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 [40]
Place(s)
- Danville, VT [40]
Format(s)
- image [40]
Genre(s)
- photographs [40]
Topic(s)
- Group portraits [40]
- Portrait photographs [40]
- Horses [7]
- Families [6]
- Houses [6]
- Railroads [5]
- Agricultural laborers [3]
- Barns [3]
- Building construction [3]
- Men [3]
- Ox teams [3]
- Structural frames [3]
- Woodcutters [3]
- Knitting [2]
- Loggers [2]
- Logs [2]
- Maple sugar industry [2]
- Mills [2]
- Railroad bridges [2]
- Railroad rails [2]
- Trestles [2]
- Villages [2]
- Woodcutting [2]
- Agricultural machinery & implements [1]
- Agriculture [1]
- Alcoholic beverages [1]
- Banjos [1]
- Carriages & coaches [1]
- Cider [1]
- Deer [1]
- Eating & drinking [1]
- Farmhouses [1]
- Fuelwood [1]
- General stores [1]
- Grocery stores [1]
- Hay [1]
- Hunting [1]
- Ice industry [1]
- Laborers [1]
- Minstrel shows [1]
- Phonographs [1]
- Post offices [1]
- Railroad locomotives [1]
- Reading [1]
- Rifles [1]
- Rocking chairs [1]
- Saws [1]
- Shoe stores [1]
- Smokestacks [1]
- Snow [1]
- Snow removal [1]
- Steam engines [1]
- Steam shovels [1]
- Stereographs [1]
- Tents [1]
- Trees [1]
- Vines [1]
- Women [1]
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Topic: ("Group portraits")
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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
Title: House with family on porch
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Family standing on porch of house, barn pictured in background.
Title: Loading hay
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Three men loading hay onto a wagon pulled by two horses.
Title: Lucius Stanton and an unidentified friend enjoy a glass of cider
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Used in a Burlington Free Press article (February 27, 1969) by Tennie Toussaint, "Early Vermonters Found Cash, Conviviality in 'Hard Likker': Potato Whiskey Ads Once Familiar." Caption for photo is "Lucius Stanton, right, and an unidentified friend enjoy a glass of cider in the front yard of Stanton's farm home above North Danville. The property is now the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Langmaid. This photo was probably taken about 1900."
Title: Man, horse, and carriage with two women
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Man holding the head of a horse, which is pulling a carriage with two women seated in it. Group is in front of a house.
Title: Men and horses in front of a sugarhouse
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Portrait of men with horses and sled pulling maple sap into the sugarhouse.
Title: Men and women standing on the roof and in front of a building
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of men and women standing on the roof and in front of a building. Structure is probably related to North Danville sawmill operations.
Title: Men loading logs onto a train car
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of men in the process of loading logs onto train cars for removal from the woods. Large piles of logs are on one side of the railroad tracks.
Title: Men sawing wood
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of men sawing wood. Quality of original negative is poor.
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