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...
Show moreThe 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 traveled 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 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/.
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Lesson Plans
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- Near view of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the South
- Date Created
- 1924-11
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- New Barnes Camp
- Date Created
- 1927
- Title
- New trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- North Duxbury, looking East from Monroe Skyline Trail
- Date Created
- 1925-07
- Description
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Question marks in the original title denote that the date of this photo is not altogether certain.
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- North from Couching Lion's (Camel's Hump) north lookout
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- North from Malcolm Graeme
- Date Created
- 1918-08
- Description
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In the distance are Camel's Hump (also called "Couching Lion") and Mount Mansfield.
- Title
- North from Molly Stark's Balcony looking at Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- North from the trail down into the Lincoln Warren Pass
- Date Created
- 1918-09
- Title
- North Hut on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Description
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The words on the shelter read: "1912 Camels Hump Club." "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- North knoll on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1914-09
- Description
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The person in the image is Guy McCorkle. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- North toward Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from Champlain Panorama
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Northern view from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1918-08
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- On the way to Lincoln Mountain from Double Hill in Warren
- Date Created
- 1921-02-17
- Title
- Oxen hauling supplies for the building of the Battell Trail
- Date Created
- 1917-08-31
- Description
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These oxen are pictured on the Battell Road hauling supplies for trail builders.
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- Paris and Woodruff (fallen) on Camel's Hump - Dean standing and laughing
- Date Created
- 1915-01-03
- Description
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- Party assembled in front of a shelter
- Date Created
- 1920-08-08
- Description
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Pictured are (from left to right): Captain Herbert Wheaton Congdon, a boy with Congdon, Professor William Seymour Monroe, Miss Monroe, Miss Mabel Brownwell, Colonel Whittlesey, Colonel Whittlesey's friend.
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- Party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1923-08-22
- Description
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Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Paulsen, Paris, Bliss, Woodruff, and Arms at the top of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1915-01-03
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.