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Series 3: Graphic materials (continued)
Black-and-white negatives (continued)
July 4th weekend celebration sponsored by Eagle Lake Parish, Eagle Lake, Maine; Meeting of American Folklife Center Maine Acadian Survey team, Lille, Eagle Lake, Maine, July 07, 1991 - July 08, 1991 (continued)
These images document a two-day festival held in Eagle Lake, ME. The event was a benefit for the Eagle Lake Parish; 2-3, Large tents were set up to house food service, souvenir sales, and raffles; 4, Game tables; 5-6, Tents housing various festival activities; 7-8, Field coordinator Ray Brassieur buys some souvenirs; 10, Souvenir sales tent; 11-13, This family recipe cookbook was available for purchase; 14, Ticket sales for Sunday evening barbecue; 15, Brassieur's a sucker for memorabilia; 16-18, Raffle and souvenir sales tent; 19, Various home-made food was available; 21-23, Snack/sandwich tent; 24-25, Brassieur meets Beth Albert, who operated a small concession stand selling fried dough and chicken stew; 26, Looking over the selection of baked goods; 27-28, Beth Albert's concession stand; These images document an evening meeting at the Eagle Lake camp occupied by fieldworkers Ray Brassieur and David Whitman. The meeting was a planning and review session attended by fieldworkers Brassieur, Whitman, and Lisa Ornstein, and American Folklife Center staff members Alan Jabbour (Director), David Taylor (folklife specialist and Maine Acadian Project Supervisor), and Camilla Bryce-LaPorte (research specialist); 29, Left to right: Brassieur, Jabbour, Taylor, Ornstein; 30, left to right: Brassieur, Bryce-LaPorte, Taylor, Ornstein; 31, Bryce-LaPorte and Jabbour draw dishwashing detail; 32-end, Project team members discuss various aspects of the research and report.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B033-4032 Various buildings and scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine, July 09, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b033_4032
27 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes; 1, Rectangular clothesline; this is a common type in the area; 2-3, House of decorative butterfly maker, State Highway 11, Wallagrass, ME. These decorative butterflies were displayed on the exterior of many houses in the study area; most appear to be made from scrap wood and handpainted a variety of colors; 4-5, Magic Shears Salon in Wallagrass; many residents have opened businesses in their houses, and beauty salons are one of the most often seen types; 6, Logging truck at a house in Wallagrass; independent trucking seems to be an important economic activity in the area; 7, Wooden "running potato" lawn decoration; potatoes are the primary crop in the study area, and these lawn decorations are fairly common; 8-9, Rectangular clothesline; 10-11, Forest and farmland, Wallagrass; a great deal of land in the area has gone out of agricultural production and is returning to forest; 13-15, Abandoned and decaying house in an area called the "back settlements." This house is of twentieth century construction judging by the materials, but it had birch bark insulation; 16-20, Wheeled dock called a quay on the western side of Eagle Lake. The wheels enable the dock to be removed from the water before the winter freeze, thus averting ice damage. Such docks are found on every lake in the study area; this one is longer than most, and has four wheels instead of the usual two. It seems to be in need of repair; 21-23, Another quay near Eagle Lake; the fenders are a most unusual feature; 24-25, Home and studio of Fort Kent sculptor and painter George Roy; the small statue of a logger near the door was made by Roy using a chainsaw; 26-27, The Forever Young Club, Madawaska, ME; a group of senior citizens holds a Saturday night dance here.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B034-4045 Various scenes, Upper St. John River area, Maine, July 10, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b034_4045
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of scenes; 2, Set-back mailbox with reflector, strategies to mark the box's location when the deep winter snows pile up, and try to avoid snowplow damage; 3-4, Mobile home with added gambrel roof. This roof style is popular on a variety of buildings in the study area, sometimes for functional but often for purely decorative reasons; 5-7, Decorative eagles on a house in Fort Kent; these are found throughout the study area; 8-14, Wheeled dock, locally called a quay. on Eagle Lake, ME; the wheels enable the dock to be removed from the water before the winter freeze, thus averting ice damage. The small motor boat is a type of craft often used on area lakes; These images document a visit to the home of Jerry and Jean White in Frenchville, ME, to see a wooden strip canoe being built by Jerry and Mark Jalbert of St. Agatha, ME. Canoes are common in the study area, but most are mass-produced fiberglass or ABS types; 15-30, Various views of the canoe under construction; 31-end, Jalbert (cap) and White work on the canoe.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B035-4030 Strip canoe. Frenchville, Maine; Various scenes, Frenchville, Maine, July 11, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b035_4030
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document the building of a strip canoe at the home of Jerry and Jean White in Frenchville, ME. See MAP-DW-B034 for more information; 2-6, Close-ups of canoe's construction; 7-10, Field coordinator Ray Brassieur talks with Mark Jalbert about the canoe; 11-14, Close-ups of the bow of the canoe; 15-18, The Whites' cat Amos does some field research in the trunk of Brassieur's car; 19-20, A neighbor of the Whites works his fields on a tractor; 21-22, These buildings were once large storage facilities called potato, houses; they are generally found by railroad tracks, as their function was to store the produce prior to shipping by rail. Most, although not all, of them are no longer used for their original purpose. Some stand empty; this one, on Market St. in Fort Kent, has been converted to commercial/retail space; 23-24, Monique's Hair Salon, Fort Kent; area residents often operate small business endeavors from their homes; salons are quite common in this arrangement; 25-27, Shrine in a yard in Fort Kent; such shrines are a common sight in the study area; 28-30, Eagles used as house decorations are seen throughout the area; 31-32, Mailboxes are often set back from the road to avoid being buried by snow or damaged by snowplows; 33-36, Rectangular clothesline, a common type in the area; 37, One of the more decorative approaches to mailbox support.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B036-4047 Various buildings and scenes, Fort Kent, Maine, July 12, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b036_4047
35 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of scenes in Fort Kent, ME; 2-3, Mailboxes are often set back from the road to help avoid snow and snowplow damage; 4-6, Potato grower Alberie Pelletier on his tractor, spraying one of his potato fields. Mr. Pelletier, like many growers, has several non-contiguous areas which he farms; 7-10, Farmland in eastern part of Fort Kent; 12, Sign on a telephone pole in Fort Kent; 13, Small herds of livestock are occasionally found on area farms; 14-17, More mailboxes; 18-21, Rectangular clothesline, a common type in the area; 22-25, Houses with lateral additions, State Highway 11, Fort Kent; this is one of the most common addition types in the study area. The broken rooflines and incised porches of these houses, while often associated with French architecture in North America, are not usually found on houses in this area; 26-31, Replica of Eiffel Tower in a yard in Fort Kent; 32-33, House with lateral addition; 34-35, Small shed with gambrel (colm-casse) roof; this roof style is found on a side variety of buildings throughout the study area; 36A, farmstead along Highway 11.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B037-4027 Various buildings and scenes, Wallagrass, Maine, July 13, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b037_4027
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes in Wallagrass, ME; 2-3, Magic Shears Beauty Salon; area residents often operate business out of their homes, and salons are perhaps the most frequently found type; 4-5, Wheeled dock, locally called a quay. near Eagle Lake. Such docks are found throughout the study area; the wheels enable them to be pulled from the water before the winter freeze, thus averting ice damage; 6-7, Another quay, in Eagle Lake; 8-9, Butterflies, most of which seem to be hand-made and painted, are a common decorative feature on houses; 10-11, I & R Garage, Inc., Wallagrass; another example of business/residence combination; 12, A birdhouse made in the shape of the Fort Kent Blockhouse; 13-14, House with lateral addition, a style frequently found in the study area; 15-16, Decorative eagles are found on houses throughout the area; 17-18, Abandoned barn with collapsing roof; as agriculture declines in importance, more farm buildings are being abandoned. Some simply stand and decay, but a great many are torn down; 19-22, More decorative butterflies; 23-24, Decorative eagle; 25-26, Saucier's Store, State Highway 11, Wallagrass; small convenience/grocery stores are a frequently seen residence/business combination; 27-28, Mailbox set back from the road; this helps avoid damage by snow and snowplow; 29-30, Rectangularly-shaped clotheslines are a common type; 31-36, Abandoned farm buildings, including an old windmill (#33- 34), Highway 11, Wallagrass.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B038-4023 Various buildings and scenes, Fort Kent, Maine, July 10, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b038_4023
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes in Fort Kent, ME; 2-3, Knights of Columbus hall; 4-7, Shed with gambrel roof, locally called colm-casse; this roof style is seen on a wide variety of buildings throughout the study area; 8-12, An assortment of gambrel-roofed buildings; 13-17, A house with decorative eagles; the wrought-iron eagle next to the top of the door is a type seen on a large number of houses and other buildings; the stenciled eagle on the door is an unusual style; 18, Semi-trailer with Ten Commandments painted on the side; 19-20, Another decorative wrought-iron eagle; 21-22, Mailbox set back from road to avoid damage from snow and snowplow; 23-25, Wrought iron eagle on a carport; 26-27, Hay fields in New Brunswick as seen from just south of U.S. Highway 1 in eastern Fort Kent; 28-29, House with a small section of gambrel roof; here, as in #8-10 above, the effect is decorative rather than functional; 30-33, A small structure of the type often located behind or next to houses and used for firewood storage; 34-35, Firewood storage structure; 36, Wildflowers along the road (wildflowers?? in black and white?? oops.); 37, Set back mailbox.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B039-4043 Dance at Forever Young Club, Madawaska, Maine, July 13, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b039_4043
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a Saturday night dance at the Forever Young Club in Madawaska, ME. This dance is apparently part of a circuit of such dances held at various locations in the upper St. John river valley, in both the Maine and New Brunswick. The music for this dance was provided by a father/son team, ??????? (fiddle and guitar); there was also synthesized percussion. The most popular dance was a mixer called "Lady of the Lake," which was danced several times during the evening to a variety of reel/hornpipe tunes. Some of the dances, including the "Lady of the Lake," were called; there were also couples dances that were not called. There were tables set up on both sides of the dance floor, and people would sit at these tables and socialize between dances; 2-14, A series of photographs taken during one of the early dances; 15-16, Field coordinator Ray Brassieur talks with the musicians; 17, Crucifix with rameau (blessed palm) and "Liquer forbidden" sign behind bandstand; 18-19, Folks socialize between dances; 20-21, The musicians; Cyrice Therrien, violin, Maurice Therrien, guitar; 22-end, Another dance; I believe this is a "Lady of the Lake."
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B040-4035 Dance at Forever Young Club, Madawaska, Maine, July 13, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b040_4035
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a dance at the Forever Young Club in Madawaska, ME. See MAP-DW-B039 for more information; 1-2, Dancers; 3-4, Club president Gerard Lagasse checks up on the band; 5-6, Left to right: fiddler Cyrice Therrien, guitarist Maurice Therrien (son of Cyrice) , caller Reno Guerette; 7-end, A series of photographs taken during the course of a single dance.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B041-4033 Dance at Forever Young Club, Madawaska, Maine, July 13, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b041_4033
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a dance at the Forever Young Club in Madawaska, ME. See MAP-DW-B039 for more information; 1-10, Dancers; 11-15, Musicians Cyrice Therrien, fiddle, and Maurice Therrien, guitar, with caller Reno Guerrette; 16-22, A dance which had a good deal of line dancing in it; 23, ??? Sirois talks to field coordinator Ray Brassieur (hidden behind wall); 24-26, Crucifix with rameau (blessed palm) on wall behind bandstand; 27-30, Sirois gives Brassieur hints on befriending the women at the dance; 31-32, Club president Gerard Lagasse makes some announcements; 33, Musicians and caller; 34, Dancers; 35, Some dance, some watch and talk; 36-36a, Dancers; notice that in this photo, as in several others, women often dance together as a couple.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B042-4028 Various scenes, Upper St. John River area, Maine, July 14, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b042_4028
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of scenes; 1, Inadvertent photo of chairs in Eagle Lake camp; 2-3, Twin barn on State Highway 161 in southeastern Fort Kent, ME; a number of such barns exist in the study area, most in better condition than this one; 4-5, Harvesting new potatoes along Highway 161 near Guerette, ME; we stopped when we saw a sign which advertised new potatoes for sale; 6-7, Sign advertising produce for sale; 8, Self service live bait; what a concept!!; These images document an event called Tintamarre, a kind of noisemaking competition held as part of the annual Grande Riviere Festival in Van Buren, ME, and St-Leonard, New Brunswick; 9-20, People gather in parking lots and on street corners in Van Buren, ME, before assembling to march to the international bridge between Van Buren and St-Leonard; on the bridge, groups from each town met to try to out-do the other in the volume of noise generated. Note the various kitchen implements which served as noisemakers; 21, overexposed photo; 22-26, The procession to the bridge; field coordinator Ray Brassieur can be seen with his tape recorder in #26; 27-34, Noisemakers on the bridge; the judges were on a truck parked in the middle of the bridge. The Canadians won; 35-36, A couple of VanrBuren residents enjoy the afternoon in their glider rocker.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B043-4029 Farrell-Michaud house, Van Buren, Maine; Variety of buildings and scenes, New Canada, Maine, and Fort Kent, Maine, July 13, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b043_4029
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes; 2-6, The Farrell-Michaud House, an early twentieth century house in Van Buren, ME, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is currently operated as a bed-and-breakfast; 8-9, Custom painted sign on a farm in New Canada; most farms in the study area have such signs; 10-14, Buildings with facades, New Canada, ME. This type of facade is often associated with commercial buildings, but many garages and other buildings on residential property have these facades; 15-16, A typical partially buried potato house in New Canada; the earth provides insulation for the produce; 17, Fieldworker David Whitman's truck is up to the axles in weeds; 18-19, Abandoned agricultural equipment, not an uncommon sight; 20, Mailbox set back (way back) from the road; this helps prevent damage from snow and snowplow; 21, Abandoned and collapsing potato house; 22-23, A man tins the roof on a farm building in New Canada. Tin was once a common roofing material but is used less today; 24, Scooter Helper, a repair business on State Highway 161 in Fort Kent, ME; many area residents operate small businesses from their homes; 25-26, Another garage with facade; 27-28, Rectangular clothesline, a common type in the area; 29, Shed with gambrel roof, locally called colm-casse; this roof style is used on a wide variety of buildings throughout the study area; 30-31, Trucks parked on a farm in Fort Kent; trucking is an important economic activity in the region, and many farmers are also shippers; 32-33, An independent trucker in Fort Kent; 34, A collection of farm buildings in Fort Kent; 35-36, Sign on a barn on the Daigle Bros, farm in Fort Kent; note the inclusion of shipping and trucking; 36a, Another garage with a facade in Fort Kent.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B044-4031 Grande Riviere Festival, Native American Day, Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine, July 15, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b044_4031
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-2, Sign on a barn south of Van Bur en on U.S. Highway 1; quite a few of the farmers in the study area combine trucking/shipping with farming; These images document an event called Native American Day, held at the Village Acadien in Van Buren, ME, as part of the annual Grande Riviere Festival; 3-4, A group of participants, most of whom are Mic-Mac from various reserves in New Brunswick, rehearse a song before the event. Event coordinator Guy Frigon (black hat) of Frenchville, ME, is one of the singer/drummers; 5-7, Participants rehearse in front of a tipi set up especially for this event; 10-11, This object hung over the door of the tipi; I collected no information about it; 12-14, Headdress hanging on a fence post; Frigon said that this is not a true Mic-Mac style, but more of a western or plains Indian style. They use this headdress for events like this because it represents what "white folks" expect to see; 15-16, Two of the participants talk with a spectator; 17-22, Guy Frigon and Kenny Cloud of the Red Bank Reserve in New Brunswick perform a ceremony in which the drum is blessed with tobacco; 23, A sweetgrass braid is lit; the smoldering braid will be used to purify both participants and spectators; 24-26, Participants are purified with smoke from the braid, fanned with feathers; 27, Birdhouse maker Albert Michaud watches the ceremony; 28-29, Participants sing and drum while Cloud circulates through the crowd with the sweetgrass braid; 30-32, Cloud purifies spectators; 33-34, Small wooden canoe carved by Kenny Cloud; 35-36, Frigon describes pipe ceremony.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B045-4026 Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine, July 15, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b045_4026
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document an event called Native American Day, held at the Village Acadien in Van Buren, ME, as part of the annual Grande Riviere Festival; 2-8, Pipe ceremony; event coordinator Guy Frigon (center, light-colored shirt) of Frenchville, ME, explains the ceremony to the spectators; 9-10, Singing and drumming begins for the first dance; 11-14, The dance begins; 15-22, The dance continues; spectators are asked to join the dance; 23-25, A second dance, similar to the first; Frigon said both dances were "circle dance"; 26-27, Handcarved wooden canoe containing the sweetgrass braid use in purification ritual (see MAP-DW-B044); 28-29, Frigon and another Mic-Mac, name unknown, demonstrate different drumming rhythms; 30-35, Visitors from the town of Ste-Ouenne, France, attended the event; here, the mayor of Ste-Ouenne tries on a headdress; 36-end, Field coordinator Ray Brassieur talks with one of event participants.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B046-4021 Various buildings and scenes, Van Buren, Maine, July 15, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b046_4021
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes; 1-5, St. Remi Catholic Church, village of Keegan, town of Van Buren, ME; the St. Remi parish was combined with the St. Bruno parish during the summer of 1991, and no services are currently held here; 6-7, Shrine in a yard in Keegan; these shrines are a common sight in the area; 8, Mike's Motors, Keegan; the facade on this garage is usually associated with commercial enterprises such as this, but many residential buildings in the study area also have facades; 9-11, Judy's Beauty Salon, Keegan; many area residents operate small businesses from their residences, and salons are especially common; 12-13, Wrought-iron roadside cross, a croix de chemin. Keegan; this one commemorates the site of an early Catholic church; 14-16, A house with a variety of lawn decorations, including a shrine; 17-18, Al's Neighborhood Store, Keegan; another commercial building with a facade, and another type of business/residence combination often found in the area; 19-20, Shed under construction in Van Buren; the gambrel style roof, locally called colm-casse, is found on a wide variety of buildings; 21, Partially-buried potato house, Hamlin, ME. The use of insulating earth-contact construction is an old and widespread technique; here it is used with a corrugated steel building of relatively recent vintage; 22-23, Spraying potato fields, Hamlin; area growers describe potato farming as input-intensive; 24, Trucks on a farm in Hamlin; many area farmers also do some type of trucking; 25, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Hamlin; 26, A small barn in Hamlin; 27, Buildings with facades on residential property in Hamlin; 28, Health care facility, Van Buren; a part of this facility is called L'Acadie; 29-30, Sign advertising buckwheat flour for sale in Van Buren; buckwheat flour is used to make ploves. a traditional Acadian food. No one was home, and I was unable to determine if the flour is actually sold here; 31, "Parking to see Indians" sign in a vacant lot across the road from the Village Acadien, where Native American Day had been held on the previous day; 32-33, An abandoned potato house by the railroad tracks in Van Buren; many of these warehouses, in which the produce was stored prior to shipment, are standing but no longer in use; 34, Sign at the Village Acadien in Van Buren; 35-36, A roadside cross, or croix de chemin. near the Village Acadien.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B047-4025 Various buildings and scenes, Van Buren, Maine, and Grand Isle, Maine, July 16, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b047_4025
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes; 2-3, Sign on a barn on the farm of Bert Sirois in Keegan village, town of Van Buren, ME; these custom-painted signs are found on most farms in the area; 4-5, A large L-shaped house in Keegan; this configuration, or variations of it, are a type found throughout the study area. Several presbyteries (e.g. Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Lille, ME) are built in this style; 6-7, House with lateral addition, Keegan; this is one of the most frequently found addition types; 8-10, Ste-Anne-de-Madawaska Catholic Church in New Brunswick, photographed from U.S. Highway 1; 11-12, Barn with double gambrel roof, Grand Isle, ME; this roof style, locally called colm-casse, is found on a variety of buildings, but this configuration is unusual; 13-14, House with lateral addition, Grand Isle; 15-16, A large L-shaped house in Grand Isle; 17-18, The Gun Hospital, Grand Isle; area residents operate a variety of businesses from their homes; 19-20, House with lateral addition, Grand Isle; 21-22, Catholic church in Grand Isle; 23-24, House with lateral addition, Grand Isle; 25-26, Shrine in a yard in Grand Isle; these shrines are found throughout the study area; 27-28, Shed with gambrel (colm-casse) roof, Grand Isle; 29-30, Large L-shaped house, Grand Isle; 31-32, House with lateral addition, Madawaska, ME; 33-34, Variation on L-shaped house configuration, Madawaska; this example has a gabled roof instead of the more commonly seen hipped roof; 35-36, Large L-shaped houses in Madawaska.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B048-4024 Various buildings and scenes, Upper St. John River Valley area, Maine, July 16, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b048_4024
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes; 1-2, Two small garages with facades in St. David village; such facades are usually associated with commercial properties, but in the study area a large number of structures on residential property have this feature; 3-4, Fred Albert house in St. David, a mid-nineteenth century house which has been moved to its present location on property owned by the Madawaska Historical Society and restored; 5, St. David Catholic Church; 6-7, This large elm tree was used by former railroad conductor Bob Labonte to mark the approach to Madawaska; 8-9, Looking across the bottomland of the St. John River valley in St. David, the Centre universitaire St-Louis-Maillet in Edmunston, New Brunswick, is visible in the distance; 10-11, Religious statuary, popular lawn ornaments in the study area, are sold at Bob's Neighborhood Store in Madawaska; 12-14, St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Madawaska; 15-16, Street sign at the corner of 5th and Evangeline Streets in Madawaska; Evangeline is the title heroine of Longfellow's poem about the Acadians; 17-19, Evangeline School in Madawaska; 20-21, Acadia School, Madawaska; 22-23, Sign in French bn a gas station in Madawaska; although nearly every adult in the study area speaks French, business signs in. French are not common in Maine; 24-25, Frenchville Starch Factory, Frenchville, ME, closed a few years ago; there is also an abandoned starch factory in Fort Kent, ME; 26-27, Sign on L. Dumais and Sons farm, Frenchville, ME; the picture of the truck and use of the term shipper typical, as many farmers are involved with trucking as well. Note the semi-trailer parked in front of the barn; 28, Trucks belonging to C. L. Roy and Sons, Frenchville; trucking by both farmers and independent operators is an important economic activity; 29-30, Sign on a barn on the farm of Edwin Pelletier and Sons, Frenchville, ME; 31-32, Parked across the street from the Pelletier barn is one of their trucks; 33-34, Classic Casuals, a clothing store in a home in Frenchville; many area residents operate small businesses at their homes; 35-36, St. Luce Catholic Church, Frenchville.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B049 Various buildings and scenes; Ray Blair, independent logger, Fort Kent, Maine, July 17, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b049
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a variety of buildings and scenes; 2-7, Some of the buildings on Main St. in downtown Fort Kent, ME; Note: 8-13 were printed with the negative strip reversed; 8-9, Main St., downtown Fort Kent; 10-11, Rock's Motel on Main St.; 12-15, Sign marking the northern terminus of U.S. Highway 1; 16-17, Smart's Beauty Shop on Main St.; the number of beauty shops/salons in the study area seems large in proportion to the population; 18-24, Independent logger Ray Blair of Eagle Lake stacks logs he has cut from property on which he has purchased the timber-rights. Large-scale commercial logging has declined in importance in this part of the state, but a number of independent loggers still operate; 29-end, Logs are loaded onto a train car on Market St., in Fort Kent.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B050 Danny Tardiff and Raoul Tardiff at their sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine, July 17, 1991 - July 18, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b050
35 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
2-3, Logs are loaded onto a train car on Market St. in Fort Kent, ME; These images document a visit to the sawmill in Fort Kent owned and operated by Danny Tardiff. Danny bought the sawmill from his father Raoul in 1990. Raoul still works with Danny at the mill; 4, Blank frame; 5-7, Raoul Tardiff checks the board to see what the afternoon's work entails; 8, Danny Tardiff examines a piece of mill equipment; 9-11, Raoul, Danny, and mill employee John Plourde position a log to be fed into the main saw; 12-14, A log moves through the large circular saw; 15-17, Danny sometimes uses a chain was to finish cutting off pieces not entirely sawn through on the first pass; 18, Preparing for the next pass through the saw; each log goes through a number of times as it gets squared off and planks are sawn from it; 19-23, Raoul operates the large saw; 24-26, John Plourde helps turn the log before the next pass; 27-31, Raoul runs the saw; 32, Danny removes the pieces sawn off by the main saw; 33, Raoul; 34-end, Danny takes the large planks sawn off by the circular saw to a smaller saw and cuts them into boards of different widths.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B051 Tardiff sawmill, Fort Kent, Maine; Brown's musical instruments, Wallagrass, Maine; Maps at Registry of Deeds, Fort Kent, Maine, July 18, 1991 - July 19, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b051
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document Tardiff sawmill in Fort Kent, ME; see MAP-DWB050 for more information; 2-3, Exterior view of the mill; 4-7, Logs and sawdust pile up outside the mill; 8, Saw sharpening device fabricated by Raoul Tardiff; these can be purchased commercially, but are expensive; 9, Spare parts, storage, and repair room in the mill; 10-12, Office; the object on the top of the desk is a windpowered model of loggers made by Raoul Tardiff. It is usually kept on a shelf in the office; 13, Planer, bought second-hand and refurbished by Raoul; 14-15, Danny Tardiff saws boards; 16-18, Spare parts, storage, and repair room; 19-20, Succession of mill ownership written in concrete at the door to the mill office. "Corriveau 1948" refers to the mill's builder, Joseph Corriveau. Raoul Tardiff bought the mill in 1961; These images document a collection of musical instruments which belonged to the late Theodore Brown of Wallagrass, ME. They are currently in the possession of his widow, Katherine; 21-22, An instrument called a "mandolin-guitar harp" by its manufacturer, The Home Educational Co. of Concord, North Carolina; the instrument has 4 6 strings; 23-24, Open-backed 5-string banjo made by S. S. Stewart, Philadelphia, PA. This banjo, as well as the two described below, are probably of late 1920s or early 1930s manufacture; 25-26, Long-necked Vega tenor banjo; 26-27, Another Vega tenor banjo, this one with the more usual shorter neck. Both Vega banjos had maple resonators and chrome tone rings; 29-30, Harmony tenor guitar, mahogany body and spruce top; vintage unknown. Tenor guitars enjoyed a brief surge in popularity during the "folk revival" of the 1960s, and this instrument may date from that period; These images document a series of maps photographed at the Registry of Deeds in Fort Kent, ME. Local historian Guy Dubay assisted me by finding relevant maps; 31-33, Madawaska; from an 1843 map by Philip Eastman, John W. Dana, and Henry M. Cunningham. Three tiers, or rang, of long lots can be seen extending back from the St. John River. This map contains the original site of the Fred Albert house, lot #138; 34-36, Van Buren; a composite map done in 1933 by Henry J. Pelletier using 1846 and 1860 maps. Notice how the long lots of the original grants given to the French meet the square plots granted later by the United States government. This area of later grants is often referred to as the concession; 37, Van Buren, from the Atlas of Aroostook County, Maine, by F. B. Roe and N. Geo. Colby, 1877. This map contains the sites of the house presently owned by Val Violette, and the Maison Heritage, a National Register of Historic Places house which is currently disassembled and under a tarp behind the house of Don Cyr in Lille, ME.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B052 Maps and deeds at Registry of Deeds, Fort Kent, Maine; Musicians Paul-Emile Martin and Ida Roy performing, University of Maine-Fort Kent, Fort Kent, Maine, July 19, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b052
38 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document a series of maps and deeds photographed at the Registry of Deeds in Fort Kent, ME. See MAP-DW-B051 for more information; 0-11, Different views of the map of Van Buren from the 1877 Roe and Colby atlas; see MAP-DW-B051, #37 for more information; 12-17, Madawaska, from Roe and Colby; 18-23, Deed between Luc Albert and his father, Anselme; pertains to original site of Fred Albert house; 24-29, Belonie Violette's deed on what is now the Val Violette house; These images document a dinner given for elderhostelrs at the University of Maine-Fort Kent; 30, University President Richard Dumont leaves the lectern after some welcoming remarks; 31-32, Musician Paul-Emile Martin sings, accompanying himself on guitar; 33-end, Singer Ida Roy does one of her traditional song.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B053 Elderhosteler dinner, University of Maine-Fort Kent, Maine; Anita Albert, weaver, St-Jacques, New Brunswick, Canada; St. Luce Catholic Church, Frenchville, Maine, July 19, 1991 - July 20, 1991
Photographer: David A. Whitman
Digital content available: afc1991029_dw_b053
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