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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- Jack Frey looking North from Burnt Rock
- Date Created
- 1918-08
- Description
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Colored by either Congdon or Mrs. Perry.
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- Jay Peak, Belvidere Mountain, and Smugglers' Notch from the road near Mount Mansfield's nose
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Jeffersonville Depot
- Date Created
- 1920-02-20
- Title
- Journey's End Cabin
- Date Created
- 1933
- Description
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One of the men in this photo (it is not clear which one) is identified as "Joslin." The sign on the cabin reads "Journey's End."
- Title
- Killington from Pico Tower
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Title
- The King Rock at Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1914-09-03
- Description
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The person pictured may be Willis Barnes.
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- L.L. Little in a camp pit on Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
- Title
- Lake and mountain view
- Date Created
- 1926-08-06
- Title
- Lake Mansfield Trout Club
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Lake of the Clouds from Mount Mansfield's Adam's apple
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Lake of the Clouds from the Mount Mansfield Adam's apple
- Date Created
- 1920-08-12
- Description
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Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
- Title
- Lake Placid at sunset - near an outlet
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Title
- Lake Pleiad at sunset
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Description
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Photo taken near the outlet of Pleiad Lake.
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- Lake Pleiad Lodge
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Title
- Last stretch up the south side of Camel's Hump
- Date Created
- 1922
- Description
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
- Title
- Leach and Warren making packs on the Mount Mansfield nose
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Leverett Smith and Herbert Wheaton Congdon at lunch on Mount Mansfield's Old Long Trail
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Description
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Photo taken 1/2 a mile away from the the Needle's Eye.
- Title
- Leverett Smith and porcupine at Dunsmoor Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08-25
- Title
- Leverett Smith at a clearing on the trail north of Dunsmoor Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08-25