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)
- Dean, Theron S. [19]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965 [3]
- Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867 [2]
- Grahme, Malcolm [2]
- Wilkinson, Robert [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [26]
- Mount Ellen [26]
- Mount Abraham [9]
- Lincoln Mountain [4]
- Lincoln Peak [3]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [2]
- Stark Mountain [2]
- Town of Warren [2]
- Battell Shelter [1]
- Burnt Rock Mountain [1]
- Town of Bristol [1]
- Town of Starksboro [1]
Format(s)
- image [26]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [26]
- photographs [26]
- landscape photographs [17]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [26]
- Animals [2]
- Burnham, Lyman [2]
- Camping [2]
- Bliss, Fred [1]
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Place: ("Mount Ellen")
Title: At the base of Mount Ellen: 4 A.M start
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This winter expedition is getting an early morning start at 4 A.M.
Title: Bristol Gap from a Mount Ellen cabin in summer
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Glen Ellen Lodge with Mount Ellen in the background
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1931-08-03; 1931-08-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
One of the men pictured may be Joseph Battell.
Title: Lincoln Mountain and Mount Ellen looking North from Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-03; 1935-08-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Lincoln Peak and Mount Ellen from the summit of Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-09; 1917-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This slide consists of two pictures taken by Allen Chamberlain and put together. The original photograph was taken from the summit of Mount Abraham. At right is Lincoln Peak (1 mile away) and at left is Mount Ellen (3.5 miles away).
Title: Lincoln Peak and Mount Ellen from the summit of Mount Abraham
Creator: Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867
Date: 1917-09-22; 1917-09-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This slide consists of two pictures taken by Allen Chamberlain and put together. The original photograph was taken from the summit of Mount Abraham. At right is Lincoln Peak (1 mile away) and at left is Mount Ellen (3.5 miles away).
Title: Lincoln Peak and Mount Ellen from the summit of Mount Abraham
Creator: Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This slide consists of two pictures taken by Allen Chamberlain and put together. The original photograph was taken from the summit of Mount Abraham. At right is Lincoln Peak (1 mile away) and at left is Mount Ellen (3.5 miles away).
Title: Long Trail sign nailed to spruce on Mount Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
See photos deanb01088 and deanb01089 for other views of this sign.
Title: Long Trail sign nailed to spruce on Mount Ellen
Creator: Grahme, Malcolm
Date: 1917-10-07; 1917-10-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
For other views of this sign, see photos deanb01087 and deanb01089.
Title: Long trail sign nailed to snow-tipped spruce on Mount Ellen
Creator: Grahme, Malcolm
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
For other views of this sign, see photos deanb01087 and deanb01088.
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: Looking South from Mount Ellen at the north peak of Lincoln Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
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: Lyman Burnham and Captain Congdon looking north from Mount Abraham to Mount Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918; 1918
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Lyman Burnham looking North from Mount Abraham at Mount Ellen and General Stark Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-08-29; 1918-08-29
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Ellen Cabin
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-09; 1918-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This image was taken 0.5 miles from the summit of Mount Ellen.
Title: Mount Ellen from "Potato Hill" (Mount Abraham) - looking towards Monkton Ridge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Potato Hill" was the former name for Mount Abraham.
Title: Mount Ellen from Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Photo taken in Starksboro, Vermont.
Title: Mount Ellen trees covered with frost
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The photographer notes that these trees are not covered with snow, but rather with a very heavy frost.
Title: Mountain view from Warren, Vermont
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original photograph identifies the mountain in this image as either "Mt. Abraham or Ellen Mt. or Lincoln Mt."
Title: Red Crossbill at Mount Ellen
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1922-08; 1922-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this image is Fred Bliss.
Title: South from Mount Ellen looking toward Bread Loaf Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Negative and slide by Robert Wilkinson.
Title: Southeast view from Mount Ellen overlooking Warren
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Southerly winter view from Mount Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Tip of frosted balsam and Long Trail sign on Lincoln Mountain near Mount Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-10-07; 1917-10-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original title included the names Miss Goodell and Jess Farrete. Their role in the creation of the slide was not given.
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