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)
- Dean, Theron S. [69]
- Perry, Mrs. [3]
- Eldred [1]
- KY, Mrs. [1]
- Lesage, Ernest R. [1]
- Puffer, Louis [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [69]
- Camels Hump [9]
- Battell Shelter [5]
- Nebraska Notch [5]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [4]
- Taft Lodge [4]
- Taylor Lodge [3]
- Barnes Camp [2]
- Bolton Mountain [2]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [2]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [2]
- Emily Proctor Shelter [2]
- Sucker Brook Shelter [2]
- Birch Glen Camp [1]
- Bolton Lodge [1]
- Carmel Camp [1]
- Laura Woodward Camp [1]
- Mount Abraham [1]
- Mount Ellen [1]
- Mount Mansfield [1]
- Pico Peak [1]
- Smugglers Notch [1]
- Spring Lake [1]
Format(s)
- image [69]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [69]
- photographs [69]
- landscape photographs [4]
Topic(s)
- Camping [69]
- Hiking [69]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [7]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [6]
- Children [3]
- Puffer, Louis [1]
- Robbins, Catherine [1]
- Smith, Leverett [1]
- Surveying Instruments [1]
- Waterfalls [1]
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Place: ("Long Trail")
Topic: ("Camping")
Author: ("Dean, Theron S.")
Title: Glen Ellen Lodge with Mount Ellen in the background
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1931-08-03; 1931-08-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
One of the men pictured may be Joseph Battell.
Title: Herbert Wheaton Congdon at Cooley Glen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Hiking party camp cooking
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1933-06-18; 1933-06-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: In Montclair Glen Shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-06; 1935-08-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Irving G. Goulet at ease in Nebraska Notch
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-08-22; 1917-08-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: John L. Sewall at Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) Cabin
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1921; 1921
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Sign on cabin reads "Camels Hump Club." "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Laura Woodward Camp - 1.3 miles North of Jay Peak
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1933-06; 1933-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Lesage and his bride on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Lesage, Ernest R.
Date: 1918; 1918
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
In the background is the North Hut on Couching Lion. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump. Negative done by Lesage, coloring done by "K" in February of 1929.
Title: Lesage party's tent in Nebraska Notch
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-08-22; 1917-08-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Lodge in the Mount Mansfield Region
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1926?; 1926?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The only readable sign on the marker pole reads: "Bread Loaf Inn 2."
Title: Long Trail Lodge and Pico looking south from Deer's Leap
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1929-09-28; 1929-09-28
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Looking south from Breadloaf Glen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-09-01; 1918-09-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Madeleine Diehl and Laddie
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Man outside of Glen Ellen Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Man sitting in front of a cabin
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Mellinger H. Henry of Dickinson Heights Jersey City at Glen Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; KY, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide colored by "Mrs. KY" in 1929.
Title: Mellinger H. Henry of Dickinson Heights Jersey City at Glen Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Men around a lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Miss Wheelers' tent in Nebraska Notch
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Monroe at Emily Proctor Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-09-03; 1918-09-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Montclair Glen Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1922-10-01; 1922-10-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on April 1, 1929.
Title: Montclair Glen Shelter - 7.9 miles from Birch Glen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-05; 1935-08-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: New Barnes Camp
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1927; 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: North Hut on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The words on the shelter read: "1912 Camels Hump Club." "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Party assembled in front of a shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920-08-08; 1920-08-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are (from left to right): Captain Herbert Wheaton Congdon, a boy with Congdon, Professor William Seymour Monroe, Miss Monroe, Miss Mabel Brownwell, Colonel Whittlesey, Colonel Whittlesey's friend.
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