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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Pages
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- Looking North from the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
- Title
- Looking North from where the Long Trail crosses the road at Middlebury Gap
- Date Created
- 1921-07-31
- Title
- Looking south at Mount Ethan Allen
- Date Created
- 1917-09
- Title
- Looking south from Breadloaf Glen
- Date Created
- 1918-09-01
- Title
- Looking south from Slash Rock
- Description
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The original photograph states that the location of this photo is ". 1/3 miles south of Burut Road."
- Title
- Looking South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-02-21
- Title
- Looking South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
- Description
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Pictured in this photograph is Clarence P. Cowles.
- Title
- Looking South from the second knoll of the New Trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1919-08
- Description
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The person pictured here is identified as Leverett Smith. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Looking toward mountain summit
- Date Created
- 1926
- Description
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The person in this slide is unidentified. The summit may be Camel's Hump (also called "Couching Lion").
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- Looking West from Killington Peak at Mendon Peak
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Title
- Looking West from pass to the north of Mount Mansfield's chin
- Date Created
- 1920-02-21
- Title
- Looking West from the Adirondack Lookout on General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1918
- Title
- Looking West from under Mount Mansfield's chin
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Looking West toward Bristol from the Battell Lodge attic window
- Date Created
- 1917-08