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)
- Dean, Theron S. [15]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965 [5]
- Perry, Mrs. [3]
- Bliss, J. Isham [1]
- Dunsmoor, Ralph W. [1]
Place(s)
- Bolton Mountain [23]
- Long Trail [23]
- Camels Hump [7]
- Mount Mansfield [4]
- Round Top [1]
- Town of Bolton [1]
Format(s)
- image [23]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [23]
- photographs [23]
- landscape photographs [13]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [23]
- Camping [2]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [2]
- Animals [1]
- Children [1]
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Topic: ("Hiking")
Place: ("Bolton Mountain")
Title: 30 foot steel tower on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dunsmoor, Ralph W.
Date: 1921; 1921
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: 30 foot tower on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1921; 1921
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Bolton Long Trail sign, looking East at Bolton
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1923-05-23; 1923-05-23
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The sign in this image reads: " A footpath in the wilderness Long Trail." Milemarkers attached to the sign read: "Killington 82 M, Camel's Hump 4.5 M, Massachusetts State Line 181.6 M, Montclair Glen 6.5 M, Lincoln Mt. 25.8, Dunsmoor Lodge 5.6 M, Summit Bolton Mt. 6.7 M, Lake Mansfield 9.8 M, Summit 15.4 M, Mt. Mansfield Taft Lodge 17.2 M." The negative was made by Theron Dean on May 6, 1923 and it was colored by Mrs. Perry on February of 1929.
Title: Bolton Mountain Tower
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1921; 1921
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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 Window
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1925; 1925
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
Title: Camel's Hump from a ruined mill clearing near Dunsmoor Lodge on Bolton
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-24; 1920-08-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The person in the image is not identified. Camel's Hump was also referred to as "Couching Lion."
Title: Camel's Hump from lookout north of Dunsmoor Lodge on Bolton Mountain
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: Camp 4 on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The sign in the middle of the image reads "Trout Club" and points to the right.
Title: Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from a Bolton Mountain trail
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-07; 1917-07
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) from a tree on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: ; 1921-10-24
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) from the top of Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1921-10-24; 1921-10-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Original title cites "Dunsmoor and Dean" most likely referring to the Dunsmoor Lodge. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Couching Lion from Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-07-28; 1917-07-28
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Looking south under a birch - 0.5 miles above Dunsmoor Lodge on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Mansfield from Bolton Tower
Creator: Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
Title: Mount Mansfield from a lookout on the north side of Bolton Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Mansfield from a tree on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Rabbit on Bolton Trail
Creator: Bliss, J. Isham
Date: 1915-01-02; 1915-01-02
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Round Top and Bolton Mountain looking South from the Mount Mansfield forehead
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Tower on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935?; 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Trail on the north slope of Bolton Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: William Habada and Professor Monroe at the Bolton Skyline
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1925; 1925
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: William Seymour Monroe and Eugene Berry at Shelter Rock, Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-07-19; 1917-07-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Eugene Berry lived in Essex Jct., VT.
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