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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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 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: Oxen pulling logs
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Men using oxen to pull logs with chains at the bottom of a small hill.
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: 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: Store
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of a store in North Danville that sells groceries and Waverly shoes, and also serves as the post office. Two women and two children are pictured standing on the porch.
Title: Two individuals in blackface
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Two individuals in blackface and in costumes with banjos.
Title: Two men pictured in front of Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Two men pictured in front of Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont, which is under construction.
Title: Two men standing on one of several large log piles
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Two men standing on one of several large log piles. Note with picture reads "This picture was taken after steam was installed for power, about 1903. Note tall smoke stack."
Title: Village view with team of oxen on road
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Village view with a man leading a team of oxen on road, and a horse and wagon behind them. Houses on either side of the road, with a hillside rising in the background. Firewood is split and piled in two of the yards.
Title: Village view with three teams of oxen
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Village view with three teams of oxen with three generations of men leading them. Also pictured are a man and two little girls standing by a tree and a woman seated against a house. Firewood is split and piled in two of the yards.
Title: Women and young girls sitting at picnic tables.
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Group of women and young girls sitting at picnic tables.
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