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Title: Dirt road in winter
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: Group of men sawing wood. Quality of original negative is poor.

Title: Oxen pulling logs
Date Created: 1900
Description: Men using oxen to pull logs with chains at the bottom of a small hill.

Title: Sawing logs by horsepower
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: 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. House to the right was a stop for stagecoach passengers at one point in time.

Title: Several large log piles
Date Created: 1900
Description: Several large log piles, with smokestack in back for steam power. Ca. 1903.

Title: Tennie Toussaint Photographs
Description: 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. In addition, she was an artist,...
Show moreThe 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. In addition, she was an artist, librarian, made maple syrup, and refinished antique chairs.
The photographs were taken by Elgin Gates, a North Danville blacksmith. Other notable figures in this collection are Frank Valley, a carpenter responsible for a lot of the new barns built at this time and the remodeling of many local houses who was known for his meticulous craftmanship, and Arthur Sanborn, who owned the sawmill and whose home had modern touches such as electricity, an aluminum roof, and a stained glass window. The mill owned by Sanborn had previously been run by the McFarlands and produced one million board feet a year at its peak.

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Title: Winter landscape
Date Created: 1900
Description: Winter landscape, Lottie Willey's house, married Rufus Hubbard. House built by Frank Valley.

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