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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- Montclair Lodge
- Date Created
- 1919-08
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Pictured in this image are (from left to right): Gilbert Smith, Allen Smith, Theron Dean, Professor William Seymour Monroe, Miss Monroe, Herbert W. Congdon, Smith, Unknown, James P. Taylor, and Clarence P. Cowles.
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- Party assembled in front of a shelter
- Date Created
- 1920-08-08
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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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- Plane table
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The man pictured is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
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- Sunset from Dunsmoor Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08-24
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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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- Taconic Range from trail just west of Shrewsbury Pond
- Date Created
- 1921-08-13
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Pictured in the photo is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
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- Tent in Cooley Glen
- Date Created
- 1918?
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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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- Three men sitting near the trail
- Date Created
- 1914
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The man on the far right may be Herbert Wheaton Congdon. This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd...
Show moreThe man on the far right may be Herbert Wheaton Congdon. This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
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- West from Mount Abraham at sunrise
- Date Created
- 1918-09
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Pictured in this photograph is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
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- West from the westerly end of the Nebraska Notch Trail to Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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Pictured in this image is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
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