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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- Portrait of two women.
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- 1900
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Portrait of two women.
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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
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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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- Sawing logs by horsepower
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- 1900
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Picture appears on p. 130 of Susannah Clifford's "Village in the Hills: a History of Danville, Vermont 1786-1995." Caption reads, "Sawing logs by horsepower at Webster's farm in the early 1900's. Left to right are Lee Hatch II, Arthur Webster, George Weeks, Edwin Webster, and Henry Page."
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- Sawing wood with a drag-saw using horse power in North Danville
- Date Created
- 1900
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Three men using horse power to saw wood using a drag-saw in North Danville. Wood is being sawed to firewood length and then split by hand. House to the right was a stop for stagecoach passengers at one point in time.
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- Several large log piles
- Date Created
- 1900
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Several large log piles, with smokestack in back for steam power. Ca. 1903.
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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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- Unloading maple sap into sugarhouse
- Date Created
- 1900
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Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.
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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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- Woman with a child in a baby carriage
- Date Created
- 1900
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Woman with a child in a baby carriage across the street from a store.