Tennie Toussaint Photographs

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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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Title: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
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Subject: Portrait photographs, Group portraits, Horses, Winter, Houses, Lumber industry, Railroads, Mills, Maple sugar industry, Railroad bridges, Barns
Description: 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 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.
Publisher: University of Vermont Libraries, Center for Digital Initiatives
Contributor: Toussaint, Tennie (Creator)
Date
Type: Collection, StillImage, Photographs
Format: nonprojected graphic
Identifier: uvmcdi:toussaint, local: tennietoussaint
Source: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
Language: eng
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Coverage: Danville, (Vt.)
Rights: Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the UVM Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives at cdi@uvm.edu.

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Title: Barn raising
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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.

Title: Barn raising
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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.

Title: Barn raising
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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.

Title: Barn raising dinner
Date Created: 1910
Description: 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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Title: Boiling sap outdoors
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of an outdoor sugar making operation. Pictured are sap buckets, a boiler over a wood-fire, logs for the fire, and an axe for cutting wood.

Title: Building next to a stream and dam
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of a grist mill, one of the earliest buildings in North Danville, next to a stream and dam. The earliest mention of the mill is 1811 and it was taken down in 1913 by its owner, Arthur Sanborn. Also pictured is a small truss bridge on a large stone foundation.

Title: Camp scene of men, women, and children.
Date Created: 1900
Description: Group of men, women, and children in camp.

Title: Church
Date Created: 1900
Description: North Danville Baptist Church, built in 1868.

Title: Couple with phonograph in a field
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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.

Title: Culvert underneath Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of culvert underneath Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont. Granite wall to support culvert and hold back embankment is under construction.

Title: Dam with piles of logs in the background
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of a dam with piles of logs in the background. Dam was the source of power for the Sanborn sawmill and grist mill. Three men are standing on the edge of the water next to a small building (left to right, William Dumuskey, C. Wormwood, Mr. McFarland).

Title: Danville general store
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of Danville general store, the John Weeks store, and neighboring buildings from the southeast, ca. 1900.

Title: Deer hanging upside down surrounded by hunters
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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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Title: Dirt road in winter
Date Created: 1900
Description: Dirt road in winter with a wooden guard rail and a stone retaining wall between the road and a stream or river.

Title: Family portrait in front of a house
Date Created: 1900
Description: Family portrait. Family in front of a house with vines prominently growing up the side. Four women are seated and one man is standing.

Title: Family portrait in front of house
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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: 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: Family portrait. Family standing in front of house .

Title: Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.
Date Created: 1900
Description: Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.

Title: Farmhouse
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of a farmhouse. Wood piled on the side of the house. House features a front porch surrounded by several large trees.

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