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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- L.L. Little in a camp pit on Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1920-02-22
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- Lake and mountain view
- Date Created
- 1926-08-06
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- Lake Champlain at sunset from Katherine Knoll on the New Trail to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Lake Mansfield Trout Club
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Lake of the Clouds
- Description
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Slide made and colored by Beselers and later recolored in March 1929 by Mrs. Perry.
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- Lake of the Clouds from Mount Mansfield's Adam's apple
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- 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
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- Lake Pleiad Lodge
- Date Created
- 1919-09
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- 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."
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- Laura Woodward Camp - 1.3 miles North of Jay Peak
- Date Created
- 1933-06
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- Laurence and Alberta Dean on Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1930
- Description
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Photo taken in July or August 1930.
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- Leach and Warren making packs on the Mount Mansfield nose
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Lesage and his bride on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1918
- Description
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In the background is the North Hut on Couching Lion. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump. Negative done by Lesage, coloring done by "K" in February of 1929.
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- Lesage party's tent in Nebraska Notch
- Date Created
- 1917-08-22
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- Lincoln - Warren Pass looking North
- Date Created
- 1919?
- Description
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Pictured in this image are Herbert W. Congdon and Gilbert Smith. The Lincoln-Warren Pass is also called "Lincoln Gap" or "Lincoln-Warren Gap."