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 [11]
- Lincoln Gap [2]
- Burnt Rock Mountain [1]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [1]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [1]
- Mount Ellen [1]
- Mount Wilson [1]
- Pleiad Shelter [1]
- Stark Mountain [1]
Format(s)
- image [11]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [11]
- photographs [11]
- landscape photographs [1]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [11]
- Smith, Gilbert [11]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [6]
- Camping [5]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [2]
- Taylor, James P. [1]
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Title: Davidson, Miss Cooley, Allen Smith, Professor Monroe, Gilbert Smith at a work party on Mount Wilson
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-08; 1918-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Gallery south of the Lincoln-Warren Pass
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-09; 1918-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are Allen and Gilbert Smith.
Title: Gilbert Smith at Glen Ellen
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The signs in this image read “Battell Lodge 6 m. GMC” and “Birch Glen Lodge, 5 ½ m. GMC.”
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: Harold Snyder, Gilbert, and Kent Smith leaving from Lake Pleiad Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-07-31; 1921-07-31
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Lincoln - Warren Pass looking North
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919?; 1919?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this image are Herbert W. Congdon and Gilbert Smith. The Lincoln-Warren Pass is also called "Lincoln Gap" or "Lincoln-Warren Gap."
Title: Looking South from Burnt Rock Mountain at Mount Ellen and General Stark Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-08; 1918-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured in this photograph are: Allen Smith, Gilbert Smith, and Henry Freu.
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: Tent in Cooley Glen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918?; 1918?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
A lodge was built in Cooley Glen in 1919. Pictured are Allen and Gilbert Smith, along with 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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