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. [22]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965 [8]
- Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867 [4]
- Perry, Mrs. [2]
- Charles Beseler Co. [1]
- Doe, Jessie [1]
- Voter [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [36]
- Mount Abraham [36]
- Mount Ellen [9]
- Lincoln Peak [5]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [3]
- Lincoln Mountain [3]
- Battell Shelter [1]
- Mount Grant [1]
- Stark Mountain [1]
- Town of Bristol [1]
- Town of Starksboro [1]
- Town of Warren [1]
Format(s)
- image [36]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [36]
- photographs [36]
- landscape photographs [32]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [36]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [4]
- Farmhouses [3]
- Burnham, Lyman [2]
- Chamberlain, Allenb. 1867 [2]
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Place: ("Mount Abraham")
Title: Lincoln Peak and Mount Ellen from the summit of Mount Abraham
Creator: Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This slide consists of two pictures taken by Allen Chamberlain and put together. The original photograph was taken from the summit of Mount Abraham. At right is Lincoln Peak (1 mile away) and at left is Mount Ellen (3.5 miles away).
Title: Lincoln Peak or Mount Abraham and Elden Atkins Farm
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original image was taken one hour after sunset.
Title: Lincoln Peak or Mount Abraham and Elden Atkins Farm
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original image was taken one hour after sunset.
Title: Lyman Burnham and Captain Congdon looking north from Mount Abraham to Mount Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918; 1918
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Lyman Burnham looking North from Mount Abraham at Mount Ellen and General Stark Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-08-29; 1918-08-29
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The caption on the photo reads "View at West Lincoln, VT - Potato Hill in the distance." "Potato Hill" was the former name for Mount Abraham.
Title: Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1924; 1924
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Abraham and Eldore Atkins house from the West
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1917; 1917
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Abraham from cliff panorama
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-09; 1918-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Abraham from the South
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Abraham from the South
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1929-02-01; 1929-02-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Abraham from the West
Creator: Charles Beseler Co.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Ellen from "Potato Hill" (Mount Abraham) - looking towards Monkton Ridge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Potato Hill" was the former name for Mount Abraham.
Title: Mount Ellen from Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Photo taken in Starksboro, Vermont.
Title: Mountain view from Warren, Vermont
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original photograph identifies the mountain in this image as either "Mt. Abraham or Ellen Mt. or Lincoln Mt."
Title: Mule and Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1917-08-31; 1917-08-31
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This slide is looking east at "Potato Hill" (the former name for Mount Abraham). Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
Title: Northeast from the top of Mount Abraham
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Potato Hill from Bristol
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The caption inscribed on the photo reads, "Potato Hill from Bristol, VT." "Potato Hill" is the former name for Mount Abraham.
Title: South view from Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Southerly view from Mount Abraham: September 22, 1918
Creator: Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867
Date: 1918-09-22; 1918-09-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Summit of Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-08; 1918-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Tucker party on Mount Abraham
Creator: Doe, Jessie; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1920; 1920
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Colored by Mrs. Perry in February or March, 1929.
Title: Voter's party on a Mount Abraham trail
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Voter
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are: Voter, Taylor and Trukington on the trail. Negative done by Professor Voter.
Title: West from Mount Abraham at sunrise
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1918-09; 1918-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured in this photograph is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
Title: Westerly view from Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918; 1918
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Photo taken in the early morning.
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