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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- Mount Ellen from "Potato Hill" (Mount Abraham) - looking towards Monkton Ridge
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"Potato Hill" was the former name for Mount Abraham.
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- Mount Ellen from Mount Abraham
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Photo taken in Starksboro, Vermont.
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- Mountain view from Warren, Vermont
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The original photograph identifies the mountain in this image as either "Mt. Abraham or Ellen Mt. or Lincoln Mt."
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- Mule and Mount Abraham
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- 1917-08-31
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This slide is looking east at "Potato Hill" (the former name for Mount Abraham). Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
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- Northeast from the top of Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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- Potato Hill from Bristol
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The caption inscribed on the photo reads, "Potato Hill from Bristol, VT." "Potato Hill" is the former name for Mount Abraham.
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- Southerly view from Mount Abraham: September 22, 1918
- Date Created
- 1918-09-22
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- Summit of Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1918-08
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- Tucker party on Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1920
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Colored by Mrs. Perry in February or March, 1929.
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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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- A view of Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1917-09-22
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- Voter's party on a Mount Abraham trail
- Date Created
- 1921-08
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Pictured are: Voter, Taylor and Trukington on the trail. Negative done by Professor Voter.
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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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- Westerly view from Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1918
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Photo taken in the early morning.