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 [418]
- Dean, Theron S. [302]
- Perry, Mrs. [39]
- Johnson, Eric [16]
- Puffer, Louis [16]
- Wilkinson, Robert [16]
- Charles Beseler Co. [6]
- Clark [6]
- Chamberlain, Allen, b. 1867 [5]
- Cowles, Clarence P. [5]
- Eldred [5]
- Joslin [5]
- Richardson [5]
- Thurston, John H. [5]
- Brehmer [4]
- Dockham [3]
- Doe, Jessie [3]
- Perry, Mrs. F.A. [3]
- Smith [3]
- Bliss [2]
- Bliss, J. Isham [2]
- Buchanan, R.O. [2]
- Cooley [2]
- Grahme, Malcolm [2]
- Lesage, Ernest R. [2]
- Voter [2]
- Bosan, Mrs. [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]
- Morton [1]
- Mortons [1]
- Muller [1]
- Peck, Miss [1]
- Prior [1]
- Ridley, W.H. [1]
- Standard Slide Corp. [1]
- Taylor, H.C. [1]
- Taylor, James P. [1]
- Towle [1]
- Tuitehall, E.Y. [1]
- Wilhiamson [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [831]
- Camels Hump [139]
- Mount Mansfield [118]
- Mount Abraham [36]
- Mount Ellen [26]
- Bolton Mountain [23]
- Smugglers Notch [21]
- Burnt Rock Mountain [15]
- Stark Mountain [15]
- Taft Lodge [15]
- Town of Bolton [15]
- Pico Peak [14]
- Battell Shelter [13]
- Birch Glen Camp [10]
- Emily Proctor Shelter [10]
- Killington Peak [10]
- Jay Peak [9]
- Lincoln Mountain [9]
- Nebraska Notch [9]
- Taylor Lodge [9]
- Barnes Camp [8]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [8]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [8]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [8]
- Bolton Lodge [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]
- Bromley Mountain [4]
- Mount Horrid [4]
- Pleiad Shelter [4]
- Town of Bristol [4]
- Beaver Meadow [3]
- Belvidere Mountain [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 Stowe [3]
- Town of Underhill [3]
- Town of Warren [3]
- White Rocks [3]
- Winooski River [3]
- Bingham Falls [2]
- Bourn Pond [2]
- Boyce Shelter [2]
- City of Burlington [2]
- Hell Hollow Brook [2]
- Jeffersonville [2]
- Journeys End Camp [2]
- Lincoln Gap [2]
- Middlebury Gap [2]
- Mount Carmel [2]
- Mount Ira Allen [2]
- Mount Wilson [2]
- Noyes Pond [2]
- Sherburne Pass [2]
- Stratton Mountain [2]
- Stratton Pond [2]
- Theron Dean Shelter [2]
- Three Shanties Brook [2]
- Town of Bennington [2]
- Town of Duxbury [2]
- Town of Killington [2]
- Town of Shrewsbury [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]
- 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]
- Lake Mansfield [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]
- Round Top [1]
- Somerset Reservoir [1]
- Spring Lake [1]
- Sterling Range [1]
- Styles Peak [1]
- Sugarloaf Mountain [1]
- Town of Glastenbury [1]
- Town of Johnson [1]
- Town of Mendon [1]
- Town of Montgomery [1]
- Town of Plymouth [1]
- Town of Starksboro [1]
- Town of Wallingford [1]
Format(s)
- image [833]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [833]
- photographs [833]
- landscape photographs [362]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [833]
- Camping [180]
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton1876-1965 [49]
- Smith, Leverett [33]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [31]
- Smith, Gilbert [11]
- Surveying Instruments [10]
- Children [9]
- Boats and boating [8]
- Burnham, Rogers [7]
- Farms [5]
- Gilbert, Connie [5]
- Kurth, Hilda [5]
- Norris, Kathleen [5]
- Robbins, Catherine [5]
- Bridges [4]
- Canoes and canoeing [4]
- Cows [4]
- Farmhouses [4]
- Hotels [4]
- Olney, Ward [4]
- Puffer, Louis [4]
- Taylor, James P. [4]
- Bliss, Fred [2]
- Chamberlain, Allenb. 1867 [2]
- Horses [2]
- Barns [1]
- Carpenter, Grace [1]
- Carpenter, Molly [1]
- Flood damage [1]
- Swimming [1]
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Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mo...