Tennie Toussaint Photographs
Collection Overview
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.
Time Period Covered: circa 1900
Source Document: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
Published: April 10, 2007, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Contributor(s)
- Toussaint, Tennie [66]
Place(s)
- Danville, VT [66]
Format(s)
- image [66]
Genre(s)
- photographs [66]
Topic(s)
- Portrait photographs [45]
- Group portraits [40]
- Houses [10]
- Winter [9]
- Horses [8]
- Families [6]
- Mills [6]
- Logs [5]
- Maple sugar industry [5]
- Villages [5]
- Women [5]
- Agricultural laborers [4]
- General stores [4]
- Men [4]
- Railroad bridges [4]
- Trestles [4]
- Barns [3]
- Building construction [3]
- Dams [3]
- Meadows [3]
- Ox teams [3]
- Scenic overlooks [3]
- Structural frames [3]
- Water power [3]
- Woodcutters [3]
- Agricultural facilities [2]
- Bridges [2]
- Churches [2]
- Culverts [2]
- Farmhouses [2]
- Fences [2]
- Foundations [2]
- Fuelwood [2]
- Hills [2]
- Knitting [2]
- Loggers [2]
- Railroad locomotives [2]
- Railroad rails [2]
- Smokestacks [2]
- Snow [2]
- Truss bridges [2]
- Woodcutting [2]
- Agricultural machinery & implements [1]
- Agriculture [1]
- Alcoholic beverages [1]
- Axes [1]
- Baby carriages [1]
- Banjos [1]
- Carriages & coaches [1]
- Children [1]
- Cider [1]
- Deer [1]
- Dogs [1]
- Eating & drinking [1]
- Grocery stores [1]
- Hay [1]
- Hunting [1]
- Ice industry [1]
- Laborers [1]
- Maples [1]
- Minstrel shows [1]
- Mothers [1]
- Pails [1]
- Phonographs [1]
- Post offices [1]
- Railroad cars [1]
- Reading [1]
- Retaining walls [1]
- Rifles [1]
- Roads [1]
- Rocking chairs [1]
- Saws [1]
- Shoe stores [1]
- Shrubs [1]
- Snow removal [1]
- Steam engines [1]
- Steam shovels [1]
- Stereographs [1]
- Tents [1]
- Trees [1]
- Vines [1]
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Title: Barn raising
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Barn raising. Frame of barn is pictured with people standing and sitting on various levels of the frame.
Title: Barn raising
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Barn raising. Frame of barn is pictured with people standing and sitting on various levels of the frame and in front of the barn.
Title: Barn raising
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Barn raising. Frame of barn is pictured with people standing and sitting on various levels of the frame and in front of the barn.
Title: Barn raising dinner
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
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."
Title: Boiling sap outdoors
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
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.
Title: Building next to a stream and dam
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of a building next to a stream and dam, which is probably the power source for a sawmill. Also pictured is a small truss bridge on a large stone foundation.
Title: Camp scene of men, women, and children.
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of men, women, and children in camp.
Title: Couple with phonograph in a field
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
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.
Title: Culvert underneath Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of culvert underneath Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont. Granite wall to support culvert and hold back embankment is under construction.
Title: Dam with piles of logs in the background
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of a dam with piles of logs in the background. Dam is probably the source of power for a sawmill. Three men are standing on the edge of the water next to a small building.
Title: Danville general store
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of Danville general store and neigboring buildings from the southeast, ca. 1900.
Title: Deer hanging upside down surrounded by hunters
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Deer hanging upside down surrounded by about twenty hunters. Many of the hunters are holding rifles. Small tent is set up in the background.
Title: Dirt road in winter
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Dirt road in winter with a wooden guard rail and a stone retaining wall between the road and a stream or river.
Title: Family portrait in front of a house
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Family portrait. Family in front of a house with vines prominently growing up the side. Four women are seated and one man is standing.
Title: Family portrait in front of house
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Family portrait. Family seated and standing in front of house with front door open.
Title: Family portrait in front of house, men only
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Family portrait. Family seated and standing in front of house with front door open. Same family as uvmsctous3003b, but only the males are pictured. Stereograph.
Title: Family portrait, standing in front of house
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Family portrait. Family standing in front of house .
Title: Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Family seated insde a house reading and knitting.
Title: Farmhouse
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of a farmhouse. Wood piled on the side of the house. House features a front porch surrounded by several large trees.
Title: Group portrait at the edge of the woods
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of women and children and one man sitting at the edge of the woods.
Title: Group with horses in front of a sugarhouse
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
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.
Title: Harvesting ice
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of men, women, and children picture with ice blocks and ice harvesting tools.
Title: Horses pulling a snow roller
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Four horses pulling two men on top of a snow roller, in order to pack the snow on a road.
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