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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- At Birch Glen Camp
- Date Created
- 1916-09
- Description
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Pictured are Olden Paris, Theron S. Dean, and William Seymour Monroe drying out after a storm.
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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
- Description
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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."
- Title
- 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."
- Title
- Dean leaving Ed Follans' bee's saw mill for Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-02-17
- Title
- Dean walking along trees on Mount Hunger
- Date Created
- 1921-10-02
- Title
- Dean with axe on mountain summit
- Date Created
- 1924-11-10
- Title
- Johnson School on Glacier Boulder
- Description
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Those in the party pictured here are Mr. Cherrie and Theron Dean.
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- Man and boy on a rock clearing
- Date Created
- 1926
- Description
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The man and boy pictured here may be Theron and Burtis Dean.
- Title
- Montclair Lodge
- Date Created
- 1919-08
- Description
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Pictured in this image are (from left to right): Gilbert Smith, Allen Smith, Theron Dean, Professor William Seymour Monroe, Miss Monroe, Herbert W. Congdon, Smith, Unknown, James P. Taylor, and Clarence P. Cowles.
- Title
- Paris and Woodruff (fallen) on Camel's Hump - Dean standing and laughing
- Date Created
- 1915-01-03
- Description
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
- Title
- Snowshoers on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1915-01-03
- Description
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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)
- Date Created
- 1915-01-03
- Description
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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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- Theron Dean emerging from the cave he discovered
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Title
- Theron Dean on the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1918-02-16
- Description
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The original description states that this photo was colored by "_____(?)" and "retouched by K. Feb. '29." It also mentions another photo titled "Dean on Chin, Mt. Mansfield 2.16.1918 (by Dean)" which may may indicate that the photo pictured here was also taken on February 16, 1918.
- Title
- Theron Dean winter hiking with pack in Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-02-17
- Description
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Original notation for the slide's coloring stated: "Elevation 3430 ft. Had red and black blaid mackinaw. Blue or black cap. Brown tote bag. Leather straps over shoulders can make white or red tops to stockings." This slide was later colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Title
- Theron Dean winter hiking with pack in Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-02-17
- Description
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on March 26, 1929. Original notation for the slide's coloring stated: "Elevation 3430 ft. Had red and black blaid mackinaw. Blue or black cap. Brown tote bag. Leather straps over shoulders can make white or red tops to stockings."
- Title
- Theron Dean winter hiking with pack in Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-02-17
- Description
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on March 26, 1929. Original notation for the slide's coloring stated: "Elevation 3430 ft. Had red and black blaid mackinaw. Blue or black cap. Brown tote bag. Leather straps over shoulders can make white or red tops to stockings."
- Title
- Theron S. Dean and party
- Date Created
- 1914