Long Trail Photographs
Collection Overview
The Long Trail Collection includes over 900 images of the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the United States: Vermont’s Long Trail. The collection is mainly comprised of black-and-white and hand-colored lantern slides derived from photographs taken between 1912 and 1937. It documents the Green Mountain Club’s building of original trails and shelters and illustrates the enthusiasm for the Long Trail project (and hiking in general) at the turn of the century. These images chronicle the views and landscapes seen by early hikers of the Long Trail and provide an historical record of people associated with the Green Mountain Club’s formative years.
The images in this collection were captured by Green Mountain Club members Theron S. Dean and Herbert Wheaton Congdon, both of whom were early contributors to the trail’s development. Congdon surveyed and mapped a large portion of the early trail including a fifty mile stretch from Middlebury Gap to Bolton. Congdon, along with Leroy Little and Clarence Cowles, is also credited with the first winter ascent of Mount Mansfield on February 21, 1920. Dean is perhaps the most prolific documenter of the Long Trail’s development. Dean travelled throughout Vermont presenting slideshows and giving talks about the Long Trail, often to hundreds of people.
A number of the original lantern slides in this collection were used by Congdon and Dean in their Long Trail presentations. Dean in particular meticulously cultivated his lantern slide collection and displayed these slides during his many talks. These lantern slides were originally digitized by the Landscape Change Program at the University of Vermont. The original slides can be viewed in the Dean and Congdon collections at the University of Vermont Special Collections in the Bailey Howe Library. More information about the Long Trail can be obtained from the Green Mountain Club.
The slides were scanned by UVM's Landscape Change Program with the generous support of the National Science Foundation. The digitized photographs also appear in the image database at http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/.
Published: March 09, 2010, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Creator(s)
Place(s)
- Battell Shelter [13]
- Long Trail [13]
- Battell Trail [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- Mount Abraham [1]
- Mount Ellen [1]
Format(s)
- image [13]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [13]
- photographs [13]
- landscape photographs [5]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [13]
- Camping [7]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [2]
- Animals [1]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [1]
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Place: ("Battell Shelter")
Title: Battell Lodge and Breadloaf Mountain from Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Battell Lodge on Lincoln Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1914-07-01; 1914-07-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Battell Shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-08; 1917-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
A view of the Battell shelter from the North East.
Title: Bristol Gap and Lincoln Valley from the Battell Lodge - Adirondacks in the dim distance
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Completion of trail building at Battell Shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1917-08-31; 1917-08-31
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Lantern slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
Title: Connie Gilbert doing laundry at Battell Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1926; 1926
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Herbert Wheaton Congdon and men at the Battell Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1914; 1914
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
Title: Looking West toward Bristol from the Battell Lodge attic window
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-08; 1917-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Looking northwest from Battell Lodge at Ellen Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Picnic at the Battell Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: ; 1914-07-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are Mr. and Mrs. Chittenden, and Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, and one unidentified person.
Title: Professor Monroe at Battell Lodge (north side)
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-07-22; 1917-07-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: West from the Battell Lodge early in the morning
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: ; 1918-08-30
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: William Seymour Monroe at the Battell Shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-07-22; 1917-07-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Taken on a Sunday afternoon.
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