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)
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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 [email protected].

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Title: North Danville sawmill workers
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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."

Title: Old North Church
Date Created: 1900
Description: Old North Church. Long open front porch and large front window. Built in 1832 for four denominations. Originally had windows on four sides. Porch height was set up to step off buggy or wagon.

Title: Oxen pulling logs
Date Created: 1900
Description: Men using oxen to pull logs with chains at the bottom of a small hill.

Title: Portrait of a seated older woman.
Date Created: 1900
Description: Portrait of a seated older woman.

Title: Portrait of two women.
Date Created: 1900
Description: Portrait of two women.

Title: Railroad workers
Date Created: 1900
Description: Group of railroad workers standing next to the rail line they are laying down. Steam engine used for power is also pictured.

Title: Railroad workers loading dirt into train cars
Date Created: 1900
Description: Railroad workers loading dirt into train cars.

Title: Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
Date Created: 1900
Description: Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel

Title: Sap buckets
Date Created: 1900
Description: Collection of sap buckets at the bottom of a tree.

Title: Sawing logs by horsepower
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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."

Title: Sawing wood with a drag-saw using horse power in North Danville
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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.

Title: Several large log piles
Date Created: 1900
Description: Several large log piles, with smokestack in back for steam power. Ca. 1903.

Title: Store
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of the Kelsey store in North Danville that sold groceries and Waverly shoes, and also served as the post office. Two women and two children are pictured standing on the porch. After the store burned down, the site was home to Elgin Gates' blacksmith shop and then Arthur Sanborn's house.

Title: Train crossing Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont
Date Created: 1900
Description: Train crossing Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont. Pictured is locomotive and eight cars, bridge, and culvert with granite wall support.

Title: Two individuals in blackface
Date Created: 1900
Description: Two individuals in blackface and in costumes with banjos.

Title: Two men pictured in front of Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont
Date Created: 1900
Description: Two men pictured in front of Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont, which is under construction.

Title: Two men standing on one of several large log piles
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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."

Title: Unloading maple sap into sugarhouse
Date Created: 1900
Description: Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.

Title: Village view
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of North Danville, village green is in middle of the photograph, church on the left hand side.

Title: Village view
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of North Danville, village green is in middle of the photograph, church on the left hand side.

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