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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- Theron Dean winter hiking with pack in Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1917-02-17
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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."
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- 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."
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- Theron S. Dean and party
- Date Created
- 1914
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- Three men and a ladder
- Date Created
- 1914
- Description
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This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
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- Three men sitting near the trail
- Date Created
- 1914
- Description
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The man on the far right may be Herbert Wheaton Congdon. This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd...
Show moreThe man on the far right may be Herbert Wheaton Congdon. This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
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- Three Shanties Camp looking southwest from the trail
- Date Created
- 1921-08
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The person in this image is unidentified.
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- The throat of of Mount Mansfield from Barnes Camp
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Description
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The person on the road in this image is not identified.
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- Thunderstorm
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Original photograph and slide by "Snowflake" Bentley. Colored by "K."
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- Tin huts on Camel's Hump
- Date Created
- 1919?
- Description
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- The top of Mount Mansfield
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The slide negative was done by Puffer.
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- Trail between Forest City and Montclair Glen
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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- Trail building 1 - the prospect
- Date Created
- 1920
- Description
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This image is the first in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection.
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- Trail building 2 - sawing logs
- Date Created
- 1920
- Description
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This image is the second in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection.
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- Trail building 3 - rolling sawn sections away
- Date Created
- 1920
- Description
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This image is the third in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection.
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- Trail building 4: the cleared trail
- Date Created
- 1919
- Description
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This image is the fourth in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection.
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- Trail building 5 - painting blazes
- Date Created
- 1919?
- Description
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This image is the fifth in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection. The gentlemen pictured is identified in the original title as "V.", although this person looks very much like Professor Monroe. The sign in this image reads, "...
Show moreThis image is the fifth in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection. The gentlemen pictured is identified in the original title as "V.", although this person looks very much like Professor Monroe. The sign in this image reads, " Whittier Ravine ."
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- Trail from Sterling Pond to Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920
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- Trail northwards from Birchfield
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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- Trail on the north slope of Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Tree and Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the South
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.