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)
- Perry, Mrs. [42]
- Dean, Theron S. [18]
- Eldred [5]
- Puffer, Louis [4]
- Charles Beseler Co. [2]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965 [2]
- Cowles, Clarence P. [2]
- Johnson, Eric [2]
- Wilkinson, Robert [2]
- Bosan, Mrs. [1]
- Brehmer [1]
- Clark [1]
- Clark, Byron [1]
- Doe, Jessie [1]
- Field, W.H. [1]
- Hanston [1]
- Hilton [1]
- Houston [1]
- Prior [1]
- Richardson [1]
- Ridley, W.H. [1]
- Standard Slide Corp. [1]
- Tuitehall, E.Y. [1]
- Voter [1]
- Wilhiamson [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [41]
- Mount Mansfield [7]
- Camels Hump [4]
- Bolton Mountain [3]
- Burnt Rock Mountain [3]
- Bolton Lodge [2]
- Mount Abraham [2]
- Taylor Lodge [2]
- Town of Stowe [2]
- Barnes Camp [1]
- Battell Shelter [1]
- Battell Trail [1]
- Birch Glen Camp [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- City of Rutland [1]
- Jay Peak [1]
- Killington Peak [1]
- Mount Horrid [1]
- Pico Peak [1]
- Pleiad Lake [1]
- Smugglers Notch [1]
- Taft Lodge [1]
- Theron Dean Shelter [1]
- Town of Bolton [1]
Format(s)
- image [42]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [42]
- photographs [42]
- landscape photographs [19]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [39]
- Camping [8]
- Animals [4]
- Dean, Theron S. [4]
- Cows [2]
- Farms [1]
- Flood damage [1]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [1]
- Puffer, Louis [1]
- Surveying Instruments [1]
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Author: ("Perry, Mrs.")
Title: Mount Mansfield from Stowe
Creator: Houston; Wilhiamson; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
The original title states that the negative was taken by either Houston or Wilhiamson. It was colored by Mrs. Perry around 1929.
Title: Mount Mansfield from Stowe
Creator: Hanston; Wilkinson, Robert; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Photo attributed to either Hanston or Robert W. Wilkinson. It was most likely colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
Title: Mrs. Davis, unknown, oxen, Mr. Herr, and Mr. Henry Davis
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1924-05-21
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are: Mrs. Davis, unknown, oxen, Mr. Herr, and Mr. Henry Davis. Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
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: Near view of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the South
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1924-11; 1924-11
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Pico Peak and a load of hay
Creator: Brehmer; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Pleiad Lake
Creator: Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Colored by Mrs. Perry in February, 1929.
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.
Title: Snowshoers looking at a mountain gap
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: ; 1931
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
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: Taylor Lodge
Creator: Hilton; Clark; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1927-02-22; 1927-02-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Negative taken by Mr. Hilton of Underhill. Slide made by Clark of Burlington. Colored by Mrs. Perry in February, 1929.
Title: Taylor Lodge and Twitchell
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Colored by Mrs. Perry in March of 1929.
Title: Theron Dean winter hiking with pack in Glen Ellen
Creator: Cowles, Clarence P.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1917-02-17; 1917-02-17
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on March 26, 1929. Original notation for the slide's coloring stated: "Elevation 3430 ft. Had red and black blaid mackinaw. Blue or black cap. Brown tote bag. Leather straps over shoulders can make white or red tops to stockings."
Title: Theron Dean winter hiking with pack in Glen Ellen
Creator: Cowles, Clarence P.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1917-02-17; 1917-02-17
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on March 26, 1929. Original notation for the slide's coloring stated: "Elevation 3430 ft. Had red and black blaid mackinaw. Blue or black cap. Brown tote bag. Leather straps over shoulders can make white or red tops to stockings."
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: White and Dean on Killington
Creator: Voter; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1922-03-12; 1922-03-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This image is thought to be on Killington, however, "(?)" was included in the original title. The sign in the image reads, "Notice: Please read the rules." The slide was colored by Mrs. Perry in 1924 or 1926.
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