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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- Barn raising
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- 1900
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Barn raising. Frame of barn is pictured with people standing and sitting on various levels of the frame and in front of the barn. Barn built by Frank Valley, local carpenter.
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- Barn raising
- Date Created
- 1900
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Barn raising. Frame of barn is pictured with people standing and sitting on various levels of the frame and in front of the barn. Barn built by Frank Valley, local carpenter.
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- Barn raising
- Date Created
- 1900
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Barn raising. Frame of barn is pictured with people standing and sitting on various levels of the frame. Barn built by Frank Valley, local carpenter.
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- Barn raising dinner
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- 1910
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1910 Joyce family barn raising dinner.. Photocopy of Tennie Toussaint article with this image in Folder 1 of collection. Caption reads, "Dinner at the barn raising in 1910. A few of the people are identified...dark-haired at extreme left is Ike Stanton; Lyman Morrill in white shirt beside Ike;...
Show more1910 Joyce family barn raising dinner.. Photocopy of Tennie Toussaint article with this image in Folder 1 of collection. Caption reads, "Dinner at the barn raising in 1910. A few of the people are identified...dark-haired at extreme left is Ike Stanton; Lyman Morrill in white shirt beside Ike; man seated, with straw hat, Harl Ranney; woman in center with dark dress, Mrs. Richard Langmaid; man standing at right, wearing felt hat, Ben Stevens; at right of Stevens, Mrs. Horace Ward."
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- Couple with phonograph in a field
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- 1900
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Dick and Nett Langmaid taken in the field near their home soon after 1900. He is sitting behind a phonograph, she is sitting in a chair knitting. The Langmaids were one of the first seven families in North Danville.
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- Deer hanging upside down surrounded by hunters
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- 1900
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Deer hanging upside down surrounded by about twenty hunters, the Langmaids and Chickerings, on Walden Mountain. Many of the hunters are holding rifles. Small tent is set up in the background. Solomon Langmaid is fourth from the left, just to the right of the deer. William Knapp Langmaid is also...
Show moreDeer hanging upside down surrounded by about twenty hunters, the Langmaids and Chickerings, on Walden Mountain. Many of the hunters are holding rifles. Small tent is set up in the background. Solomon Langmaid is fourth from the left, just to the right of the deer. William Knapp Langmaid is also in the picture.
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- Group portrait at the edge of the woods
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- 1900
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Group of women and children and one man sitting at the edge of the woods.
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- Group with horses in front of a sugarhouse
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- 1900
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Horses pulling sap into the sugarhouse. Man pictured in the doorway. Smoke coming from chimney. Boy pictured in front with sled. Two individuals pictured in the back, one is driving the horses, the other is carrying two buckets.
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- Harvesting ice
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- 1900
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Group of men, women, and children picture with ice blocks and ice harvesting tools.
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- Horses pulling a snow roller
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- 1900
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Four horses pulling two men on top of a snow roller, in order to pack the snow on a road.
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- House
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- 1900
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Group pictured in front of a house.
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- House with family on porch
- Date Created
- 1900
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Family standing on porch of house, barn pictured in background.
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- Loading hay
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- 1900
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Three men loading hay onto a wagon pulled by two horses.
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- Lucius Stanton and an unidentified friend enjoy a glass of cider
- Date Created
- 1900
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Used in a Burlington Free Press article (February 27, 1969) by Tennie Toussaint, "Early Vermonters Found Cash, Conviviality in 'Hard Likker': Potato Whiskey Ads Once Familiar." Caption for photo is "Lucius Stanton, right, and an unidentified friend enjoy a glass of cider in the front yard of...
Show moreUsed in a Burlington Free Press article (February 27, 1969) by Tennie Toussaint, "Early Vermonters Found Cash, Conviviality in 'Hard Likker': Potato Whiskey Ads Once Familiar." Caption for photo is "Lucius Stanton, right, and an unidentified friend enjoy a glass of cider in the front yard of Stanton's farm home above North Danville. The property is now the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Langmaid. This photo was probably taken about 1900."
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- Man, horse, and carriage with two women
- Date Created
- 1900
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A member of the Langmaid family holding the head of a horse, which is pulling a carriage with two women seated in it. Picture taken in front of Elgin Gates' house. Mrs. Gates is the older woman on the wagon.
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- Men and horses in front of a sugarhouse
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- 1900
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Portrait of men with horses and sled pulling maple sap into the sugarhouse.
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- Men and women standing on the roof and in front of a building
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- 1900
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Group of men and women standing on the roof and in front of a building. Structure is probably related to North Danville sawmill operations.
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- Men loading logs onto a train car
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- 1900
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Group of men in the process of loading logs onto train cars for removal from the woods. Large piles of logs are on one side of the railroad tracks.
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- Men sawing wood
- Date Created
- 1900
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Group of men sawing wood. Quality of original negative is poor.
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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