Tennie Toussaint Photographs
Collection Overview
The Tennie Toussaint collection includes photographs of agricultural landscapes, logging, mills, barn raisings, and railroad bridges from the Danville, Vermont area, circa 1900. Tennie Toussaint was a columnist for the Burlington Free Press in the...
Show moreThe Tennie Toussaint collection includes photographs of agricultural landscapes, logging, mills, barn raisings, and railroad bridges from the Danville, Vermont area, circa 1900. Tennie Toussaint was a columnist for the Burlington Free Press in the 1960s - 1970s. In addition, she was an artist, librarian, made maple syrup, and refinished antique chairs.
The photographs were taken by Elgin Gates, a North Danville blacksmith. Other notable figures in this collection are Frank Valley, a carpenter responsible for a lot of the new barns built at this time and the remodeling of many local houses who was known for his meticulous craftmanship, and Arthur Sanborn, who owned the sawmill and whose home had modern touches such as electricity, an aluminum roof, and a stained glass window. The mill owned by Sanborn had previously been run by the McFarlands and produced one million board feet a year at its peak.
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- Railroad workers
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- 1900
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Group of railroad workers standing next to the rail line they are laying down. Steam engine used for power is also pictured.
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- Railroad workers loading dirt into train cars
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- 1900
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Railroad workers loading dirt into train cars.
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- Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
- Date Created
- 1900
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Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
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- Sap buckets
- Date Created
- 1900
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Collection of sap buckets at the bottom of a tree.
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- Several large log piles
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- 1900
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Several large log piles, with smokestack in back for steam power. Ca. 1903.
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- Store
- Date Created
- 1900
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View of the Kelsey store in North Danville that sold groceries and Waverly shoes, and also served as the post office. Two women and two children are pictured standing on the porch. After the store burned down, the site was home to Elgin Gates' blacksmith shop and then Arthur Sanborn's house.
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- Train crossing Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont
- Date Created
- 1900
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Train crossing Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont. Pictured is locomotive and eight cars, bridge, and culvert with granite wall support.
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- Two individuals in blackface
- Date Created
- 1900
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Two individuals in blackface and in costumes with banjos.
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- Two men pictured in front of Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont
- Date Created
- 1900
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Two men pictured in front of Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont, which is under construction.
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- Two men standing on one of several large log piles
- Date Created
- 1900
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Two men standing on one of several large log piles. On the left is Harry Adams and on the right is William Hubbard, both of whom worked in the mill. Note with picture reads "This picture was taken after steam was installed for power, about 1903. Note tall smoke stack."
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- Village view
- Date Created
- 1900
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View of North Danville, village green is in middle of the photograph, church on the left hand side.
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- Village view
- Date Created
- 1900
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View of North Danville, village green is in middle of the photograph, church on the left hand side.
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- Village view with team of oxen on road
- Date Created
- 1900
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Village view with a man leading a team of oxen on road, and a horse and wagon behind them. Houses on either side of the road, with a hillside rising in the background. Firewood is split and piled in two of the yards.
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- Village view with three teams of oxen
- Date Created
- 1900
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Village view with three teams of oxen with three generations of men leading them. Also pictured are a man and two little girls standing by a tree and a woman seated against a house. Firewood is split and piled in two of the yards.
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- Winter landscape
- Date Created
- 1900
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Winter landscape, Lottie Willey's house, married Rufus Hubbard. House built by Frank Valley.
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- Woman leaning against the front porch
- Date Created
- 1900
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Portrait of a woman standing against the front porch of Elgin Gates' house.
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- Women and young girls sitting at picnic tables.
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- 1900
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Group of women and young girls sitting at picnic tables at the 1910 barn raising for Charles Joyce on the Old North Church Road. Pictured seated left to right are Daisy Pierce, Nellie Joyce, Luella Niles Blodgett, ?, Lottie Hawkins, Emma Shattuck, Lilly Clement, Rida Busby, ?, and Belle Ward.
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