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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- Lyman Burnham and Captain Congdon looking north from Mount Abraham to Mount Ellen
- Date Created
- 1918
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- Lyman Burnham looking North from Mount Abraham at Mount Ellen and General Stark Mountain
- Date Created
- 1918-08-29
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- Mad River Lookout
- Date Created
- 1918-08
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- Madonna Mountain from Whiteface Mountain near the peak
- Date Created
- 1921-10-01
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- Man and mountaintop view
- 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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- Man at summit
- 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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- Man behind ledge and mountain view
- 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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- Mansfield from the West
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- Men looking out at ridgeline
- 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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- Mist and rock face
- Date Created
- 1940
- 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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- Molly Stark Balcony
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- Monastery and Killington from Silent Cliff
- Date Created
- 1921-07-31
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- Monroe and Farr on Burnt Rock
- Date Created
- 1920
- Description
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Slide made and colored by Beseler Co. and recolored by Mrs. Perry in March, 1929.
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- Mount Abraham
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The caption on the photo reads "View at West Lincoln, VT - Potato Hill in the distance." "Potato Hill" was the former name for Mount Abraham.
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- Mount Abraham
- Date Created
- 1924
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- Mount Abraham and Eldore Atkins house from the West
- Date Created
- 1917
- Title
- Mount Abraham from cliff panorama
- Date Created
- 1918-09
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- Mount Abraham from the South
- Date Created
- 1929-02-01