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: 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.
Title: Professor Monroe at Battell Lodge (north side)
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-07-22; 1917-07-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Taft Lodge in Summer
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-09; 1935-08-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Taylor Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Taylor Lodge and Twitchell
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Colored by Mrs. Perry in March of 1929.
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: 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: 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 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: 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 women camping on the trail
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1926-02-24; 1926-02-24
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: 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.
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