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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- Men with horses and wagons at the bottom of the Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
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- 1900
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Men with horses and wagons at the bottom of the Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
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- Railroad workers
- Date Created
- 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
- Date Created
- 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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- 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.