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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- Peru Pike at Long Trail crossing
- Date Created
- 1921-08
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- Picnic at the Battell Lodge
- Date Created
- 1914-07-01
- Description
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Pictured are Mr. and Mrs. Chittenden, and Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, and one unidentified person.
- Title
- Pico 3,967 feet
- Date Created
- 1924-11-10
- Title
- Pico Peak in winter from the West
- Description
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It is thought that the negative was done Dr. Marshall and the slide was colored by Beselers, although the original title included question marks after these two names.
- Title
- Pico Pond from Pico Mountain
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Title
- Plane table
- Description
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The man pictured is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
- Title
- Pleiad Lake
- Description
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Colored by Mrs. Perry in February, 1929.
- Title
- Plymouth from the east
- Description
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Negative by Richardson. Colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Title
- Pond and clouds
- Title
- Potato Hill from Bristol
- Description
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The caption inscribed on the photo reads, "Potato Hill from Bristol, VT." "Potato Hill" is the former name for Mount Abraham.
- Title
- Potvins Fork on the Halfway House Trail to Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Professor Buchanan and Andy Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
- Date Created
- 1929-09
- Description
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Pictured here is Professor Buchanan and a boy that is identified elsewhere in this collection as Andy Buchanan. The original slide states that Andy is here 2 1/2 years old and that they have walked two of the four miles to the lodge. Slide done by Clark on January 2, 1930.
- Title
- Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1923-08-22
- Description
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Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1923-08-22
- Description
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Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1923-08-22
- Description
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Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.