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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- At the foot of zig-zags on General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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- Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Description
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The sign reads "Birch Glen 3 m." and has a G.M.C. (Green Mountain Club) marking.
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- Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Description
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The sign reads "Birch Glen 3 m." and has a G.M.C. (Green Mountain Club) marking.
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- Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Description
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The sign reads "Birch Glen 3 m." and has a G.M.C. (Green Mountain Club) marking.
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- Clarence P. Cowles on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Description
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The original title states that Mr. Cowles is from Burlington, Vermont.
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- Dean Cave on the North side of General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1935-08-04
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camels Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Looking South from Burnt Rock Mountain at Mount Ellen and General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1918-08
- Description
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Pictured in this photograph are: Allen Smith, Gilbert Smith, and Henry Freu.
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- Looking West from the Adirondack Lookout on General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1918
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- Loveland and Burtis Dean at the Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1922-07-30
- Description
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The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion).
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- Lyman Burnham looking North from Mount Abraham at Mount Ellen and General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1918-08-29
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- Northeast from the Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1926-09