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 [85]
- Dean, Theron S. [69]
- Perry, Mrs. [8]
- Johnson, Eric [7]
- Puffer, Louis [7]
- Clark [2]
- Eldred [2]
- Lesage, Ernest R. [2]
- Buchanan, R.O. [1]
- Cooley [1]
- Cowles, Clarence P. [1]
- Field, W.H. [1]
- Hilton [1]
- Joslin [1]
- KY, Mrs. [1]
- Lye, Miss [1]
- Monroe, William Seymour [1]
- Muller [1]
- Taylor, H.C. [1]
- Taylor, James P. [1]
- Tuitehall, E.Y. [1]
- Voter [1]
- Wilkinson, Robert [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [180]
- Camels Hump [14]
- Taft Lodge [13]
- Emily Proctor Shelter [9]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [8]
- Taylor Lodge [8]
- Battell Shelter [7]
- Killington Peak [6]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [6]
- Birch Glen Camp [5]
- Carmel Camp [5]
- Nebraska Notch [5]
- Mount Mansfield [4]
- Pleiad Shelter [4]
- Smugglers Notch [4]
- Bolton Lodge [3]
- Ritterbush Camp [3]
- Sucker Brook Shelter [3]
- Barnes Camp [2]
- Bolton Mountain [2]
- Boyce Shelter [2]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [2]
- Mount Ellen [2]
- Three Shanties Brook [2]
- Beaver Meadow [1]
- Big Spring [1]
- Bourn Pond [1]
- City of Rutland [1]
- Cowles Cove Shelter [1]
- Fay Fuller Camp [1]
- Glastenbury Camp [1]
- Journeys End Camp [1]
- Laura Woodward Camp [1]
- Moulds Lodge [1]
- Mount Abraham [1]
- Noyes Pond [1]
- Parker Camp [1]
- Pico Peak [1]
- Prospect Rock [1]
- Sherburne Pass [1]
- Spring Lake [1]
- Theron Dean Shelter [1]
- Town of Bennington [1]
- Town of Glastenbury [1]
Format(s)
- image [180]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [180]
- photographs [180]
- landscape photographs [6]
Topic(s)
- Camping [180]
- Hiking [180]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [15]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [10]
- Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter)1875-1963 [6]
- Burnham, Rogers [2]
- Dean, Theron S. [2]
- Gilbert, Connie [2]
- Surveying Instruments [2]
- Waterfalls [2]
- Kurth, Hilda [1]
- Norris, Kathleen [1]
- Olney, Ward [1]
- Puffer, Louis [1]
- Robbins, Catherine [1]
- Taylor, James P. [1]
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"Beauty and the Beast" - Pete and M... -
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Alex putting out a fire at Camp Nec... -
Alice Dean at Taft Lodge -
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Boyce Lodge -
Bringing roofing in to Glen Ellen L... -
Burtis, Cowles, Mr. Badgley (?) and... -
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Camp 4 on Bolton Mountain