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Photo, Print, Drawing Maison Daigle St. Jean, Clair, New Brunswick; St. John River, potato houses, railroad, Fort Kent, Maine

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About this Item

Title

  • Maison Daigle St. Jean, Clair, New Brunswick; St. John River, potato houses, railroad, 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; Fort Kent, Maine, June 26, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Folklore--New Brunswick
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  Canada -- New Brunswick -- Madawaska County -- Clair
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Fort Kent

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: Continuation of Maison Daigle St. John; 1 Interior view of left front parlor; note boxed-in columns (this is a piece-sur-piece, en colombage house); 1848; 2, Maison Daigle St. Jean guide Ms. Nadine Caouette. Please send courtesy print to her, c/o the museum, Clair, NB; 3-4, the house with the new Acadian barn to its left and rear; this barn is a careful replica of the "grange Acadien" barn type that is representative of the early period of Acadian settlement and agricultural economy; 5, interior of second story of the house; note the ship's knee brace that is an important feature of these houses; 5-8, the grange Acadien here; #8 is Lisa Ornstein visiting with the museum builders/staff; 9-13, environs of the Maison Daigle museum; views working left to right of the St. John River and Ft. Kent, from shore of river adjacent to the Maison Daigle St. Jean site; 14-15, highway and sign for Maison Daigle museum, Clair, NB; 16, border customs check point, Canadian side; 17, view of St. John River form middle of the bridge between Clair, NB and Ft. Kent; note sign indicating international boundary; 18-20, potato houses and Bangor and Aroostook Railroad cars along Market Street in Ft. Kent, Me.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C002
  • Field project identifier: MAP-HM-C002

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, Lisa Ornstein, David A Whitman, and Howard W Marshall. Maison Daigle St. Jean, Clair, New Brunswick; St. John River, potato houses, railroad, Fort Kent, Maine. Canada Aroostook County Fort Kent Madawaska County Maine New Brunswick Clair United States, 1991. Clair, New Brunswick; Fort Kent, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c002/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R., Ornstein, L., Whitman, D. A. & Marshall, H. W. (1991) Maison Daigle St. Jean, Clair, New Brunswick; St. John River, potato houses, railroad, Fort Kent, Maine. Canada Aroostook County Fort Kent Madawaska County Maine New Brunswick Clair United States, 1991. Clair, New Brunswick; Fort Kent, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c002/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, et al. Maison Daigle St. Jean, Clair, New Brunswick; St. John River, potato houses, railroad, Fort Kent, Maine. Clair, New Brunswick; Fort Kent, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c002/>.