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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- Summit House Hotel on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1926
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This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
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- Summit House Hotel on Mount Mansfield: chin in the background
- Date Created
- 1929
- Description
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This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel." Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
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- Summit House on Mount Mansfield from afar
- Date Created
- 1926
- Description
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This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
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- Summit of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1914-09
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Summit of Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1918-08
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- Sunny mountain peak
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- Sunset from Dunsmoor Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08-24
- Description
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The man in the image may be Herbert Wheaton Congdon. Slide recolored by Mrs. Perry November 16, 1924.
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- Taft Lodge in Summer
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- Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1935-08-09
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- Taylor Lodge
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- Taylor Lodge and Twitchell
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Colored by Mrs. Perry in March of 1929.
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- Tent in Cooley Glen
- Date Created
- 1918?
- Description
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A lodge was built in Cooley Glen in 1919. Pictured are Allen and Gilbert Smith, along with Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
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- Theron Dean emerging from the cave he discovered
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
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- Theron S. Dean scouting a trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Description
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The original title of this photo notes that it was a gift from Theron S. Dean. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Three Jacksons at Montclair Glen Lodge
- Date Created
- 1926-09-19
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- Three men at Taylor Lodge in Nebraska Notch
- Date Created
- 1935-08-08
- Description
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There are four directional signs attached to the tree in this image. Those that are legible read "Bolton Lodge" and "Mansfield Mountain [???] Lodge."
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- The Three Musketeers
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Pictured are: Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth, and Kathleen Norris. Miss Robbins and Hilda Kurth were teachers, and Miss Robbins attended Middlebury College. These three were the first women to hike the entirety of the Long Trail. They covered 280 miles in 27 days.
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- Three Musketeers and music
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Pictured are (from left to right): Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth, and Kathleen Norris. Miss Robbins and Hilda Kurth were teachers, and Miss Robbins attended Middlebury College. These three were the first women to hike the entirety of the Long Trail. They covered 280 miles in 27 days.
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- Three Musketeers sitting at Hazens Notch
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Pictured are (from left to right): Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth, and Kathleen Norris. Miss Robbins and Hilda Kurth were teachers, and Miss Robbins attended Middlebury College. These three were the first women to hike the entirety of the Long Trail. They covered 280 miles in 27 days. The marker...
Show morePictured are (from left to right): Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth, and Kathleen Norris. Miss Robbins and Hilda Kurth were teachers, and Miss Robbins attended Middlebury College. These three were the first women to hike the entirety of the Long Trail. They covered 280 miles in 27 days. The marker behind them reads "Long Trail South."
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