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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- Lumber industry [8]
- Group portraits [5]
- Logs [5]
- Portrait photographs [5]
- Mills [4]
- Men [1]
- Ox teams [1]
- Railroad locomotives [1]
- Water power [1]
- Woodcutters [1]
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Topic: ("Lumber industry")
Title: Dam with piles of logs in the background
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
View of a dam with piles of logs in the background. Dam is probably the source of power for a sawmill. Three men are standing on the edge of the water next to a small building.
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: 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: Oxen pulling logs
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Men using oxen to pull logs with chains at the bottom of a small hill.
Title: Several large log piles
Date: 1900
Resource type: photographs
Several large log piles, with smokestack in back for steam power. Ca. 1903.
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."
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