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- Dam with piles of logs in the background
- Date Created
- 1900
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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).
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- Men loading logs onto a train car
- Date Created
- 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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- North Danville sawmill
- Date Created
- 1900
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Sanborn sawmill. Caption to Tennie Toussaint article in Burlington Free Press December 30, 1971 reads, "Taken at North Danville sawmill about 1900, this picture also could have been taken three weeks ago. The only changes are a small bridge in the center, which used to be wooden and is now iron,...
Show moreSanborn sawmill. Caption to Tennie Toussaint article in Burlington Free Press December 30, 1971 reads, "Taken at North Danville sawmill about 1900, this picture also could have been taken three weeks ago. The only changes are a small bridge in the center, which used to be wooden and is now iron, and the barn on the right is now gone."
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- North Danville sawmill workers
- Date Created
- 1900
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Picture appears on p. 138 of Susannah Clifford's "Village in the Hills: a History of Danville, Vermont 1786-1995." Caption reads, "The sawmill in North Danville. Arthur Sanborn, whose office was in the little building at the right, is at the extreme left."
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- Oxen pulling logs
- Date Created
- 1900
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Men using oxen to pull logs with chains at the bottom of a small hill.
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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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- 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 1960s - 1970s. In addition, she was an artist,...
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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- 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."