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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- Alice Dean at Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1923-08-30
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- Burtis, Cowles, Mr. Badgley (?) and Chris at Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08-02
- Description
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The original title states that this was image was colored by Mrs. Perry in 1924 or 1926.
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge from the rear
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge from trail to the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08-12
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1919
- Description
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The two men in the image are not identified. Photograph taken from the front approach to the lodge.
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge under construction
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Interior of the Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1919?
- Title
- Near the Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
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- The nose of Mount Mansfield from the Elihu B. Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Snowshoe trail on Mount Mansfield from the chin to Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1929
- Description
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The photo's negative was done by Louis Puffer. This photo won Second Prize Class B in the Green Mountain Club 1929 photo contest.
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- Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1926-04-10
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- Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1926-04
- Description
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The negative of this slide was done by Louis Puffer.
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- Taft Lodge and snow
- Date Created
- 1926-04-10
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- Taft Lodge in Summer
- Title
- Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1935-08-09