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 [69]
- Dean, Theron S. [32]
- Wilkinson, Robert [8]
- Perry, Mrs. [7]
- Puffer, Louis [5]
- Cowles, Clarence P. [2]
- Clark, Byron [1]
- Hanston [1]
- Holmes [1]
- Houston [1]
- Johnson, Eric [1]
- Morton [1]
- Richardson [1]
- Wilhiamson [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [118]
- Mount Mansfield [118]
- Camels Hump [6]
- Lake of the Clouds [5]
- Bolton Mountain [4]
- Smugglers Notch [3]
- Taft Lodge [3]
- Town of Stowe [3]
- Town of Underhill [3]
- Barnes Camp [2]
- Madonna Peak [2]
- Nebraska Notch [2]
- Bolton Lodge [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- Jeffersonville [1]
- Sterling Pond [1]
- Sterling Range [1]
Format(s)
- image [118]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [118]
- photographs [118]
- landscape photographs [82]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [118]
- Smith, Leverett [13]
- Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter)1875-1963 [7]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [6]
- Camping [4]
- Dean, Theron S. [1]
- Surveying Instruments [1]
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Place: ("Mount Mansfield")
Title: Leach and Warren making packs on the Mount Mansfield nose
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett Smith and Herbert Wheaton Congdon at lunch on Mount Mansfield's Old Long Trail
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Photo taken 1/2 a mile away from the the Needle's Eye.
Title: Leverett Smith at the lower end of the new forehead trail on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-19; 1920-08-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett Smith on a log bridge at the foot of Mount Mansfield's forehead trail
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett T. Smith at the Needle's Eye on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-19; 1920-08-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett T. Smith at the Needle's Eye on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08-19
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 near the Needle's Eye on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Morton
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The inscription at the bottom of the photograph reads "_____ (illegible) 'The Long Trail.'"
Title: Looking North from the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-22; 1920-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Looking North from the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-22; 1920-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Looking South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-21; 1920-02-21
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Looking South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-22; 1920-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this photograph is Clarence P. Cowles.
Title: Looking West from pass to the north of Mount Mansfield's chin
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-21; 1920-02-21
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Looking West from under Mount Mansfield's chin
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Looking toward the chin of Mount Mansfield from the Barnes Camp at Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mabel Taylor Butler Lodge on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Mansfield from the West
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Mansfield - church steeple in foreground
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original image image contains a note stating that the original image is from Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier, Vermont.
Title: Mount Mansfield - summit of the nose
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured is Leverett Smith.
Title: Mount Mansfield Region
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Mansfield Summit House from the nose
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Mount Mansfield Taft Trail - a view of the nose from under the chin
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Mount Mansfield and Jeffersonville
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
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