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 [69]
- Dean, Theron S. [32]
- Wilkinson, Robert [8]
- Perry, Mrs. [7]
- Puffer, Louis [5]
- Cowles, Clarence P. [2]
- Clark, Byron [1]
- Hanston [1]
- Holmes [1]
- Houston [1]
- Johnson, Eric [1]
- Morton [1]
- Richardson [1]
- Wilhiamson [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [118]
- Mount Mansfield [118]
- Camels Hump [6]
- Lake of the Clouds [5]
- Bolton Mountain [4]
- Smugglers Notch [3]
- Taft Lodge [3]
- Town of Stowe [3]
- Town of Underhill [3]
- Barnes Camp [2]
- Madonna Peak [2]
- Nebraska Notch [2]
- Bolton Lodge [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- Jeffersonville [1]
- Sterling Pond [1]
- Sterling Range [1]
Format(s)
- image [118]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [118]
- photographs [118]
- landscape photographs [82]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [118]
- Smith, Leverett [13]
- Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter)1875-1963 [7]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [6]
- Camping [4]
- Dean, Theron S. [1]
- Surveying Instruments [1]
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Place: ("Mount Mansfield")
Title: Bolton Mountain and Mansfield from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) in Duxbury, Vermont
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Bolton Mountain and Mount Mansfield from Camel's Hump
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
Title: C.J. Badgley and Burtis Dean on the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1920-06-05; 1920-06-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are: Mr. C. J. Badgley from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. - age 75 and and Burtis Dean - age 9. Negative done by Dean on Monday, August 2, 1920. Colored by Mrs. Perry.
Title: Cave of the Winds
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Cave of the Winds
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Cave of the Winds on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-12; 1920-08-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured is Leverett Smith.
Title: Chin of the Mount Mansfield Summit
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are: Leverett Smith, Mr. Smith, Leach, and Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
Title: Cliffs on Mount Mansfield's Forehead Trail - second terrace
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Cliffs on the Underhill Trail to Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1915; 1915
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Clouds along the spine of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Congdon and Leverett Smith on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Congdon looking South from the eyebrow on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-17; 1920-08-17
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Congdon, Cowles and Little at lunch at the foot of Dead Horse Hill on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-20; 1920-02-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Cowles above Lookout Bluff on the Taft Trail to Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-21; 1920-02-21
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Cowles and L.L. Little going up the north side of the chin on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-21; 1920-02-21
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Cowles and Little climbing the Taft Trail - Mount Madonna in the distance
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-20; 1920-02-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Cowles and Little on Lake of the Clouds
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-21; 1920-02-21
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The chin of Mount Mansfield appears in the background.
Title: Dead trees on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Clark, Byron; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Negative colored by Mrs. Perry.
Title: Deer on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: East side of Mount Mansfield under the trail to the chin
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-22; 1920-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this photograph are Little and Cowles.
Title: Elihu B. Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Cowles, Clarence P.
Date: 1919?; 1919
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The two men in the image are not identified. Photograph taken from the front approach to the lodge.
Title: Field and Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1929-02-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Going up the Needle's Eye on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-09; 1935-08-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Lake of the Clouds from Mount Mansfield's Adam's apple
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Lake of the Clouds from the Mount Mansfield Adam's apple
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-12; 1920-08-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
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