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
Rights: Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the UVM Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives at cdi@uvm.edu. For more information, see http://cdi.uvm.edu/about/rights. More information.
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Creator(s)
- Wilkinson, Robert [17]
- Dean, Theron S. [2]
- Perry, Mrs. [2]
- Hanston [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [16]
- Mount Mansfield [8]
- Camels Hump [4]
- Bolton Lodge [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- Middlesex Center [1]
- Mount Ellen [1]
- Town of Huntington [1]
- Town of Stowe [1]
Format(s)
- image [17]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [17]
- photographs [17]
- landscape photographs [13]
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Author: ("Wilkinson, Robert")
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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: Camel's Hump from Middlesex Center
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Date: 1921-02-17; 1921-02-17
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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: Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the East
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) looking west from the summit
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump. The original slides notes the shadow of Camels Hump over Huntington, Vermont at morning.
Title: Men with horse and buggy
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original image image contains a note stating that the original image is from Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier, Vermont.
Title: Mount Mansfield - church steeple in foreground
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original image image contains a note stating that the original image is from Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier, Vermont.
Title: Mount Mansfield from Stowe
Creator: Hanston; Wilkinson, Robert; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Photo attributed to either Hanston or Robert W. Wilkinson. It was most likely colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
Title: Mount Mansfield nose and Summit House from the northwest
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
In this image, the Mount Mansfield Summit House can be seen from a distance. This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel." Recolored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
Title: Shattuck Lodge
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original image image contains a note stating that the original image is from Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier, Vermont.
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: Summit House Hotel and chin of Mount Mansfield from the South
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Date: 1926-05-06; 1926-05-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Sunset over Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the East
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Date: 1926-05-06; 1926-05-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Sunset view of Mount Mansfield from the East
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Date: 1926-05-06; 1926-05-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Both the slide and coloring were done by Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier.
Title: Tall tree and mountains
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original image image contains a note stating that the original image is from Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier, Vermont.
Title: Tree and mountains
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original image image contains a note stating that the original image is from Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier, Vermont.
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