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)
- Eldred [5]
- Perry, Mrs. [5]
- Puffer, Louis [4]
- Dean, Theron S. [2]
- Field, W.H. [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [5]
- City of Rutland [1]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [5]
- photographs [5]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [5]
- Camping [2]
- Puffer, Louis [1]
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Author: ("Eldred")
Title: Camp Thendara's
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Puffer, Louis; Eldred; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1929; 1929
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured in this image are: Professor Louis Puffer on the left, Major Jenlas in the center and Bob Aikon on the right. Negative by Puffer. Slide done by Eldred in September, 1931. Colored by Mrs. Perry in September 1931.
Title: Four men at marker 592
Creator: Puffer, Louis; Eldred; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The photo is attributed to Puffer and the slide to Eldred. The original title seems to indicate that two of the men pictured are Roy Buchanan his brother-in-law Hardy Puffer. The slide was colored by Mrs. Perry in June 1933.
Title: Governor Clement Camp, 5 miles South of Rutland
Creator: Field, W.H.; Puffer, Louis; Eldred; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The gentlemen in the photo are: Major Jenks (left) and either Bob Aiken or Puffer (right). The photo was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Field. The negative was done by Puffer, the slide by Eldred, and the coloring by Mrs. Perry.
Title: Roy Buchanan in Long Trail Patrol Car 1
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Eldred; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1933-06; 1933-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
A note on the original photograph states that this Patrol Car #1 was a Dodge, given by M. Proctor. The man driving is Roy Buchanan. Slide done by Eldred and colored by Mrs. Perry.
Title: Sign marking the Massachusetts - Vermont line
Creator: Puffer, Louis; Eldred; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This sign marks the Southern terminus of the Vermont Long Trail and its junction with the Appalachian Trail. There are small arrow shaped markers on other tree trunks that read "Long Trail" and "AT." The negative is attributed to Puffer, the slide to Eldred, and the coloring to Mrs. Perry.
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