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
Rights: Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the UVM Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives at cdi@uvm.edu. For more information, see http://cdi.uvm.edu/about/rights. More information.
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Creator(s)
- Dean, Theron S. [10]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965 [3]
- Clark [2]
- Buchanan, R.O. [1]
- Perry, Mrs. [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [10]
- Bolton Lodge [3]
- Jay Peak [2]
- Town of Johnson [2]
- Town of Waitsfield [2]
- Bolton Mountain [1]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [1]
- Camels Hump [1]
- Fay Fuller Camp [1]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [1]
- Mount Mansfield [1]
- Winooski River [1]
Format(s)
- image [14]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [14]
- photographs [14]
Topic(s)
- Children [14]
- Hiking [9]
- Camping [4]
- Animals [1]
- Boats and boating [1]
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Title: Andy R. Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
Creator: Buchanan, R.O.; Clark
Date: 1929-09; 1929-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Photo taken by Andy's father, Professor R.O. Buchanan of Burlington, Vermont. Slide made January 2, 1930 by Clark.
Title: Andy R. Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Date: ; 1929-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Photo taken by Andy's father, Professor R.O. Buchanan of Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Bolton Long Trail sign, looking East at Bolton
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Perry, Mrs.
Date: 1923-05-23; 1923-05-23
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The sign in this image reads: " A footpath in the wilderness Long Trail." Milemarkers attached to the sign read: "Killington 82 M, Camel's Hump 4.5 M, Massachusetts State Line 181.6 M, Montclair Glen 6.5 M, Lincoln Mt. 25.8, Dunsmoor Lodge 5.6 M, Summit Bolton Mt. 6.7 M, Lake Mansfield 9.8 M, Summit 15.4 M, Mt. Mansfield Taft Lodge 17.2 M." The negative was made by Theron Dean on May 6, 1923 and it was colored by Mrs. Perry on February of 1929.
Title: Burtis W. Dean snowshoeing at age 3
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1914; 1914
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry November, 1924.
Title: Caretaker on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) preparing to cook a porcupine
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
Title: Fay Fuller Camp
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Lodge in the Mount Mansfield Region
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1926?; 1926?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The only readable sign on the marker pole reads: "Bread Loaf Inn 2."
Title: Montclair Glen Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1922-10-01; 1922-10-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on April 1, 1929.
Title: Professor Buchanan and Andy Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.; Clark
Date: 1929-09; 1929-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Pictured here is Professor Buchanan and a boy that is identified elsewhere in this collection as Andy Buchanan. The original slide states that Andy is here 2 1/2 years old and that they have walked two of the four miles to the lodge. Slide done by Clark on January 2, 1930.
Title: Reverend F.M. Hazen and children of Johnson, VT - Jay Peak in the background
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Reverend F.M. Hazen and children of Johnson, VT - Jay Peak in the background
Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Where does sap come from? Miss Florence Jones of Waitsfield and her Papa
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920; 1925; 1922
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Florence Jones was born on July 19, 1919 and was three years old in this photograph.
Title: Where does sap come from? Miss Florence Jones of Waitsfield and her Papa
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: ; 1922
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Florence Jones was born on July 19, 1919 and was three years old in this photograph.
Title: Where the Long Trail ferry crosses the Winooski River
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-07; 1935-08-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The elevation at this point of the Long Trail is 338 feet. A bridge has since been built.
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