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| Series 3: Graphic materials (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Black-and-white negatives (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Sirois and Duplessis family reunion banquet and dance, Acadian Festival parade, Madawaska, Maine, 1991 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Photographer: Ray C. Brassieur | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available: afc1991029_rb_b002_61420 | |||||||||||||
| 36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives | |||||||||||||
| These images document the Sirois/Duplessis family reunion banquet/dance held at the Madawaska Multi-Purpose Building as part of the annual Acadian Festival; 1-20, There were a variety of awards/presentations, for oldest attendee, youngest attendee, etc.; 22-29, A dance followed the banquet, music by the Jerry T. Band; The following images document the parade held in Madawaska, ME, as part of the annual Acadian Festival; 30-31, Greater Little Miss Madawaska waves to the crowd; 32, A group of fairy tale characters; 33-34, Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtles; 35, Various costumed cartoon characters; 36-36a, Foreground, stunt bicyclists; background, the Marching Owls, Madawaska High School Band. | |||||||||||||
| Call number: AFC 1991/029: RB-B003-4022 | Acadian Festival parade in Madawaska, Maine, 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Photographer: Ray C. Brassieur | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available: afc1991029_rb_b003_4022 | |||||||||||||
| 38 35 mm black-and-white film negatives | |||||||||||||
| These images document the parade held in Madawaska, ME, as part of the annual Acadian Festival; 0-1, Sirois/Duplessis family float; this was the family whose reunion was a feature event of this year's Acadian Festival; 2, Rosaire Sirois' truck; 3, Shop 'n' Save environmental banner; 4-6, Southern Victoria Pipe Band; 6-7, Majorettes encounter an apparently confused bicyclist; 8, Smokey the Bear; 9-11, Bouchard family reunion float; the Bouchard reunion was one of the features of last year's (1990) Acadian Festival; 12-14, One of several pop music bands which performed during the parade; 15-18, The Caribou Grizzlies; 19-20, Annah Temple Oriental Band; 21-24, Aroostook Family Farm Core float; 25, Potato-costumed marcher; 26-27, Aroostook Family Farm Core; 28, A marcher carries a potato basket; 29-35, The Keystone Kops; 36, A snowman in June; 37, Snowmobile club float. | |||||||||||||
| Call number: AFC 1991/029: RB-B004-4046 | Buildings and scenes, Eagle Lake, Maine; Gilman Caron home, Lavertu Settlement, Maine; Miscellaneous images, Fort Kent, Maine, 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Photographer: Ray C. Brassieur | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available: afc1991029_rb_b004_4046 | |||||||||||||
| 37 35 mm black-and-white film negatives | |||||||||||||
| These images document a variety of buildings and scenes.; 1, Blank frame; 2, Defunct dairy bar, Eagle Lake; 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle graffiti, Eagle Lake; These images document a visit to the house of Gilman Caron in Lavertu Settlement, ME; 4-7, Pieces removed from the house during a remodeling; the tenon and wooden peg were commonly used in nineteenth century Acadian construction; 8-12, Exterior of Gilman Caron's house; the smaller section to the right and the covered porch represent later additions. The second floor door (#12) is a curiosity; apparently there used to be stairs on this side of the house; 13-14, Mr. Caron's garden, in which he plants a wide variety of vegetables and flowers; 15, Weathervane with a boat; 16, Caron poses with an old tractor which he is restoring; 17-21, Log platform which covers a spring cutlet on Caron's property; 22, Caron's tractor; 23, Overexposed image; Miscellaneous images; 24-25, Porsche with "PATATE" license plates at Doris' Cafe in Fort Kent, ME; potatoes are the primary crop in the study area (patate is Acadian French for potato); These images document a visit to Leona Cyr at La Maison Acadienne, a senior citizens' home in Madawaska, ME; 26-28, Ms. Cyr shows some of her weavings; 29-33, Some of Ms. Cyr's wor; 34, Sign at La Maison Acadienne. | |||||||||||||
| Call number: AFC 1991/029: RB-B005 | Farm buildings, Fort Kent, Maine; Tintamarre, Grand Riviere Festival, Native American Day at the Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine; Home of Claude "Blackie" Cyr in Saint David, Maine, 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Photographer: Ray C. Brassieur | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available: afc1991029_rb_b005 | |||||||||||||
| 27 35 mm black-and-white film negatives | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous scenes; 0, Building under construction on a farm on State Highway- 161 (Caribou Rd.) , Fort Kent, ME; we saw a number of farm buildings collapsing or being torn down, but this is one of the few we saw being erected; 1, Farmstead, eastern Fort Kent; 2-3, Collapsing twin barn, Highway 161, Fort Kent; 4-5, Participants in the Tintamarre at the annual Grande Riviere Festival in Van Bur en, ME. Groups from Van Bur en and St-Leonard, New Brunswick, met on the international bridge for a noisemaking. Here, participants gather in parking lots and on street corners in Van Buren prior to marching to the bridge; These images document Native American Day, an event held at the Village Acadien in Van Buren, ME, as part of the Grande Riviere Festival; 7-9, Spectators listen to presentations on various aspects of Native American culture. The tipi was erected especially for the event; 10, The parking lot was full; 11-12, Mic-Mac dancers circle the crowd; 13, Spectators join the dance; Various buildings and scenes; 14-15, Abandoned Frenchville Starch Factory, Frenchville; 16-18, Large produce warehouse called a potato house; these are generally located adjacent to a railroad line, and were used to store produce prior to shipping. Many of these in the study area are still standing but not currently in use; 19, Pickup truck with wooden potato barrels in the bed; these barrels were at one time widely used in the handharvesting of potatoes, but mechanical harvesting has rendered them obsolete. Some have been adapted to other purposes; 20, Gift shop at the Village Acadien These images document a visit to the Long Lake home of Claude "Blackie" Cyr in St. David, ME; 21-25, A collection of wooden figures carved by Cyr; 26-27, Statue of peg-legged sailor carved by Cyr. | |||||||||||||
| Black-and-white prints | |||||||||||||
| Items MAP-RB-B001 to MAP-RB-B005 | |||||||||||||
| Items MAP-HM-B001 to MAP-HM-B021 | |||||||||||||
| Items MAP-LO-B001 to MAP-LO-B003 | |||||||||||||
| Items MAP-DW-B001 to MAP-DW-B069 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 | Contact sheets | ||||||||||||
| Total of 97 contact sheets, comprising approximately 2,700 images, in a loose-leaf binder. (3 duplicate contact sheets are in folder number 68.) The contact sheets are available in the Folklife Reading Room. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 | Photographic prints | ||||||||||||
| 8 x 10 inch black-and-white photographic prints from field collection. 80 prints in a loose-leaf binder.. | |||||||||||||
| Series 4: Moving images | |||||||||||||
| BOX 24 | Videotapes | ||||||||||||
| Items MAP-LO-V001 to MAP-LO-V004 | |||||||||||||
| Four videotapes from the Fort Kent Historical Society. | |||||||||||||
| Item MAP-LO-V005 | |||||||||||||
| One videotape copy of the July 16, 1990, 30-minute production of the Chronicle television show, titled "The Main Streets and Back Roads of New England," showing the Upper St. John Valley and its history of the Acadian people and a look at their present-day descendents; discusses the struggle to keep their traditions alive. | |||||||||||||