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: Snowshoers at the Mount Mansfield chin and Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965; Puffer, Louis
Date: 1926; 04; 1926-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: South from cliff lookout on Mount Mansfield's Forehead Trail
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-19; 1920-08-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-12; 1920-08-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Sterling Pond and Mount Mansfield from Madonna lookout
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1919?; 1919?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Sterling Range from the trail to Mount Mansfield's Adams apple
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: Summit House Hotel and chin of Mount Mansfield from the South
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Date: 1926-05-06; 1926-05-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Summit House Hotel on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Richardson
Date: 1926-02-24; 1926-02-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Enlarged slide made by Richardson of Newport, Vermont. This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Summit House Hotel on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1926?; 1926
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Summit House Hotel on Mount Mansfield: chin in the background
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1929
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel." Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
Title: Summit House and cow on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Summit House on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Summit House on Mount Mansfield from afar
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1926?; 1926
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Summit House on Mount Mansfield looking east from trail to nose
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-19; 1920-08-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
Title: Sunset view of Mount Mansfield from the East
Creator: Wilkinson, Robert
Date: 1926-05-06; 1926-05-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Both the slide and coloring were done by Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier.
Title: Taft Trail to Mount Mansfield below Lookout Bluff
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-02-21; 1920-02-21
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The person in this photograph is identified as L.L. Little.
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: The throat of of Mount Mansfield from Barnes Camp
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The person on the road in this image is not identified.
Title: The top of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965; Puffer, Louis
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The slide negative was done by Puffer.
Title: Theron Dean on the chin of Mount Mansfield
Creator: Cowles, Clarence P.
Date: 1918-02-16; 1918-02-16
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original description states that this photo was colored by "_____(?)" and "retouched by K. Feb. '29." It also mentions another photo titled "Dean on Chin, Mt. Mansfield 2.16.1918 (by Dean)" which may may indicate that the photo pictured here was also taken on February 16, 1918.
Title: Vermont Hotel
Creator: Johnson, Eric
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Building is also called "Summit House."
Title: Vermont Hotel on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Building is also called "Summit House."
Title: Vermont Hotel on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Building is also called "Summit House."
Title: View South from Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: West from a pass under 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: West from the westerly end of the Nebraska Notch Trail to Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured in this image is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
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