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 [459]
- Dean, Theron S. [335]
- Perry, Mrs. [42]
- Wilkinson, Robert [17]
- Johnson, Eric [16]
- Puffer, Louis [16]
- Clark [7]
- Charles Beseler Co. [6]
- Richardson [6]
- Thurston, John H. [6]
- Brehmer [5]
- Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867 [5]
- Cowles, Clarence P. [5]
- Eldred [5]
- Joslin [5]
- Perry, Mrs. F.A. [5]
- Dockham [3]
- Doe, Jessie [3]
- Smith [3]
- Bliss [2]
- Bliss, J. Isham [2]
- Buchanan, R.O. [2]
- Cooley [2]
- Grahme, Malcolm [2]
- Lesage, Ernest R. [2]
- Morton [2]
- Standard Slide Corp. [2]
- Voter [2]
- Bentley, W. A. (Wilson Alwyn), 1865-1931 [1]
- Bosan, Mrs. [1]
- Brounell, L.W. [1]
- Burrows, Jes [1]
- Clark, Byron [1]
- Collahan, F.H. [1]
- Diehl [1]
- Dunsmoor, Ralph W. [1]
- Field, W.H. [1]
- Fuller, Clayton [1]
- Hanston [1]
- Hilton [1]
- Holmes [1]
- Houston [1]
- James, J. Fitz [1]
- KY, Mrs. [1]
- Lye, Miss [1]
- Marshall, Dr. [1]
- Monroe, William Seymour [1]
- Mortons [1]
- Muller [1]
- Peck, G.E. [1]
- Peck, Miss [1]
- Peels, Miss [1]
- Prior [1]
- Ridley, W.H. [1]
- Taylor, H.C. [1]
- Taylor, James P. [1]
- Towle [1]
- Tuitehall, E.Y. [1]
- White, Wills J. [1]
- Wilhiamson [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [869]
- Camels Hump [145]
- Mount Mansfield [118]
- Mount Abraham [36]
- Mount Ellen [26]
- Smugglers Notch [24]
- Bolton Mountain [23]
- Town of Bolton [19]
- Burnt Rock Mountain [15]
- Pico Peak [15]
- Stark Mountain [15]
- Taft Lodge [15]
- Battell Shelter [13]
- Jay Peak [11]
- Birch Glen Camp [10]
- Emily Proctor Shelter [10]
- Killington Peak [10]
- Lincoln Mountain [9]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [9]
- Nebraska Notch [9]
- Taylor Lodge [9]
- Barnes Camp [8]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [8]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [8]
- Bolton Lodge [7]
- Lake Mansfield [7]
- Lake of the Clouds [6]
- Molly Stark Mountain [6]
- Mount Ethan Allen [6]
- Sterling Pond [6]
- Carmel Camp [5]
- Lincoln Peak [5]
- Mount Hunger [5]
- Town of Bristol [5]
- Winooski River [5]
- Bromley Mountain [4]
- Jeffersonville [4]
- Mount Horrid [4]
- Pleiad Shelter [4]
- Town of Bennington [4]
- Beaver Meadow [3]
- Belvidere Mountain [3]
- City of Burlington [3]
- Hell Hollow Brook [3]
- Joiner Brook [3]
- Madonna Peak [3]
- Mount Grant [3]
- Mount Roosevelt [3]
- Pleiad Lake [3]
- Prospect Rock [3]
- Ritterbush Camp [3]
- Sucker Brook Shelter [3]
- Town of Huntington [3]
- Town of Johnson [3]
- Town of Stowe [3]
- Town of Underhill [3]
- Town of Warren [3]
- White Rocks [3]
- Bingham Falls [2]
- Bourn Pond [2]
- Boyce Shelter [2]
- Journeys End Camp [2]
- Lincoln Gap [2]
- Middlebury Gap [2]
- Morses Mill [2]
- Mount Carmel [2]
- Mount Ira Allen [2]
- Mount Wilson [2]
- Noyes Pond [2]
- Round Top [2]
- Sherburne Pass [2]
- Stratton Mountain [2]
- Stratton Pond [2]
- Theron Dean Shelter [2]
- Three Shanties Brook [2]
- Town of Duxbury [2]
- Town of Killington [2]
- Town of Shrewsbury [2]
- Town of Waitsfield [2]
- Appalachian Gap [1]
- Battell Trail [1]
- Big Spring [1]
- Button Hill [1]
- Chamberlain Glen [1]
- Chilcoot Pass [1]
- Chittenden Reservoir [1]
- City of Rutland [1]
- Clarendon Gorge [1]
- Cowles Cove Shelter [1]
- Dorset Mountain [1]
- Downer Glen [1]
- Elephants Head [1]
- Fay Fuller Camp [1]
- French Hill [1]
- Glastenbury Camp [1]
- Green Mountain [1]
- Griffith Shelter [1]
- Harmon Hill [1]
- Haystack Mountain [1]
- Hazens Notch [1]
- Jerusalem [1]
- Laura Woodward Camp [1]
- Little Rock Pond [1]
- Mendon Peak [1]
- Middlesex Center [1]
- Molly Stark Trail [1]
- Moulds Lodge [1]
- Mount Pisgah [1]
- New Haven River [1]
- North Pond [1]
- Parker Camp [1]
- Pico Pond [1]
- Ritterbush Pond [1]
- Silver Lake [1]
- Somerset Reservoir [1]
- Spring Lake [1]
- Sterling Range [1]
- Styles Peak [1]
- Sugarloaf Mountain [1]
- Town of Glastenbury [1]
- Town of Goshen [1]
- Town of Lincoln [1]
- Town of Mendon [1]
- Town of Montgomery [1]
- Town of Plymouth [1]
- Town of Starksboro [1]
- Town of Wallingford [1]
- Town of Woodstock [1]
Format(s)
- image [918]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [918]
- photographs [918]
- landscape photographs [384]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [833]
- Camping [181]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [50]
- Animals [33]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [33]
- Children [14]
- Farmhouses [12]
- Boats and boating [11]
- Smith, Gilbert [11]
- Surveying Instruments [10]
- Farms [9]
- Bridges [8]
- Cows [8]
- Burnham, Rogers [7]
- Horses [7]
- Canoes and canoeing [6]
- Gilbert, Connie [5]
- Kurth, Hilda [5]
- Norris, Kathleen [5]
- Olney, Ward [5]
- Robbins, Catherine [5]
- Hotels [4]
- Puffer, Louis [4]
- Taylor, James P. [4]
- Flood damage [3]
- Flowers [3]
- Bliss, Fred [2]
- Chamberlain, Allenb. 1867 [2]
- Dams [2]
- Barns [1]
- Carpenter, Grace [1]
- Carpenter, Molly [1]
- Interior architecture [1]
- Swimming [1]
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Title: At Birch Glen Camp
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1916-09; 1916-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured are Olden Paris, Theron S. Dean, and William Seymour Monroe drying out after a storm.
Title: At the base of Mount Ellen: 4 A.M start
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This winter expedition is getting an early morning start at 4 A.M.
Title: At the foot of zig-zags on General Stark Mountain
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Automobile on dirt road
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1914; 1914
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
Title: Baby fox near Jay Peak
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1927-08-26; 1927-08-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Baker's Notch and Mount Ethan Allen from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) trail
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Baker's Notch at the fork
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1919-09; 1919-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Bare trees and mountain range
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: 1940; 1940
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
Title: Barnes Camp in Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Bath time at the lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Both the person and lodge are unidentified.
Title: Bathing pool at Breadloaf Glen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Bathing pool at Breadloaf Glen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918; 1918
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Battell Lodge and Breadloaf Mountain from Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Battell Lodge on Lincoln Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1914-07-01; 1914-07-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Battell Shelter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-08; 1917-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
A view of the Battell shelter from the North East.
Title: Belvidere Mountain Tower: Summer and Winter
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Belvidere Mountain from the East
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1921; 1921
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Bennington Battle Monument
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Bennington Battlefield
Creator: White, Wills J.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Originally from a print by Wills J. White, this image is a view of Bennington Battlefield. The battlefield is the clearing atop the hill beyond the bridge.
Title: Bennington from Harmon Hill
Creator: Joslin
Date: 1934; 1934
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Title: Bert Mays house in Bolton during the 1928 flood
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Colored by Mrs. Perry in February 1929. The original photograph notes: "15(?) people spent night of flood here - 9 of them children."
Title: Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Bosan, Mrs.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1920; 1926-05-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?). Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on November 16, 1924.
Title: Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1926-05-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?).
Title: Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1926-05-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?).
Title: Big Jay, Little Jay, and Jay
Creator: Fuller, Clayton; Brehmer
Date: 1932; 1932
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
In the foreground is Little Jay (3,202 feet). Behind and over it is Big Jay (3,800 feet). Behind it is Jay (3,861 feet). Slide made by Brehmer in June 1932.
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