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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- Carmel Camp - elevation 2800 feet at sunrise
- Date Created
- 1936-08-03
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- Carmel Camp - note hedgehog chews!
- Date Created
- 1922-08
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- Carmel Camp porcupine chews
- Date Created
- 1922-08
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- The Carpenters
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- The Carpenters
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- Cave of the Winds
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- Cave of the Winds
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- Central Vermont Railway after the flood
- Date Created
- 1929-02-14
- Description
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Negative and slide by Clark.
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- Champlain Panorama
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- Champlain Panorama
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A view of Camel's Hump in the distance.
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- Champlain Panorama
- Date Created
- 1917-09-23
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- Champlain Panorama
- Date Created
- 1918
- Description
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Slide colored by Miss Peck.
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- Chilcoot Pass from Beaver Meadows
- Date Created
- 1921-10-01
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- Chittenden Reservoir from Grand View on Mount Carmel
- Date Created
- 1921-08
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- Clarence Cowles looking at the White Mountains from Molly Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
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- Clarence P. Cowles on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-02-18
- Description
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The original title states that Mr. Cowles is from Burlington, Vermont.
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- Clarendon Gorge looking North
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Description
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There is now a suspension bridge that crosses this gorge.
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- Cleared hill and fence
- Date Created
- 1914
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This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
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- Cliffs on Mount Mansfield's Forehead Trail - second terrace
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Cliffs on the Underhill Trail to Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1915