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Title: Lucius Stanton and an unidentified friend enjoy a glass of cider
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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...
Show moreUsed 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."
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Title: Man, horse, and carriage with two women
Date Created: 1900
Description: A member of the Langmaid family holding the head of a horse, which is pulling a carriage with two women seated in it. Picture taken in front of Elgin Gates' house. Mrs. Gates is the older woman on the wagon.

Title: Men and horses in front of a sugarhouse
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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 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 loading logs onto a train car
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: Men with horses and wagons at the bottom of the Pumpkin Hill Bridge in Danville, Vermont

Title: North Danville sawmill workers
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: Men using oxen to pull logs with chains at the bottom of a small hill.

Title: Portrait of Patrick Leahy, James Jeffords and Michael Dubie
Date Created: 2006-04-02
Description: April 2, 2006: National Guard Change Of Command Ceremony - [PICTURED: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), right, attended the April 2 National Guard Change of Command Ceremony for Brigadier General Michael Dubie, center, who became the new Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard. The ceremony was...
Show moreApril 2, 2006: National Guard Change Of Command Ceremony - [PICTURED: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), right, attended the April 2 National Guard Change of Command Ceremony for Brigadier General Michael Dubie, center, who became the new Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard. The ceremony was held in the Green Mountain Armory at Camp Johnson in Colchester, Vermont. Joining Dubie and Leahy was Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), left.]
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Title: Railroad workers
Date Created: 1900
Description: Group of railroad workers standing next to the rail line they are laying down. Steam engine used for power is also pictured.

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: Store
Date Created: 1900
Description: View of the Kelsey store in North Danville that sold groceries and Waverly shoes, and also served as the post office. Two women and two children are pictured standing on the porch. After the store burned down, the site was home to Elgin Gates' blacksmith shop and then Arthur Sanborn's house.

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: Two men pictured in front of Pumpkin Hill bridge in Danville, Vermont
Date Created: 1900
Description: 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 Created: 1900
Description: Two men standing on one of several large log piles. On the left is Harry Adams and on the right is William Hubbard, both of whom worked in the mill. Note with picture reads "This picture was taken after steam was installed for power, about 1903. Note tall smoke stack."

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