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Photo, Print, Drawing Potato houses and landscapes, St. Agatha, Maine

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Title

  • Potato houses and landscapes, St. Agatha, Maine

Names

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

Created / Published

  • St. Agatha, Maine, June 28, 1991

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: potato houses are an important feature in the postrailroad landscape of the late 19th and of the 2 0th centuries; important in the regional vernacular architecture of the St. John valley; 1-4, agricultural landscape in the "back settlements" or concessions, near St. Agatha community; arpent system of land division visible here as in other slides elsewhere; barn is a frame Acadian barn with gambrel roof; 5-20, the Herman Deprey potato house; the structure features a concrete fire wall; located adjacent to Bangor and Aroostook Railroad line; potatoes are brought here from the fields and stored until shipped via rail to the market; the potato house (a kind of twolevel barn) has thickly insulated walls and is very dark; it is partly built into the side of the hill to provide access for loading the potato house from the top down

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C015
  • Field project identifier: MAP-HM-C015

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, and Howard W Marshall. Potato houses and landscapes, St. Agatha, Maine. Aroostook County United States Maine St. Agatha, 1991. St. Agatha, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c015/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Marshall, H. W. (1991) Potato houses and landscapes, St. Agatha, Maine. Aroostook County United States Maine St. Agatha, 1991. St. Agatha, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c015/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and Howard W Marshall. Potato houses and landscapes, St. Agatha, Maine. St. Agatha, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c015/>.