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 [4]
- Dean, Theron S. [3]
- Brehmer [1]
- Fuller, Clayton [1]
- Joslin [1]
- Perry, Mrs. [1]
- Richardson [1]
- Standard Slide Corp. [1]
- Thurston, John H. [1]
Place(s)
- Jay Peak [11]
- Long Trail [9]
- Town of Johnson [2]
- Belvidere Mountain [1]
- Smugglers Notch [1]
Format(s)
- image [11]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [11]
- photographs [11]
- landscape photographs [6]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [9]
- Children [2]
- Animals [1]
- Kurth, Hilda [1]
- Norris, Kathleen [1]
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Place: ("Jay Peak")
Title: Baby fox near Jay Peak
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1927-08-26; 1927-08-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Big Jay, Little Jay, and Jay
Creator: Fuller, Clayton; Brehmer
Date: 1932; 1932
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
In the foreground is Little Jay (3,202 feet). Behind and over it is Big Jay (3,800 feet). Behind it is Jay (3,861 feet). Slide made by Brehmer in June 1932.
Title: James P. Taylor on route to Jay Peak
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1927-06-25; 1927-06-25
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Jay Peak
Creator: Thurston, John H.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Jay Peak - apple blossoms in June
Creator: Richardson; Standard Slide Corp.; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Photo attributed to Mr. Richardson of Newport, Vermont. Negative and slide done by Standard Slide Corp. - 209 W. 48th NYC. Colored by Mrs Perry in February of 1929. Copyrighted negative.
Title: Jay Peak from Little Jay
Creator: Joslin
Date: 1933; 1933
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Jay Peak, Belvidere Mountain, and Smugglers' Notch from the road near Mount Mansfield's nose
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Norris, Robbins, and Kurth on the Long Trail north to Jay Peak
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured from left to right are: Kathleen Norris, Catherine Robbins, and Hilda Kurth. They were known as the "Three Musketeers." Miss Robbins and Hilda Kurth were teachers, and Miss Robbins attended Middlebury College. These three were the first women to hike the entirety of the Long Trail. They covered 280 miles in 27 days. The sign behind them reads, "Long Trail North to Jay Peak."
Title: Reverend F.M. Hazen and children of Johnson, VT - Jay Peak in the background
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Reverend F.M. Hazen and children of Johnson, VT - Jay Peak in the background
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: View of ponds from Jay Peak
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1927-04-15; 1927-04-15
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
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