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Main Street looking North
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    • Parent Collections: Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)


    Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)
      • Description:

        This collection contains 794 images comprising 122 years of history in Vergennes, Vermont’s oldest city. Featuring a wide range of topics, which date from the 1866 Civil War parade to the 1988 Bicentennial, the collection provides a comprehensive and unusual look at small town life in northern Vermont. These photographs document the full visual spectrum of history in Vergennes, from businesses, industries, and transportation to natural scenery, paintings, and portraits of people who once walked the city’s streets.

        These images were scanned from 35mm slides located in the Bixby Memorial Free Library archives in Vergennes. The slides were made around 1987 from color photographs taken of the original images. The originals, mainly of the Vergennes area but including several from Ferrisburgh and Lake Champlain, had accumulated over the years in the library’s historical materials repository. Many of these photographs, along with the slides and accompanying inventory notebook, can be viewed with permission at the library.

        The authors of these photographs remain undocumented and anonymous, except for a selection of photographs by local artist Harvey Custer Ingham (1863-1931), a personal friend of local businessman and library founder William Gove Bixby (1829-1907).

        Mr. Bixby left funds from his estate for the founding of a public library in the city of Vergennes, including the construction of the imposing Greek revival library building on Main Street. The library opened on November 4, 1912, and in 2012 celebrates a century of continued service to Vergennes and the surrounding towns of Addison, Panton, Waltham, and Ferrisburgh.



      Old High School
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        • Description: Graded School, Vergennes, Vt.
        • Parent Collections: Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)


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        Haying near Brattleboro, Vt.
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          • Date Created: 1909
          • Description: Weslie Rockwell on hay cart, pulled by oxen team, in a field in Brattleboro.
          • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


          West Brattlboro, Vt.
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            • Date Created: 1909
            • Description: Western Avenue (Main Street) looking north at Meadowbrook Road (road to right).
            • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


            Exhibition of Fine Horses, Valley Fair.
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              • Date Created: 1910
              • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


              Small Victorian House in Brookline, Vt.
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                • Date Created: 1910
                • Description: House identified on cataloging card as either O.R. Wright's or Fred Underwood's.
                • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


                The Brookline Meadows
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                  • Date Created: 1909
                  • Description: Looking out over the Brookline Meadows, with West River in foreground and cemetery in background.
                  • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


                  Edward Pratt and his Oxen with logs, in the snow, Dover, Vt.
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                    • Date Created: 1909
                    • Description: Winter scene of Edward Pratt holding a switch, next to team of oxen, attached to a log sled, more logs in background. See image bmlthayer T90 also.
                    • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs