes and vernacular barns, St. Agatha, Maine. Lille, Maine; St. Agatha, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_b014_61315/>.