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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Topic(s)
- Winter [9]
- Group portraits [6]
- Portrait photographs [6]
- Horses [3]
- Lumber industry [3]
- Fuelwood [1]
- Houses [1]
- Loggers [1]
- Logs [1]
- Men [1]
- Mills [1]
- Ox teams [1]
- Retaining walls [1]
- Roads [1]
- Saws [1]
- Smokestacks [1]
- Snow removal [1]
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Topic: ("Winter")
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: 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: 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 sawing wood
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of men sawing wood. Quality of original negative is poor.
Title: Oxen pulling logs
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Men using oxen to pull logs with chains at the bottom of a small hill.
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."
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.
Title: Several large log piles
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Several large log piles, with smokestack in back for steam power. Ca. 1903.
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