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 [459]
- Puffer, Louis [6]
- Perry, Mrs. [2]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [435]
- Mount Mansfield [69]
- Camels Hump [64]
- Smugglers Notch [15]
- Burnt Rock Mountain [12]
- Town of Bolton [11]
- Mount Abraham [8]
- Taft Lodge [8]
- Pico Peak [7]
- Stark Mountain [7]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [6]
- Emily Proctor Shelter [6]
- Killington Peak [6]
- Bolton Mountain [5]
- Barnes Camp [4]
- Birch Glen Camp [4]
- Bromley Mountain [4]
- Carmel Camp [4]
- Jay Peak [4]
- Lake of the Clouds [4]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [4]
- Mount Ethan Allen [4]
- Sterling Pond [4]
- Jeffersonville [3]
- Lake Mansfield [3]
- Mount Ellen [3]
- Mount Horrid [3]
- Pleiad Shelter [3]
- White Rocks [3]
- Winooski River [3]
- Battell Shelter [2]
- Beaver Meadow [2]
- Bourn Pond [2]
- Boyce Shelter [2]
- City of Burlington [2]
- Hell Hollow Brook [2]
- Joiner Brook [2]
- Lincoln Gap [2]
- Madonna Peak [2]
- Middlebury Gap [2]
- Morses Mill [2]
- Mount Carmel [2]
- Mount Ira Allen [2]
- Nebraska Notch [2]
- Noyes Pond [2]
- Pleiad Lake [2]
- Prospect Rock [2]
- Ritterbush Camp [2]
- Round Top [2]
- Sherburne Pass [2]
- Stratton Mountain [2]
- Three Shanties Brook [2]
- Town of Shrewsbury [2]
- Town of Underhill [2]
- Belvidere Mountain [1]
- Big Spring [1]
- Bingham Falls [1]
- Bolton Lodge [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- Button Hill [1]
- Chilcoot Pass [1]
- Chittenden Reservoir [1]
- Clarendon Gorge [1]
- Cowles Cove Shelter [1]
- Dorset Mountain [1]
- Downer Glen [1]
- Elephants Head [1]
- Fay Fuller Camp [1]
- Green Mountain [1]
- Griffith Shelter [1]
- Haystack Mountain [1]
- Journeys End Camp [1]
- Little Rock Pond [1]
- Mendon Peak [1]
- Molly Stark Mountain [1]
- Molly Stark Trail [1]
- Moulds Lodge [1]
- Mount Grant [1]
- Mount Roosevelt [1]
- Mount Wilson [1]
- North Pond [1]
- Pico Pond [1]
- Ritterbush Pond [1]
- Somerset Reservoir [1]
- Sterling Range [1]
- Stratton Pond [1]
- Styles Peak [1]
- Sucker Brook Shelter [1]
- Taylor Lodge [1]
- Town of Bennington [1]
- Town of Bristol [1]
- Town of Goshen [1]
- Town of Huntington [1]
- Town of Johnson [1]
- Town of Killington [1]
- Town of Wallingford [1]
- Town of Woodstock [1]
Format(s)
- image [459]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [459]
- photographs [459]
- landscape photographs [198]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [418]
- Camping [86]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [39]
- Smith, Leverett [30]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [16]
- Farms [6]
- Boats and boating [5]
- Gilbert, Connie [5]
- Olney, Ward [5]
- Surveying Instruments [5]
- Waterfalls [5]
- Bridges [4]
- Farmhouses [4]
- Children [3]
- Cows [2]
- Dean, Theron S. [2]
- Horses [2]
- Puffer, Louis [2]
- Barns [1]
- Bliss, Fred [1]
- Flood damage [1]
- Hotels [1]
- Kurth, Hilda [1]
- Norris, Kathleen [1]
- Robbins, Catherine [1]
- Taylor, James P. [1]
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Title: "Beauty and the Beast" - Pete and Mrs. ? at the Camel's Hump Club Hut
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919; 1919
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
Title: "Bridge" over a stream
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: "Stub" Mould on Whiteface Mountain from trail over White Rocks
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-10-01; 1921-10-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: A bad bit of blowdown
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965; Puffer, Louis
Date: 1919; 1919
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide negative done by Puffer.
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Adirondacks from the hill south of Shrewsbury Pond
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Alex putting out a fire at Camp Necessity
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1922?; 1922
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: Alice Dean and Professor Monroe on rock summit
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Alice Dean is on the far left and Professor Monroe is at center. No one else can be identified in this image.
Title: Andy R. Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1929-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Photo taken by Andy's father, Professor R.O. Buchanan of Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Approach to Birch Lodge from the North
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919; 1919
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Approach to Cooley Glen from the South
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
Title: At the foot of zig-zags on General Stark Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Automobile on dirt road
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: Baker's Notch and Mount Ethan Allen from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) trail
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Baker's Notch at the fork
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Bare trees and mountain range
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1940; 1940
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
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: Bennington Battle Monument
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1926-05-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?).
Title: Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1926-05-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?).
Title: Bingham Falls - lower Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
Title: Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1917-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The sign reads "Birch Glen 3 m." and has a G.M.C. (Green Mountain Club) marking.
Title: Birch Lodge from the trail to Beane's Farm
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1917-08; 1917-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Birds and William Seymour Monroe
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original title identifies these birds as "Clarksonias," although this name does not appear to be common.
Title: Bolton Ferry
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Bolton Ferry looking North
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1922-08-09; 1922-08-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
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