Photo, Print, Drawing Aerial photographs, St. John River Valley, Maine

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Title

  • Aerial photographs, St. John River Valley, Maine

Names

  • Bayley, Julie (Research team member)
  • Whitman, David A., 1950- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • St. John River Valley, Maine, July 25, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- St. John River Valley

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images are aerial photographs of various parts of the study area. The flight began at the airport in Frenchville, ME, headed east to Van Buren, proceeded north and west along the St. John River to Fort Kent, then south to Soldier Pond, and finally east over St. Agatha and back to the Frenchville airport; 1-2, Farmland and forest in Fort Kent; the pattern of roads and fields is suggestive of long lot land division, and much of this forest was probably once in farms; 3-8, Soldier Pond, ME; the large track-side potato house in the center of #6-8 belong to grower Herman Deprey of New Canada, ME; 9-10, Farmland in New Canada; the long lot patterns are clearly seen; 11, Forest, farm, and village form a mosaic; precise location unknown; 12-13, A twin barn in eastern Fort Kent; 14, This photo shows the line settlement pattern; just visible in the center of the frame is the Corriveau buckwheat mill in Frenchville, ME. The mill is not operating; 15-20, Corriveau mill (with tall chimney)

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-C073
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-C073

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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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:

Bayley, Julie, and David A Whitman. Aerial photographs, St. John River Valley, Maine. Maine St. John River Valley United States, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c073/.

APA citation style:

Bayley, J. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Aerial photographs, St. John River Valley, Maine. Maine St. John River Valley United States, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c073/.

MLA citation style:

Bayley, Julie, and David A Whitman. Aerial photographs, St. John River Valley, Maine. St. John River Valley, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c073/>.