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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5 Danville, VT

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5 1900
Miniature of Village view
Village view
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    • Date Created: 1900
    • Description: View of North Danville, village green is in middle of the photograph, church on the left hand side.
    • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
    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.
      • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
      Miniature of Village view with three teams of oxen
      Village view with three teams of oxen
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        • Date Created: 1900
        • Description: Village view with three teams of oxen with three generations of men leading them. Also pictured are a man and two little girls standing by a tree and a woman seated against a house. Firewood is split and piled in two of the yards.
        • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
        Miniature of Village view
        Village view
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          • Date Created: 1900
          • Description: View of North Danville, village green is in middle of the photograph, church on the left hand side.
          • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
          Miniature of Danville general store
          Danville general store
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            • Date Created: 1900
            • Description: View of Danville general store, the John Weeks store, and neighboring buildings from the southeast, ca. 1900.
            • Parent Collections: Tennie Toussaint Photographs