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)
- Dean, Theron S. [335]
- Perry, Mrs. [18]
- Richardson [5]
- Charles Beseler Co. [2]
- Clark [2]
- Eldred [2]
- Wilkinson, Robert [2]
- KY, Mrs. [1]
- Lesage, Ernest R. [1]
- Peck, G.E. [1]
- Peck, Miss [1]
- Prior [1]
- Puffer, Louis [1]
- Standard Slide Corp. [1]
- Voter [1]
Place(s)
- Long Trail [317]
- Camels Hump [64]
- Mount Mansfield [32]
- Mount Abraham [22]
- Mount Ellen [19]
- Bolton Mountain [15]
- Battell Shelter [11]
- Lincoln Mountain [9]
- Smugglers Notch [8]
- Bread Loaf Mountain [7]
- Stark Mountain [7]
- Nebraska Notch [6]
- Birch Glen Camp [5]
- Molly Stark Mountain [5]
- Montclair Glen Lodge [5]
- Mount Hunger [5]
- Pico Peak [5]
- Lake Mansfield [4]
- Taft Lodge [4]
- Taylor Lodge [4]
- Town of Bristol [4]
- Barnes Camp [3]
- Burnt Rock Mountain [3]
- Emily Proctor Shelter [3]
- Jay Peak [3]
- Lincoln Peak [3]
- Town of Bolton [3]
- Town of Warren [3]
- Belvidere Mountain [2]
- Bolton Lodge [2]
- Cooley Glen Shelter [2]
- Lake of the Clouds [2]
- Mount Ethan Allen [2]
- Mount Grant [2]
- Mount Roosevelt [2]
- Sterling Pond [2]
- Sucker Brook Shelter [2]
- Town of Duxbury [2]
- Town of Huntington [2]
- Town of Waitsfield [2]
- Winooski River [2]
- Appalachian Gap [1]
- Battell Trail [1]
- Beaver Meadow [1]
- Carmel Camp [1]
- Chamberlain Glen [1]
- City of Burlington [1]
- French Hill [1]
- Hell Hollow Brook [1]
- Jeffersonville [1]
- Jerusalem [1]
- Joiner Brook [1]
- Laura Woodward Camp [1]
- Madonna Peak [1]
- Mount Pisgah [1]
- Mount Wilson [1]
- New Haven River [1]
- Prospect Rock [1]
- Spring Lake [1]
- Stratton Pond [1]
- Sugarloaf Mountain [1]
- Town of Johnson [1]
- Town of Killington [1]
- Town of Lincoln [1]
- Town of Mendon [1]
- Town of Plymouth [1]
- Town of Starksboro [1]
- Town of Stowe [1]
- Town of Underhill [1]
Format(s)
- image [335]
Genre(s)
- lantern slides [335]
- photographs [335]
- landscape photographs [130]
Topic(s)
- Hiking [302]
- Camping [69]
- Animals [16]
- Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour)1863-1939 [16]
- Dean, Theron S. [12]
- Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter)1875-1963 [5]
- Surveying Instruments [5]
- Horses [4]
- Kurth, Hilda [4]
- Norris, Kathleen [4]
- Robbins, Catherine [4]
- Smith, Gilbert [4]
- Boats and boating [3]
- Burnham, Lyman [3]
- Canoes and canoeing [3]
- Hotels [3]
- Smith, Leverett [3]
- Taylor, James P. [3]
- Bridges [2]
- Dams [2]
- Farms [2]
- Flood damage [2]
- Flowers [2]
- Bliss, Fred [1]
- Burnham, Rogers [1]
- Carpenter, Grace [1]
- Carpenter, Molly [1]
- Chamberlain, Allenb. 1867 [1]
- Interior architecture [1]
- Puffer, Louis [1]
- Swimming [1]
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Title: 30 foot tower on Bolton Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1921; 1921
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: A view of Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1918-09-07; 1918-09-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Resource type: landscape photographs
Taken from the second lookout south of the Lincoln-Warren Pass.
Title: Adirondack Lookout sign on General Stark Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Admiral Clark on the porch of the Lake Mansfield Trout Club
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Alice Dean at Taft Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1923-08-30; 1923-08-30
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Allen Chamberlain Glen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The sign pictured in this image reads "Allen Chamberlain Glen."
Title: Allen Chamberlain on Mount Abraham
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-09-22; 1917-09-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Appalachian Gap
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-02-18; 1917-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Wooden sign with the name "Appalachian Pass."
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: Baby fox near Jay Peak
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1927-08-26; 1927-08-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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: 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: Birch Glen Lodge - 5.5 miles from Glen Ellen
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-04; 1935-08-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
Title: Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1917-02-18; 1917-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The sign reads "Birch Glen 3 m." and has a G.M.C. (Green Mountain Club) marking.
Title: Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mountain
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1920?; 1917-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
The sign reads "Birch Glen 3 m." and has a G.M.C. (Green Mountain Club) marking.
Title: Bolton Lodge
Creator: Dean, Theron S.
Date: 1935-08-07; 1935-08-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: lantern slides
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