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 Loading hay
Loading hay
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    • Date Created: 1900
    • Description: Three men loading hay onto a wagon pulled by two horses.
    • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
    Miniature of Horses pulling a snow roller
    Horses pulling a snow roller
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      • Date Created: 1900
      • Description: Four horses pulling two men on top of a snow roller, in order to pack the snow on a road.
      • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
      Miniature of Men and horses in front of a sugarhouse
      Men and horses in front of a sugarhouse
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        • Date Created: 1900
        • Description: Portrait of men with horses and sled pulling maple sap into the sugarhouse.
        • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
        Miniature of Man, horse, and carriage with two women
        Man, horse, and carriage with two women
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          • Date Created: 1900
          • Description: A member of the Langmaid family holding the head of a horse, which is pulling a carriage with two women seated in it. Picture taken in front of Elgin Gates' house. Mrs. Gates is the older woman on the wagon.
          • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
          Miniature of Unloading maple sap into sugarhouse
          Unloading maple sap into sugarhouse
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            • Date Created: 1900
            • Description: Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.
            • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
            Miniature of Sawing wood with a drag-saw using horse power in North Danville
            Sawing wood with a drag-saw using horse power in North Danville
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              • 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.
              • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
              Miniature of Group with horses in front of a sugarhouse
              Group with horses in front of a sugarhouse
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                • Date Created: 1900
                • Description: Horses pulling sap into the sugarhouse. Man pictured in the doorway. Smoke coming from chimney. Boy pictured in front with sled. Two individuals pictured in the back, one is driving the horses, the other is carrying two buckets.
                • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
                Miniature of Sawing logs by horsepower
                Sawing logs by horsepower
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                  • 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."
                  • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs