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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- Long Trail [30]
- Mount Mansfield [11]
- Camels Hump [3]
- Bingham Falls [1]
- Bourn Pond [1]
- Carmel Camp [1]
- Hell Hollow Brook [1]
- Lake of the Clouds [1]
- Middlebury Gap [1]
- Mount Carmel [1]
- North Pond [1]
- Pico Peak [1]
- Sherburne Pass [1]
- Smugglers Notch [1]
- Sterling Pond [1]
- Town of Bolton [1]
Format(s)
- image [30]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [30]
- photographs [30]
- landscape photographs [4]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [30]
- Smith, Leverett [30]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [5]
- Camping [3]
- Olney, Ward [3]
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Title: Lake of the Clouds from the Mount Mansfield Adam's apple
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-12; 1920-08-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
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 and porcupine at Dunsmoor Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-25; 1920-08-25
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett Smith at Big Rocks south of Peru Pike
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett Smith at North Pond
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08-05; 1921-08-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett Smith at a clearing on the trail north of Dunsmoor Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-25; 1920-08-25
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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 crossing a log bridge at the outlet of Buffum Pond
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
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 Smith on an old lumber rail road bridge near Bourne Pond
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett Smith topping the first ledge of the New Trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-08; 1919-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919?; 1919?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Leverett T. Smith at Hell Brook
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08-06; 1920-08-06
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: Looking South from the second knoll of the New Trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-08; 1919-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The person pictured here is identified as Leverett Smith. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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: Nearing the summit on the Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) New Trail
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-08; 1919-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this photograph is Leverett Smith. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: North of the chin on 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 are: Smith, Leverett T. Smith, and Leach.
Title: Rock near Needle's Eye on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
Title: Smugglers' Cave on Mount Mansfield
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1920-08; 1920-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured is Leverett Smith.
Title: Spring in a clearing 1 1/2 miles up Pico from Sherburne Pass
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08-08; 1921-08-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
Title: Ward Olney and Leverett Smith on the Long Trail near indian gravestones North of Middlebury Gap
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Ward Olney and Leverett Smith washing dishes at Carmel Camp
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08; 1921-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Ward Olney, Leverett Smith and the porkie (porcupine) near Mount Carmel
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1921-08-05; 1921-08-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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