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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- 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 from Molly Stark's Balcony looking at Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- North from Mount Woodrow Wilson
- Date Created
- 1918-09
- Title
- North from the site of the old hotel on Mount Killington
- Date Created
- 1921-08-08
- Title
- North from the trail down into the Lincoln Warren Pass
- Date Created
- 1918-09
- Title
- North Hut on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Description
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The words on the shelter read: "1912 Camels Hump Club." "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- North knoll on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1914-09
- Description
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The person in the image is Guy McCorkle. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- North to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the Worcester Lookout
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Title
- North toward Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from Champlain Panorama
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Northbound from Boyce Lodge
- Date Created
- 1926
- Description
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The people in this image are identified as: Miss Murphy, Connie, and Helen. The person named "Connie" may be Connie Gilbert.
- Title
- Northeast from the Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1926-09
- Title
- Northeast from the top of Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Title
- Northern Pileated Woodpecker
- Description
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Image created by L.W. Brounell of Paterson N.J.
- Title
- Northern view from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1918-08
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Northwest from the east side of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) at sunset
- Date Created
- 1917-09
- Description
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A note on the original image points out the Camel's Hump Club camp. Couching Lion is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- The nose of Mount Mansfield from the Elihu B. Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08
- Title
- Noyes Pond Lodge
- Date Created
- 1921-08-06