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: House and barns across a field with rolling hills and fields in the background.
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of house and barns across a field with rolling hills and fields in the background.
Title: House with family on porch
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Family standing on porch of house, barn pictured in background.
Title: John Weeks store in North Danville, Vt.
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
John Weeks store in North Danville, Vt.
Title: John Weeks store in North Danville, Vt.
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
John Weeks store in North Danville, Vt.
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 leaning against a building next to a stream and dam
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Man leaning against 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: 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.
Title: Men with horses and wagons at the bottom of the Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Men with horses and wagons at the bottom of the Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont
Title: North Danville sawmill
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Caption to Tennie Toussaint article in Burlington Free Press December 30, 1971 reads, "Taken at North Danville sawmill about 1900, this picture also could have been taken three weeks ago. The only changes are a small bridge in the center, which used to be wooden and is now iron, and the barn on the right is now gone."
Title: North Danville sawmill workers
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Picture appears on p. 138 of Susannah Clifford's "Village in the Hills: a History of Danville, Vermont 1786-1995." Caption reads, "The sawmill in North Danville. Arthur Sanborn, whose office was in the little building at the right, is at the extreme left."
Title: Old North Church
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Old North Church. Long open front porch and large front window.
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: Portrait of a seated older woman.
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Portrait of a seated older woman.
Title: Railroad workers
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of railroad workers standing next to the rail line they are laying down. Steam engine used for power is also pictured.
Title: Railroad workers loading dirt into train cars
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Railroad workers loading dirt into train cars.
Title: Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Railroad workers pictured with a steam powered shovel
Title: Sap buckets
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Collection of sap buckets at the bottom of a tree.
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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