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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- Near the Mount Manfield Adam's apple
- Date Created
- 1919
- Description
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This slide negative was done by Puffer.
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- North from Malcolm Graeme
- Date Created
- 1918-08
- Description
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In the distance are Camel's Hump (also called "Couching Lion") and Mount Mansfield.
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- North of the chin on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Description
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Pictured are: Smith, Leverett T. Smith, and Leach.
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- The nose of Mount Mansfield from the Elihu B. Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- On the forehead of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1919
- Title
- Party in front of rock face on Mount Mansfield
- Description
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The inscription at the bottom of this photo reads: "(uninteligble) Mt. Mansfield Vt. Photo (uninteligble)."
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- Potvins Fork on the Halfway House Trail to Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Ralf Heartwell climbing the Mount Mansfield nose
- Date Created
- 1920
- Title
- Rock near Needle's Eye on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Description
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Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
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- Sheep and Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) looking South from Mount Mansfield
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Smugglers' Cave on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Description
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Pictured is Leverett Smith.
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- Smugglers' Notch from a cliff on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1937
- Title
- Snowshoe trail on Mount Mansfield from the chin to Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1929
- Description
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The photo's negative was done by Louis Puffer. This photo won Second Prize Class B in the Green Mountain Club 1929 photo contest.
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- Snowshoers at the Mount Mansfield chin and Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds
- Date Created
- 1926-04
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- South from cliff lookout on Mount Mansfield's Forehead Trail
- Date Created
- 1920-08-19
- Title
- South from the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08-12
- Title
- Sterling Pond and Mount Mansfield from Madonna lookout
- Date Created
- 1919?
- Title
- Sterling Range from the trail to Mount Mansfield's Adams apple
- Date Created
- 1920-02-21
- Title
- Summit House and cow on Mount Mansfield
- Description
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This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."