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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- Fish party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1914-08-17
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Fish Party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1914
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- Five girls from Montpelier on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1914-10-25
- Description
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Identified in this photo are: "Miss Raymond of Thetford, VT; Miss Wheeler of South Woodbury, VT; Miss Bassett of North Andover, MA; Miss Fiske of Montpelier, VT; Miss Crocker of North Hyde Park, VT; "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Foresters Cabin on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1926-02
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Forestline and clouds
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- Four men at marker 592
- Description
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The photo is attributed to Puffer and the slide to Eldred. The original title seems to indicate that two of the men pictured are Roy Buchanan his brother-in-law Hardy Puffer. The slide was colored by Mrs. Perry in June 1933.
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- Frost on Jay Peak
- Description
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Negative by Richardson of Newport. Slide made for him Standard Slide Corp. 209 w. 48th N.Y.C.
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- Glastonbury Camp East of Bennington - 3600 foot elevation
- Description
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The original title states that the camp faces South and that there is a "fine view South." Those identified in the picture are: "Puffer in pajamas at corner," Major Jenks, and Bob Aiken. The original negative belonged to "Puffer." The slide was colored in September, 1931.
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- Glen Ellen Lodge
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- Glen Ellen Lodge
- Date Created
- 1917-07-01
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- Glen Ellen Lodge from the North
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Description
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Pictured are: George Parmelee, Herbert Wheaton Congdon, Gilbert Smith and Leverett Smith (ages 14 and 12).
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- Glen Ellen Lodge with Mount Ellen in the background
- Date Created
- 1931-08-03
- Description
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One of the men pictured may be Joseph Battell.
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- Going up the Needle's Eye on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1935-08-09
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- Governor Clement Camp, 5 miles South of Rutland
- Description
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The gentlemen in the photo are: Major Jenks (left) and either Bob Aiken or Puffer (right). The photo was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Field. The negative was done by Puffer, the slide by Eldred, and the coloring by Mrs. Perry.
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- Helen Buck of Staten Island drinking on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Henry Davis House
- Date Created
- 1918-08
- Title
- Henry Davis House - 7 miles east of Bristol
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Title
- Henry Davis House near Dean
- Date Created
- 1917-09
- Title
- Herbert Wheaton Congdon at Cooley Glen
- Date Created
- 1919-09