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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- Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) looking west from the summit
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump. The original slides notes the shadow of Camels Hump over Huntington, Vermont at morning.
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- Couching Lion from Bolton Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-07-28
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Couching Lion from the East
- Date Created
- 1926
- Description
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The date given in the original title is Friday, August 25-28, 1926. These dates most likely refer to the dates of the hiking trip on which the photograph was taken. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Couching Lion from the East
- Date Created
- 1926
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Cowles and L.L. Little going up the north side of the chin on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-02-21
- Title
- Cowles and Little climbing the Taft Trail - Mount Madonna in the distance
- Date Created
- 1920-02-20
- Title
- Cowles and Little on Lake of the Clouds
- Date Created
- 1920-02-21
- Description
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The chin of Mount Mansfield appears in the background.
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- Crest of Lincoln Mountian in winter
- Date Created
- 1921-02-17
- Title
- Dead trees on Mount Mansfield
- Description
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Negative colored by Mrs. Perry.
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1917-08
- Description
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The boys in this photo are identified as Lyman and Rodgers Burnham. This panorama on Stark Mountain is 14 miles south of Camels Hump. The mountain in the distance is Camels Hump (previously called "Couching Lion").
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- Dirt road along a river
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- Dirt road and mountain gap
- Date Created
- 1914
- Description
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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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- Dome of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from Camel's Hump Club Hut
- Description
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The photo's original title notes that the dome is 4,083 feet.
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- East from a Mount Horrid cliff
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Title
- East from Dean Shelter
- Date Created
- 1926
- Description
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
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- East from the Killington Lookout on Mount Roosevelt
- Date Created
- 1920?