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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- Daniel Webster Marker erected by the Stratton Mountain Club on August 10, 1915
- Date Created
- 1915-08-10
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The marker reads: "This rock marks the spot where Daniel Webster spoke to about 15000 people at Whig Convention July 7 & 8, 1840."
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- Davidson, Miss Cooley, Allen Smith, Professor Monroe, Gilbert Smith at a work party on Mount Wilson
- Date Created
- 1918-08
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- Dead trees on Mount Mansfield
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Negative colored by Mrs. Perry.
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- Dean and measuring wheel
- Date Created
- 1916-09
- Description
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Negative possibly by Prior. Photo possibly taken near Birch Glen. Colored by Mrs. Perry in March 1929.
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- Dean and party on Lincoln Mountain
- Date Created
- 1914-07-01
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The people in this photograph are identified as: "Mr. Chittenden, Dean, Mrs. Chittenden, Mrs. Coules, Miss VanPatten, and Mr. Wiches." The sign reads, "Lincoln Mt. 4078 ft."
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- Dean at the end of the Professor Monroe Skyline Trail in Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-02-17
- Description
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The sign in this image reads "Stark Mountain, Birch Glen Lodge, Crouching Lion" with arrows pointing away from Dean. The sign also reads "Lincoln Mountain."
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- Dean Cave on the North side of General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1935-08-04
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- Dean leaving Ed Follans' bee's saw mill for Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-02-17
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camels Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dean walking along trees on Mount Hunger
- Date Created
- 1921-10-02
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- Dean with axe on mountain summit
- Date Created
- 1924-11-10
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- Deer Leap Lodge at Sherburne Pass
- Date Created
- 1921?
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- Deer on Mount Mansfield
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- Dense forest
- Date Created
- 1914
- Description
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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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- Dense trees and sky
- Date Created
- 1914
- Description
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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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- Descending Burnt Rock
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Slide recolored by Mrs. Perry in March 1929.
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- The deserted village of Griffith - near charcoal kilns
- Date Created
- 1912-07-03