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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- Three Musketeers sitting at Hazens Notch
- Date Created
- 1927
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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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- Three young people in front of a lodge
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The three young people in this image are not identified.
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- Through spruces to Beane's Farm
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The person in this photograph is identified as "Miss Taylor."
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- Tip of frosted balsam and Long Trail sign on Lincoln Mountain near Mount Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-10-07
- Description
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The original title included the names Miss Goodell and Jess Farrete. Their role in the creation of the slide was not given.
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- Tower on Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1935
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- Trail clearing south of Burnt Rock Mountain
- Date Created
- 1916
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The men in this image are unidentified.
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- Trail of King Rock
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- Tripod on Mount Hunger
- Date Created
- 1921-10-02
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One of the men in this image may be named "Lord."
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- Trustees of the Green Mountain Club at Shrewsbury Pond (Spring Lake)
- Date Created
- 1921-03-12
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"Shrewsbury Pond" is former name for Spring Lake in the Town of Shrewsbury.
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- Twiss and Doctor Pardridge: Twiss admiring his feet
- Date Created
- 1915-02
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- Two men at the top of a log tower
- Date Created
- 1924-03-04
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- The two spirits of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1926-09-19
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The women in the photo are not identified. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- The two spirits of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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The women in the photo are not identified. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Two women camping on the trail
- Date Created
- 1926-02-24
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- Valley view
- Date Created
- 1924-03-04
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- A view of Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1918-09-07
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Taken from the second lookout south of the Lincoln-Warren Pass.
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- Voter's party on a Mount Abraham trail
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Description
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Pictured are: Voter, Taylor and Trukington on the trail. Negative done by Professor Voter.
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- Waterfall and pool