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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Miniature of Man with tent in a clearing
Man with tent in a clearing
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    • Date Created: 1914
    • Description: 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.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Wooded campsite
    Wooded campsite
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      • Date Created: 1914
      • Description: 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.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Congdon and men around a campfire
      Congdon and men around a campfire
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        • Date Created: 1914
        • Description: 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.
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Three Musketeers and music
        Three Musketeers and music
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          • Description: Pictured are (from left to right): Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth, and Kathleen Norris. Miss Robbins and Hilda Kurth were teachers, and Miss Robbins attended Middlebury College. These three were the first women to hike the entirety of the Long Trail. They covered 280 miles in 27 days.
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Caretaker on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) preparing to cook a porcupine
          Caretaker on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) preparing to cook a porcupine
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            • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Shattuck Lodge
            Shattuck Lodge
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              • Description: The original image image contains a note stating that the original image is from Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier, Vermont.
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of William Seymour Monroe at the Battell Shelter
              William Seymour Monroe at the Battell Shelter
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                • Date Created: 1917-07-22 00:00:00
                • Description: Taken on a Sunday afternoon.
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Foresters Cabin on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
                Foresters Cabin on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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                  • Date Created: 1926-02
                  • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Man sitting in front of a cabin
                  Man sitting in front of a cabin
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                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Hiking party camp cooking
                    Hiking party camp cooking
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                      • Date Created: 1933-06-18 00:00:00
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs