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)
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965 [12]
- Dean, Theron S. [3]
- Perry, Mrs. [3]
- Charles Beseler Co. [1]
Place(s)
- Burnt Rock Mountain [15]
- Long Trail [15]
- Camels Hump [1]
- Mount Ellen [1]
- Mount Ira Allen [1]
- Stark Mountain [1]
- Town of Duxbury [1]
Format(s)
- image [15]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [15]
- photographs [15]
- landscape photographs [6]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [15]
- Burnham, Lyman [2]
- Gilbert, Connie [1]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [1]
- Smith, Gilbert [1]
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Place: ("Burnt Rock Mountain")
Title: Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The person in this photograph is identified as "Skidmore Geo. Parmelee."
Title: Burnt Rock Mountain from the South
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1917-09; 1917-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Burnt Rock Mountain from the first knoll and Mount Ira Allen in the distance
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-09; 1918-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The person pictured here is identified as Parmelee.
Title: Descending Burnt Rock
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide recolored by Mrs. Perry in March 1929.
Title: Helen Jones and Connie Gilbert on Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1926-08; 1926-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Jack Frey looking North from Burnt Rock
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1918-08; 1918-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Colored by either Congdon or Mrs. Perry.
Title: Ladder Ravine on Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Looking South from Burnt Rock Mountain at Mount Ellen and General Stark Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-08; 1918-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured in this photograph are: Allen Smith, Gilbert Smith, and Henry Freu.
Title: Lyman Burnham approaching the Oldin Paris Gallery on Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1917-09; 1917-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Lyman Burnham climbing the ladder on Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1917-09; 1917-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Monroe and Farr on Burnt Rock
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Charles Beseler Co.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1920?; 1920
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Slide made and colored by Beseler Co. and recolored by Mrs. Perry in March, 1929.
Title: Parmelee on the south face of Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Signs at the north end of the Monroe Skyline Trail
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Signs read: "Burnt Rock Mt. / Fayston Pass," "Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)," "Callahan's / No. Duxbury," and "The Monroe Skyline Trail."
Title: Southeast from Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1930-12-10; 1930-12-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Trail clearing south of Burnt Rock Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1916; 1916
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The men in this image are unidentified.
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