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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Miniature of Harvesting ice
Harvesting ice
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    • Date Created: 1900
    • Description: Group of men, women, and children picture with ice blocks and ice harvesting tools.
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    Miniature of Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
    Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
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      • Date Created: 1900
      • Description: Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
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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 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 Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.
          Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.
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            • Date Created: 1900
            • Description: Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.
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            Miniature of Village view with team of oxen on road
            Village view with team of oxen on road
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              • Date Created: 1900
              • Description: Village view with a man leading a team of oxen on road, and a horse and wagon behind them. Houses on either side of the road, with a hillside rising in the background. Firewood is split and piled in two of the yards.
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              Miniature of Store
              Store
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                • 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.
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                Miniature of John Weeks store in North Danville, Vt.
                John Weeks store in North Danville, Vt.
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                  • Date Created: 1900
                  • Description: John Weeks store in North Danville, Vt.
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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 Deer hanging upside down surrounded by hunters
                    Deer hanging upside down surrounded by hunters
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                      • 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 in the picture.
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