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- Winooski, VT - American Woolen Mills Flag Raising
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April 14, 1917, 8 days after Congress decides to enter World War I. A crowd gathers in Mill Park for the raising of 3 flags purchased by employees of the American Woolen Mills on West Canal Street in Winooski. One was raised in front of Mill No. 3, which later housed Forest Hills Factory Outlet,...
Show moreApril 14, 1917, 8 days after Congress decides to enter World War I. A crowd gathers in Mill Park for the raising of 3 flags purchased by employees of the American Woolen Mills on West Canal Street in Winooski. One was raised in front of Mill No. 3, which later housed Forest Hills Factory Outlet, and also the Champlain Mill and the mill office. Horse drawn wagons can be seen as well as police or military personnel on horseback (the National Guard Company G was present that day, according to the Burl. Free Press, April 16, 1917). This photo (no. 5 of five), which shows McAllister's inscription, is the right end of a panorama and creates a panoramic view when placed together.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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An equestrian jumping hurdles.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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An equestrian jumping hurdles.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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An equestrian jumps hurdles.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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Two equestrians jump hurdles together.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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An equestrian jumps hurdles.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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Equestrians and equestriennes are mounted and gathered with the hounds perhaps in preparation of a fox hunt on the grounds of Shelburne Farms.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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An equestrian jumping hurdles.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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An equestrienne jumping hurdles.
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- Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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An equestrienne jumps hurdles.
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- UVM Botany Dept.
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Group of young men, including an African-American, possibly UVM students and members of a fraternity, dressed in comic "hayseed" attire and carrying scythes and pitchforks. Housing in background suggests campus setting. Horse-drawn farm implement. Warm and sunny day; occasion unknown.
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- Unloading maple sap into sugarhouse
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- 1900
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Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.
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- Tennie Toussaint Photographs
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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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- Sewer Projects
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March 9, 1932. Man, machine and animal work together on a sewer project in Burlington. A large crane pours steam into the air as it rests on an outcropping in Lake Champlain down at the water front. A horse is seen in the background with a crew member. The building of Burlington Grocery Company...
Show moreMarch 9, 1932. Man, machine and animal work together on a sewer project in Burlington. A large crane pours steam into the air as it rests on an outcropping in Lake Champlain down at the water front. A horse is seen in the background with a crew member. The building of Burlington Grocery Company on lower Maple Street and the St. Paul Street seen in distant background.
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- Sawing wood with a drag-saw using horse power in North Danville
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- 1900
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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.
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- Sawing logs by horsepower
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- 1900
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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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- Portraits, families, unidentified
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An outdoor group portrait of an unidentified man and woman with eight children as they stand in a field with a horse and a number of buildings behind them. See same family group in mcalA09F12i34 and mcalA15F02i31, i32, i33, i35
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- Portraits - Individuals
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A young woman wearing a riding outfit sits on a saddled horse that stands in a field. Dated 1958. Photo #3.
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- Portraits - Individuals
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1949 outdoor photo of an older man seated on a pinto horse.
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- Portraits - Individuals
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A woman in a riding outfit holds the reins of a horse. They stand in a field. A young boy also in riding clothes sits on the saddled horse. Dated 1958. Photo #2.