Long Trail Photographs
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 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.
The original slides can be viewed in the Dean and Congdon collections at the University of Vermont Silver Special Collections Library. More information about the Long Trail can be obtained from the Green Mountain Club. The slides were scanned by the University's Landscape Change Program with the generous support of the National Science Foundation. The digitized photographs also appear in the Landscape Change image database at: http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/
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John L. Sewall at Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) Cabin
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- Date Created: 1921
- Description: Sign on cabin reads "Camels Hump Club." "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Professor Monroe at Battell Lodge (north side)
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- Date Created: 1917-07-22 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Camp Thendara's
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- Date Created: 1929
- Description: Pictured in this image are: Professor Louis Puffer on the left, Major Jenlas in the center and Bob Aikon on the right. Negative by Puffer. Slide done by Eldred in September, 1931. Colored by Mrs. Perry in September 1931.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Mellinger H. Henry of Dickinson Heights Jersey City at Glen Ellen
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- Description: Slide colored by "Mrs. KY" in 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Journey's End Cabin
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- Date Created: 1933
- Description: One of the men in this photo (it is not clear which one) is identified as "Joslin." The sign on the cabin reads "Journey's End."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Shattuck Lodge or Mould's Shelter
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- Date Created: 1921-10-01 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Interior of theThree Shanties Camp
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- Date Created: 1921-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Lyman and Rogers Burnham at Birch Lodge
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- Date Created: 1917-09
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Trustees of the Green Mountain Club at Shrewsbury Pond (Spring Lake)
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- Date Created: 1921-03-12 00:00:00
- Description: "Shrewsbury Pond" is former name for Spring Lake in the Town of Shrewsbury.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs