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 [5]
- Dean, Theron S. [5]
- Perry, Mrs. [1]
- Prior [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [10]
- Birch Glen Camp [2]
- Mount Mansfield [1]
- Smugglers Notch [1]
- Sterling Pond [1]
- Town of Bolton [1]
Format(s)
- image [10]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [10]
- photographs [10]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [10]
- Surveying Instruments [10]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [7]
- Smith, Leverett [3]
- Camping [2]
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Topic: ("Surveying Instruments")
Title: At Birch Glen Camp
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1916-09; 1916-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are Olden Paris, Theron S. Dean, and William Seymour Monroe drying out after a storm.
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 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: Dean and measuring wheel
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.; Prior
Date: 1916-09; 1916-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Negative possibly by Prior. Photo possibly taken near Birch Glen. Colored by Mrs. Perry in March 1929.
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919?; 1919?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Lyman Burnham and measuring wheel at Hanksville-Fayston pass
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1917-09; 1917-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
A sign affixed to a tree in the center of the image reads “Fayston-Huntington Pass” and a trail marker below points the way to Birch Lodge. The numbers 22172 have been carved into the trunk of the tree.
Title: Plane table
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The man pictured is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
Title: Trail North from the Lincoln-Warren Pass
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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