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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Place: ("Long Trail")
Topic: ("Camping")
Place: ("Long Trail")
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: Tent near boulders
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: The Bride: Mrs. LeSage on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918; 1918
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: The building of Sucker Brook Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original title identifies "Voter" but does not identify the second man pictured.
Title: The nose of Mount Mansfield from the Elihu B. Taft Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Theron Dean Shelter
Creator: Monroe, William Seymour
Date: ; 1926
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The original photograph notes that it came from a print someone gave to Professor Monroe.
Title: Three Jacksons at Montclair Glen Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1926-09-19; 1926-09-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Three Musketeers and music
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are (from left to right): Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth, and Kathleen Norris. Miss Robbins and Hilda Kurth were teachers, and Miss Robbins attended Middlebury College. These three were the first women to hike the entirety of the Long Trail. They covered 280 miles in 27 days.
Title: Three Shanties Camp looking southwest from the trail
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The person in this image is unidentified.
Title: Three men at Taylor Lodge in Nebraska Notch
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-08; 1935-08-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
There are four directional signs attached to the tree in this image. Those that are legible read “Bolton Lodge” and “Mansfield Mountain [???] Lodge.”
Title: Three men eating outside Glen Ellen Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Three young people in front of a lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The three young people in this image are not identified.
Title: Tin huts on Camel's Hump
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919?; 1919?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
Title: Trustees of the Green Mountain Club at Shrewsbury Pond (Spring Lake)
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1921-03-12; 1921-03-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
"Shrewsbury Pond" is former name for Spring Lake in the Town of Shrewsbury.
Title: Two adults and a child outside a lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Two women camping on the trail
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1926-02-24; 1926-02-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Unidentified cabin
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Unidentified lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Voter and party in camp laying rills for the Sucker Brook Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Ward Olney and Leverett Smith washing dishes at Carmel Camp
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: White and Dean on Killington
Creator: Voter; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1922-03-12; 1922-03-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This image is thought to be on Killington, however, "(?)" was included in the original title. The sign in the image reads, "Notice: Please read the rules." The slide was colored by Mrs. Perry in 1924 or 1926.
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.
Title: William Seymour Monroe at Proctor Shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-08; 1918-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Monroe is here pictured with packs and wheel at the Proctor Lodge.
Title: William Seymour Monroe at the Battell Shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-07-22; 1917-07-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Taken on a Sunday afternoon.
Title: Wooded campsite
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1914; 1914
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
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