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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- South from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) Lookout on the Couching Lion Monroe Trail
- Date Created
- 1919-08
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- South from Dunsmoor Lodge - Camel's Hump in the distance
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Description
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
- Title
- South from Mount Ellen looking toward Bread Loaf Mountain
- Description
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Negative and slide by Robert Wilkinson.
- Title
- South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08-12
- Title
- South slope of Mount Hunger
- Date Created
- 1921-10-02
- Title
- South trail through the high pastures South of Bromley Mountain
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Title
- Southerly view from Mount Abraham: September 22, 1918
- Date Created
- 1918-09-22
- Title
- Southwards on the trail from Nurian Spring
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Title
- Spring at Cooley Glen
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Title
- Spring in a clearing 1 1/2 miles up Pico from Sherburne Pass
- Date Created
- 1921-08-08
- Description
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Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
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- Sterling Pond
- Date Created
- 1926-03-19
- Title
- Sterling Pond and Mount Mansfield from Madonna lookout
- Date Created
- 1919?
- Title
- Sterling Range from the trail to Mount Mansfield's Adams apple
- Date Created
- 1920-02-21
- Title
- Stone hut on Killington
- Description
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A note on the original photograph states that Congdon received a print of this image from "Miss Lye" in September 1931.
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- Stratton Mountain from Stratton Pond looking East
- Description
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The elevation at the point where this photo was taken is 3859 feet. The slide was colored by "K." in Feb, 1929.