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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- "Beauty and the Beast" - Pete and Mrs. ? at the Camel's Hump Club Hut
- Date Created
- 1919
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
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- 3 Huts on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump. Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in February 1929.
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- Alex putting out a fire at Camp Necessity
- Date Created
- 1922
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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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- Alice Dean at Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1923-08-30
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- Approach to Birch Lodge from the North
- Date Created
- 1919
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- Approach to Cooley Glen from the South
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Description
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Pictured is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
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- Bath time at the lodge
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Both the person and lodge are unidentified.
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- Battell Lodge on Lincoln Mountain
- Date Created
- 1914-07-01
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- Battell Shelter
- Date Created
- 1917-08
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A view of the Battell shelter from the North East.
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- Birch Glen Lodge - 5.5 miles from Glen Ellen
- Date Created
- 1935-08-04
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- Birch Lodge from the trail to Beane's Farm
- Date Created
- 1917-08
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- Bolton Lodge
- Date Created
- 1935-08-07
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- Bolton Lodge exterior
- Date Created
- 1934
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- Bolton Mountain Lodge
- Date Created
- 1928
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in February or March, 1929.
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- Bourn Pond from camp
- Date Created
- 1921-08
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- Boyce Lodge
- Date Created
- 1926-08
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- The Bride: Mrs. LeSage on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1918
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.