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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- Shadow of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) at sunrise over Huntington Center, Vermont
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Sheep and Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Sheep and Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) looking South from Mount Mansfield
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Signs at the north end of the Monroe Skyline Trail
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Signs read: "Burnt Rock Mt. / Fayston Pass," "Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)," "Callahan's / No. Duxbury," and "The Monroe Skyline Trail."
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- Snowshoers on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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- 1915-01-03
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The names of five of the snowshoers are, Dean, Paulsen, Woodriff, Arms, and Olden Paris. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Snowshoers on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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- 1915-01-03
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The names of five of the snowshoers are, Dean, Paulsen, Woodriff, Arms, and Olden Paris. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- South from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) Lookout on the Couching Lion Monroe Trail
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- 1919-08
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- South from Dunsmoor Lodge - Camel's Hump in the distance
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- 1920-08
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- Summit of Camel's Hump
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Pictured are Mr. Dockham, Mrs. Dockham of Worcester, Massachusetts and an unknown individual. Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- Summit of Camels Hump
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Pictured are Mr. Dockham, Mrs. Dockham of Worcester, Massachusetts and an unknown individual. Camels Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- Summit of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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- 1914-09
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Sunset from Katharine Knoll on the New Trail to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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- 1919-09
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Sunset over Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the East
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- 1926-05-06
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Theron S. Dean scouting a trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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The original title of this photo notes that it was a gift from Theron S. Dean. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Tin huts on Camel's Hump
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- 1919?
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- Tree and Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the South
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- The two spirits of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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- 1926-09-19
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The women in the photo are not identified. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- The two spirits of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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The women in the photo are not identified. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- View of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- View of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.