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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- 30 foot steel tower on Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1921
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- 30 foot tower on Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1921
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- Bolton Long Trail sign, looking East at Bolton
- Date Created
- 1923-05-23
- Description
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The sign in this image reads: " A footpath in the wilderness Long Trail." Milemarkers attached to the sign read: "Killington 82 M, Camel's Hump 4.5 M, Massachusetts State Line 181.6 M, Montclair Glen 6.5 M, Lincoln Mt. 25.8, Dunsmoor Lodge 5.6 M, Summit Bolton Mt. 6.7 M, Lake Mansfield 9.8 M,...
Show moreThe sign in this image reads: " A footpath in the wilderness Long Trail." Milemarkers attached to the sign read: "Killington 82 M, Camel's Hump 4.5 M, Massachusetts State Line 181.6 M, Montclair Glen 6.5 M, Lincoln Mt. 25.8, Dunsmoor Lodge 5.6 M, Summit Bolton Mt. 6.7 M, Lake Mansfield 9.8 M, Summit 15.4 M, Mt. Mansfield Taft Lodge 17.2 M." The negative was made by Theron Dean on May 6, 1923 and it was colored by Mrs. Perry on February of 1929.
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- Bolton Mountain and Mansfield from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) in Duxbury, Vermont
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Bolton Mountain Tower
- Date Created
- 1921
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- Bolton Window
- Date Created
- 1925
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
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- Camel's Hump from a ruined mill clearing near Dunsmoor Lodge on Bolton
- Date Created
- 1920-08-24
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The person in the image is not identified. Camel's Hump was also referred to as "Couching Lion."
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- Camel's Hump from lookout north of Dunsmoor Lodge on Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- Camp 4 on Bolton Mountain
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The sign in the middle of the image reads "Trout Club" and points to the right.
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- Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from a Bolton Mountain trail
- Date Created
- 1917-07
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from a tree on Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1921-10-24
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the top of Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1921-10-24
- Description
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Original title cites "Dunsmoor and Dean" most likely referring to the Dunsmoor Lodge. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Couching Lion from Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-07-28
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Mount Mansfield from a lookout on the north side of Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Mount Mansfield from Bolton Tower
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
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- Rabbit on Bolton Trail
- Date Created
- 1915-01-02
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- Round Top and Bolton Mountain looking South from the Mount Mansfield forehead
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Tower on Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1935