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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- Camp scene of men, women, and children.
- Date Created
- 1900
- Description
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Group of men, women, and children in camp.
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- Family portrait in front of a house
- Date Created
- 1900
- Description
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Family portrait. Family in front of a house with vines prominently growing up the side. Four women are seated and one man is standing.
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- Family portrait in front of house
- Date Created
- 1900
- Description
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Family portrait. Family seated and standing in front of house with front door open.
- Title
- Family portrait in front of house, men only
- Date Created
- 1900
- Description
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Family portrait. Family seated and standing in front of house with front door open. Same family as uvmsctous3003b, but only the males are pictured. Stereograph.
- Title
- Family portrait, standing in front of house
- Date Created
- 1900
- Description
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Family portrait. Family standing in front of house .
- Title
- Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.
- Date Created
- 1900
- Description
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Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.