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Description
The photograph depicts both the local headquarters of the U.S. border patrol in Fort Kent and the international bridge built across the St. John River in the 1920s. Frank R. Soeder (1917-2001) served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. Discharged in 1946, he joined the border patrol. He became an immigration and naturalization inspector at the Van Buren Port of Entry.
About This Item
- Title: Frank Soeder, Fort Kent, 1946
- Creation Date: 1946
- Subject Date: 1946
- Location: Fort Kent, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 9.5 cm x 7.0 cm
- Local Code: MCC-00422
- Collection: Frank Soeder Border Patrol Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Border patrol agents--Maine--Fort Kent
- Saint John River (Me. and N.B.)
- U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II
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For more information about this item, contact:
Acadian ArchivesUMFK, 23 University Drive, Fort Kent, ME 04743
(207) 834-7535
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International bridge and border crossing, Madawaska, ca. 1948
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