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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- Cooley Lodge interior
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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The person in this photo is identified as George Parmelee. A sign on the wall reads "Cooley Glen Lodge: This Lodge is the gift of Professor Will S. Monroe and the New York Section of the Green Mt. Club. Members and friends to have use of same [illegible] and hang up the cooking utensils before...
Show moreThe person in this photo is identified as George Parmelee. A sign on the wall reads "Cooley Glen Lodge: This Lodge is the gift of Professor Will S. Monroe and the New York Section of the Green Mt. Club. Members and friends to have use of same [illegible] and hang up the cooking utensils before you leave. Chop as much wood as you use. Leave the camp in good condition. The Green Mt. Club."
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- Title
- Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) and South Hut
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Cowles and Little in camp at Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
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- Cowles building a lunch fire at Big Spring
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
- Title
- Cowles Cove Shelter
- Title
- Deer Leap Lodge at Sherburne Pass
- Date Created
- 1921?
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge from the rear
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge from trail to the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08-12
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1919
- Description
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The two men in the image are not identified. Photograph taken from the front approach to the lodge.
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- Elihu B. Taft Lodge under construction
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Emily Proctor Lodge
- Date Created
- 1918-09-01
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- Emily Proctor Lodge and Breadloaf Falls
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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- Emily Proctor Lodge as the Professor's headquarters
- Date Created
- 1918-09-01
- Description
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Slide provides a Northeast view into Breadloaf Glen.
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- Emily Proctor Lodge as the Professor's headquarters
- Date Created
- 1918-09-01
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Slide provides a Northeast view into Breadloaf Glen.
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- Emily Proctor Lodge from a northerly approach
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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- Emily Proctor Lodge in Breadloaf Glen
- Date Created
- 1918-08
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- Ernest and Alarie Lesage at their tent in Nebraska Notch
- Date Created
- 1917-08-22
- Description
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The original title includes the note: "Tent ruined by hail storm."
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- Ernest R. Lesage
- Date Created
- 1917-08-22
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Ernest R. Lesage shaving at a stop along the trail.