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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- Long Trail [50]
- Mount Mansfield [6]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [4]
- Mount Abraham [4]
- Camels Hump [2]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [2]
- Town of Bolton [2]
- Battell Shelter [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- Lake Mansfield [1]
- Lincoln Gap [1]
- Mount Ellen [1]
- Mount Grant [1]
- Nebraska Notch [1]
- Smugglers Notch [1]
- Sterling Pond [1]
- Town of Shrewsbury [1]
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- lantern slides [50]
- photographs [50]
- landscape photographs [10]
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- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [50]
- Hiking [49]
- Camping [15]
- Smith, Leverett [8]
- Surveying Instruments [7]
- Burnham, Lyman [1]
- Dean, Theron S. [1]
- Gilbert, Connie [1]
- Taylor, James P. [1]
- Waterfalls [1]
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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: Camel's Hump Club Huts
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Identified in the photograph are (from left to right) Parmelee and Herbert Wheaton Congdon. The woman to the right is unidentified. Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
Title: Captain Congdon and Leverett Smith at Huntley's in Bolton
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
An original note states the Mrs. Huntley's was a "very popular overnight boarding house for hikers."
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: 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 and men around a campfire
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: Congdon and men around a formal table
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: Congdon and surveying wheel at Dunsmoor Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920-08-24; 1920-08-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Congdon and surveying wheel at Dunsmoor Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-24; 1920-08-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Congdon at the falls between Forest City and Montclair Glen
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Congdon at trail marker
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1914; 1914
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The man on the right appears to be Herbert Wheaton Congdon. 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: Congdon looking South from Mount Abraham at 7 a.m.
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-09; 1918-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Bread Loaf Mountain is visible above the cloud.
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 looking out at Camel's Hump and Bolton Valley from Dunsmoor Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
Title: Congdon looking out over a 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: Congdon lookout - Mount Abraham from Mount Ulysses Grant
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-08; 1918-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured are Herbert Wheaton Congdon and Allen Smith.
Title: Congdon's patrol at a deserted lumber camp near Lake Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1914-09-08; 1914-09-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920-08-08; 1920-08-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Cooley Glen from trail to spring
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The person carrying water to the far right of the photograph is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
Title: Glen Ellen Lodge from the North
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are: George Parmelee, Herbert Wheaton Congdon, Gilbert Smith and Leverett Smith (ages 14 and 12).
Title: Glen Ellen Lodge from the North
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are: George Parmelee, Herbert Wheaton Congdon, Gilbert Smith and Leverett Smith (ages 14 and 12).
Title: Guardsmen taking a break along the trail
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. The man standing in this photo may be Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
Title: Herbert Wheaton Congdon and Leverett T. Smith carrying Poirier packs
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Herbert Wheaton Congdon and men at the Battell Lodge
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.
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