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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- Signs at the north end of the Monroe Skyline Trail
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Signs read: "Burnt Rock Mt. / Fayston Pass," "Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)," "Callahan's / No. Duxbury," and "The Monroe Skyline Trail."
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- Signs on a spruce at the ruins of Beaver Meadow Cabin
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The signs in this image read, Baby Stark Mt., General Stark Mt., Glen Ellen of Mount Ellen, Lincoln Mt., Couching Lion, Molly Stark Mt., Birch Glen Lodge, and Starksboro. Slide done by Chas. Beseler Co.
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- Sleeping beauties at the Pleiad Lodge
- Date Created
- 1919
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- Slide where King Rock fell on Smugglers' Notch
- Date Created
- 1914-09-03
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- Small overgrown camp
- 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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- Smugglers' Cave on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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Pictured is Leverett Smith.
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- Smugglers' Notch cliffs from Mould's Trail to Sterling Pond
- Date Created
- 1920-08
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- Smugglers' Notch from a cliff on Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1937
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- Smugglers' Notch from Jeffersonville - elevation 2161 feet
- Date Created
- 1937
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- Smugglers' Notch from the road to Barnes Camp
- Date Created
- 1920-08-04
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- Smugglers' Notch rock against which we camped
- Date Created
- 1920-02-20
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Pictured in this photo is Clarence P. Cowles.
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- Snowshoe party at Dunsmoor Lodge
- Date Created
- 1926-02-22
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Pictured in this image are (from left to right): 1) unknown, 2) Miriam Smythe, 3) Mrs. Ernest Spaulding, 4) unknown, 5) unknown, 6) Sally Smart, 7) unknown.
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- Snowshoe trail on Mount Mansfield from the chin to Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1929
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The photo's negative was done by Louis Puffer. This photo won Second Prize Class B in the Green Mountain Club 1929 photo contest.
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- Snowshoers at the Mount Mansfield chin and Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds
- Date Created
- 1926-04
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- Snowshoers looking at a mountain gap
- Date Created
- 1931
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- Snowshoers looking at a mountain gap
- Date Created
- 1931
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
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- Snowshoers on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1915-01-03
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The names of five of the snowshoers are, Dean, Paulsen, Woodriff, Arms, and Olden Paris. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- Snowshoers on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1915-01-03
- Description
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The names of five of the snowshoers are, Dean, Paulsen, Woodriff, Arms, and Olden Paris. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
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- South from cliff lookout on Mount Mansfield's Forehead Trail
- Date Created
- 1920-08-19