Tennie Toussaint Photographs

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.

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65 1900 1 1910
Miniature of Barn raising
Barn raising
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    • 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.
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    Miniature of Barn raising
    Barn raising
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      • 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.
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      Miniature of Barn raising
      Barn raising
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        • 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.
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        Miniature of Barn raising dinner
        Barn raising dinner
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          • 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; 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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          Miniature of Boiling sap outdoors
          Boiling sap outdoors
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            • 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.
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            Miniature of Building next to a stream and dam
            Building next to a stream and dam
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              • 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.
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              Miniature of Camp scene of men, women, and children.
              Camp scene of men, women, and children.
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                • Date Created: 1900
                • Description: Group of men, women, and children in camp.
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                Miniature of Church
                Church
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                  • Date Created: 1900
                  • Description: North Danville Baptist Church, built in 1868.
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                  Miniature of Couple with phonograph in a field
                  Couple with phonograph in a field
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                    • 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.
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                    Miniature of Culvert underneath Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
                    Culvert underneath Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
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                      • 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.
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