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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- Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1926-05-20
- Description
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Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?). Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on November 16, 1924.
- Title
- Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1926-05-20
- Description
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Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?).
- Title
- Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1926-05-20
- Description
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Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?).
- Title
- Cowles and Little in camp at Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
- Title
- Jay Peak, Belvidere Mountain, and Smugglers' Notch from the road near Mount Mansfield's nose
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- The King Rock at Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1914-09-03
- Description
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The person pictured may be Willis Barnes.
- Title
- L.L. Little in a camp pit on Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
- Title
- Little digging camp at Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920-02-21
- Title
- Morse's Pond and skidway - old road from new road to Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920-08-02
- Description
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This photo depicts a logging operation near Smugglers' Notch.
- Title
- Mount Mansfield lips and chin as well as Vermont Hotel
- Description
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Photo taken from the nose of Mount Mansfield. Also visible is the chin of Smugglers' Notch. This building is also referred to as "Summit House."
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- Mr. and Mrs. and Edson Bigelow at Smugglers' Notch Camp
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Slide where King Rock fell on Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1914-09-03
- Title
- Smugglers' Notch
- Description
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Smugglers are said to have hidden in a cave in this notch. They were attempting to escape revenue officers war of 1812. Both the cave and the notch itself later took the name "Smugglers'."
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- Smugglers' Notch cliffs from Mould's Trail to Sterling Pond
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Smugglers' Notch from a cliff on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1937
- Title
- Smugglers' Notch from Jeffersonville - elevation 2161 feet
- Date Created
- 1937
- Title
- Smugglers' Notch from the road to Barnes Camp
- Date Created
- 1920-08-04