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)
Place(s)
- Long Trail [17]
- Mount Mansfield [7]
- Smugglers Notch [2]
- Battell Shelter [1]
- Big Spring [1]
- Cowles Cove Shelter [1]
- Jerusalem [1]
- Lake of the Clouds [1]
- Madonna Peak [1]
- Molly Stark Mountain [1]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [1]
- Stark Mountain [1]
- Taft Lodge [1]
Format(s)
- image [18]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [18]
- photographs [18]
- landscape photographs [3]
Topic(s)
- Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter)1875-1963 [18]
- Hiking [17]
- Camping [6]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [2]
- Dean, Theron S. [1]
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Topic: ("Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter)1875-1963")
Title: Burtis, Cowles, Mr. Badgley (?) and Chris at Taft Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1920-08-02; 1920-08-02
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original title states that this was image was colored by Mrs. Perry in 1924 or 1926.
Title: Clarence Cowles looking at the White Mountains from Molly Stark Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-02-18; 1917-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Clarence P. Cowles on Stark Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1917-02-18; 1917-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original title states that Mr. Cowles is from Burlington, Vermont.
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 Cove Shelter
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
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 in camp at Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920-02-22; 1920-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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: Cowles building a lunch fire at Big Spring
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-22; 1920-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Cowles in a rail road train
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-20; 1920-02-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Cowles leaving Jerusalem for Glen Ellen - 8.5 miles Northeast of Bristol
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-02-17; 1917-02-17
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: Looking South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-22; 1920-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this photograph is Clarence P. Cowles.
Title: Montclair Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-08; 1919-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this image are (from left to right): Gilbert Smith, Allen Smith, Theron Dean, Professor William Seymour Monroe, Miss Monroe, Herbert W. Congdon, Smith, Unknown, James P. Taylor, and Clarence P. Cowles.
Title: Picnic at the Battell Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: ; 1914-07-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are Mr. and Mrs. Chittenden, and Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, and one unidentified person.
Title: Smugglers' Notch rock against which we camped
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-20; 1920-02-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this photo is Clarence P. Cowles.
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