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Tennie Toussaint Photographs

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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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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.


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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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Title:   Loading hay

Date:  1900

Resource type:   photographs

Three men loading hay onto a wagon pulled by two horses.


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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.


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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.


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Title:   Sawing logs by horsepower

Date:  1900

Resource type:   photographs

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."


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Title:   Sawing wood with a drag-saw using horse power in North Danville

Date:  1900

Resource type:   photographs

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.


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Title:   Unloading maple sap into sugarhouse

Date:  1900

Resource type:   photographs

Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.